Christmas - Boxing Day Stories 2017

Overnight visitors

Those lights broke down 2 days before Christmas.  I had them 2 weeks all up.

The first time ever Milo has ruined food she was not supposed to get at, at the table.  Butter Icing, yum!

 

If you read this paper, you will find out Borrelia Infection has stages like cancer if left unchecked

Helen, Marlene, Beau, Brett, Bev and Kerry visiting the man in a coma.  I sent a card with Scott after he came back.

Roger was brought out of the coma on Boxing Day in Toowoomba. Roger was discharged from Jandowae Hospital where he was born, two days ago.  He's taken a journey West via ambulance via Dalby Hospital as he has improved but I knew none of that while it was happening.  They are calling it a miracle and back from the dead but I think he hopes that death wasn't the case because there was too much of nothing there.

Post-sepsis syndrome? Too early to tell but the only main problem he has is not being able to walk properly.  Now we both own wheelie walkers.  Actually Sharon has mine at the moment because she is dying at Jan's place with lung cancer.  I haven't needed the walker since I started taking steroids full-time.  Sharon has not been given long to live and I will miss her.  The diagnosis was only 2 weeks ago but it was obvious something terrible was wrong with her.  She had already stopped eating.  She was measured at 35kg.

The circle of life has brought Roger back full circle to where he knows so many people from the past.  It seems he will have a trial living in the 3rd house on Ben's farm to see if he can manage. Zach and Red (?) have the second house because they run the property these days with Ben retired. The mind boggles at how a step-son of Roger's could end up managing a million dollar property, not that I know how much a huge farm is worth.  It was my kids who spent time with the Tanners but I guess it solved a problem for two people.   Zach isn't exactly a city person having lived in Clifton-Nobby.  The house where Roger will be is Ben's Mum's old house, perhaps the original farm house and he stays there whenever he goes out there.  Back to Jandowae - Burra Burri, with Bev for the first two weeks.  Without Bev when she goes back to work.

So happy to catch up with Cohen

I picked up Stacey and Cohen from the Caloundra bus interchange at 12:20pm and because Stacey was hungry we headed straight to the Military Jetty store. I didn't eat and neither did Cohen eat his nuggets because he wasn't hungry. But he very rarely is since starting Ritalin which is the second thing they have tried. The first was Vivanse? Cohen got expelled the day before this holiday of theirs which did not coincide with the school holidays. Apparently he spat at a teacher. He has a foul mouth and it just rolls off his tongue so easily in amongst the conversation. There was a medication change but what Brett has not told me was that things are not going very well for Cohen and the new school at all and this expulsion wasn't the first. So I can no longer assume that no news is good news.

After sitting while we talked and drank at the military jetty store we walked over to the pavillion for a cigarette and this first video is how Cohen filled the time.  Because I could not hear a lot, I didn't even hear most of the swearing during the day and the general mood of the day was actually nice and easy going so he seems just like the same old Cohen to me.  Certainly not naturally evil like B's other half seems to be suggesting.  There were no major altications in my presence.  I think I made up that word but he did have a rather graphic description of B and K having sex.

31/70 main st pialba 4655 is where they live. The lease has just been renewed for another year.


Just before this  video, I got bad pains and abandoned the car the moment it was parked.  On returning to the table where they were sitting I hear, "Did you poo yourself Nanoo?"  No, I made it in time but it was so hard to walk to the toilet block.



When he was up the beach a bit, I did get to ask Cohen who he liked best choosing between the first and the second live-in girlfriend.  He picked Paige which was a surprise to me.  I now know why he cannot live with Brett.  He does not like K.  Although B thinks that she is helping him become a better parent, I am now thinking that maybe she does not see the nice side of Cohen.  Stacey says that K does not like Cohen.  She sees a problem that needs fixing perhaps.  And she likes helping and advising maybe.  If Brett sits back and leaves the work to the women, then perhaps Mum is the best person for him even if she swears and carries on.  At least she loves her son!  The psychiatrist recommended the real mother over the real father and Stacey says that B is lazy and is happy to have K as a go-between.  St does not seem to care what Brett does (she is not emotionally attached or anything) except when it comes to Cohen and she wishes he would be more involved because he has not had Cohen enough.  It makes you wonder who is telling lies.



I kept a Rhinoceros Beetle skeleton in a box for ages waiting for the day Cohen would open it.  Today was that day.  He would not even touch it.  He recoiled with a ewww look and St said he does not like any bugs so I have been trying to desensitise him ever since..... sending photos of it to Stacey to show him and stuff like this - http://science6brhinocerosbeetle.weebly.com/interesting-facts.html

The Rhino skeleton is well and truly mangulated and gone with the rubbish truck now as in post dated addendum on Friday 20th May

More photos of Cohen Day

From Brightwater, Kawana; to Warana; to Vulva

I told you he gave notice but it seems he got his bond back and has moved out of the most advertised real estate community on local TV already.  By now he should have met up with the next co-tenant who I hope is more to his liking.  He phoned first but then ended up coming here to use the Internet and phone before he met up with this new person.  He had conveniently forgotten the Street name this time so I do not know where he is.  He is allowed to move in tonight.

I am seeing a pattern to his house moves in connection with his mobile phones.  He got a new number last week and got another sim card today.  He sure knows how to make a lot of trouble for himself.  Having to change his address on everything is bad enough but the phone number too so that his past contacts lose him and if it were me, I guess I would suspect the worst if he happened to owe money.  You and I both know that this is not a calculated evasion of his responsibility and much more likely to be related to his own personal thoughts about karma, numerology or something more psychotic.  I now have no idea how to contact him because he left me before giving me the number saying that he would phone again later.

It sounds like he has not found a job that at least pays a retainer in the time since he left here.

When he phoned from a public phonebox, at first I thought it was Brett with a cold, they sounded alike but the cold part meant - Brett would have been feeling sorry for himself because he usually is bright enough on the phone.  Anyway, it wasn't Brett feeling down, it was Scott and he sounded normal for him, but if I spoke like that it would be down-in-the dumps for me too - which is another story - except to say that I feel somewhat better today but my glands are still sore and you can add another stupid syndrome to my list too. It all started with laching eggs.

vulvodynia - yet another controversial diagnosis

And here's wonderful interactive diagram of the vulval area Have fun and mouse over the bartholan"s gland text and duct and then imagine the trip to hospital when I had to get a Bartholan's abscess removed - I wonder if that means I am minus a duct now?