[azzarule]

'ning all.

Just had a friend over for a chat, baked beans on toast and a few reds.

She has been diagnosed with throat cancer, has had a large tumour out of her throat, got a scar that loooks like someone tried to slit her throat, a few lyumph nodes, and one tonsil which is apparently where it all started. She needed to have a laugh and a chat . She is unmarried and lives alone, and just needed to chat. feel so bad for her, she starts radiation therapy on Monday, every afternoon for the next 8 weeks, what a time of year for that sheeet.

Her Mum is coming over from Oz on the 22nd to be with her when she starts to feel like sheet, they told her that the first two to three weeks she will feel okay, I wonder what they define as feeling okay, might not be too bad physcially, but the emotional stress is starting to show.

She went in about 6 months ago with a swelling on her neck and the specialist said it was just a fatty tumour, no problem, she could put off surgery for months, so she did, then they go in to take it out and 5 hours of surgery later she looks like a Columbian drug lord tried to slit her throat, we were all shocked at work, at the scar, and she didn't tell us and a few days later she goes in to have a tonsil out, that's when we all started with the wtf is going on, you can't keep this to yourself, you don't need to keep this to yourself, you need to talk about what is going on, you don't have anyone else here, you can share what is happening, so all of us old Mums and guys at work have been looking after her emotional state since we found out. So tough, she is a wonderful kid, well young lady, she is a RAAFie Flight Sergeant, lovely girl, been to the sandpit and is a great kid. This sheet is not fair.

Today also had another friend who was in surgery having a breast removed, has been going through Chemo for the last3 months, jeez I feel blessed that I am healthy, and all of my loved ones are healthy.

Oh well enough doom and gloom.