Australian Sisters
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Im jealous about the snow Trish. We hae to pay thousands for a holiday to see and experience it.
Stay warm hun. I might go and sit on my patio in the sun now
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Linda do you have Skype? If you do pm me and I'll show you lol
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It's sunny and warm here in Port Macquarie!!!!
Off to my cousin's tonight for a catch-up so no more messages until Sunday probably.
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Can I just say Trish's view and the snow is awesome. What a wonderful place to live
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Crikey, snow just 2 hours drive away from me, fair dinkum. (keeping with the Aussie theme) I'm in the middle of no where and it has snowed here but always in the early hours while I'm still asleep. It always amuses me when people think this is a hot country. We're actually 93% as big as the USA mainland according to Wikipedia and America has many different climate zones.
My boys did see snow on the ground at school one day and of course they've been on school trips to the snow to ski. I left England as I hated the cold. Those days when my ears ached and nose ran from the freezing cold are a distant memory. Maybe we should move north.
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Criccccccccccckeeeeeeee. Maybe you should move north Joy. Weve been having lovely spring weather 0
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Lol you guys crack me up. Snow has finished now and all melted. Temp has rocketed from 2 degrees to 5 :-)
Jenn, enjoy your visit with your cousin.
Trish
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Im pretty disgusted by our broadcasters. For the olympics we had major coverage. Foxtel even had an extra 8 channels covering all sports. For the paralympics we're getting 3 hours on ABC
none of it live.Youd think theyd know by now we aussies would watch a cockroach race, if it was an aussie cockroach versus an international one lol. Put it in tv and we will watch. Many of these wonderful athletes have had horrendous accidents or were born with disabilities or suffered a horrendous illness and theyve fought back to represent their countries, least the broadcasters of Australia could do is show it on tv hey. Id personally rather watch both athletes who have come thru major adversity and the able bodied equally.
I think whoever gets the rights to broadcast the olympics, should as part of their deal be forced to give a guaranteed % of coverage to the paralympics (preferably a large %) Im sure after the first time they did, and they saw their ratings, theyd be keen to do so in future.
End of rant at how unfair life and broadcasters can be.
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Same as here Linda. Kiwis will watch anything especially if its against an Aussie. Have see a little as we have Sky and it was great.
Hope you all have a good day.
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Ditto: I love to watch the paralympics. Australia is going so well.
Trish we had snow here yesterday too. Not much but it was the first settling snow DS had seen. Our car doors were frozen shut this morning.
Joy, it is incredible that we live in the same council area yet the temperature zones are so different from one end to the other.
We are devestated, DS's birthday cat has disappeared. It is very skittish and we are worried something frightened it off. Fingers crossed please, that she will show up.
Have a lovely weekend. x
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you girls echo the moans of my DH and he was having a groan this morning about the fact there is no medal table up on the news bit where there was for the regualar Olympics, these people to me have alot more to work thru and i tell yas, bring back more medals and are proud to do it. the travel is harder as theyhave to make extra provisions and just because they have incapibilties, its like they dont exist, or less important. to me they deserve every medal they win. 5 channels were dedicated to the regualar Olympics on sky, you dont see one dedicated to the paraolympics, not one its all intermingled with the sports news and other sport you get anyway. not fair. i must be getting better, my fighting spirirt is back. IT SUCKS:0
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Sitting at Port Macquarie airport waiting to go home. Had a great time catching up with my cousin last night :-)
Got so much uni work to do this weekend so will be quiet...
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Morning Kylie, my daughter is in high school (Year 7). I asked her to see the school councillor but she declined. I then offered her to see a private therapist either with or without me but she says she's fine. I don't have any trouble with her at home (I was a single mother from when she was a baby 'til about 5 years ago so we have a close relationship). but she is on a 'yellow' book which means that all her teachers have to rate her behaviour for each class (This started when she got in trouble for verbally 'exploding' at another student who (as it turned out) told a joke about cancer).
Apart from this she is in all the advanced classes and yesterday I proudly watched her getting 'sworn in' to the Student Representative Council. She's a good kid - I'm lucky. She 'looks after' and 'checks' on me by making me cuppas and checking that I've taken my meds on time etc but I agree with you - the vomiting and hair loss has been hard on her.
Although there was one funny incident when she came into the bathroom, looked at me, went to say something and stopped. I asked what was up and she said "I came in to see if you wanted me to hold your hair back but deerrrrr. Is there anything else I can do ??" She has an awesome sense of humour but gets upset by stupid pages on facebook like one titled 'cancer is funny because people die'. I look sick now and she notices people staring at me which makes her uncomfortable. Atleast being a girl her and I have had some fun with wigs !! But I really don't know what else to do to support her and it scares me that me being sick is impacting her already - makes me fear for the unknowns of my future and how she will be if the worst case senario happens . . . . . . . .
I had snow here too Trish. And another MASSIVE frost this morning !! Ugggg. I know it is cold when I go to run my dogs and NONE of them want to get out of their warm kennels - they didn't even come to the front of their runs to say hello this morning - the best I got was the sound of their wagging tails in their kennels !! Bring on some warmer weather please
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Just watching wide world of sports. Mark Winterbottom won their Dad of the year and won $5000 for himself and $5000 for the charity of his choice. He's donating the whole $10000 to The National Breast Cncer Foundation cause his mum had BC when he was 10 and he just wants a cure found. What a wonderful chappy, might have to start watching v8's now lol
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I'm annoyed at the lack of coverage of the Paraolympics too! I agree with Linda - it should be part of the overall rights to have them included. While a lot of people may find it "confronting" to watch a person with diabilities compete - most of us would be cheering them on. I find them all inspiring.
Hope everyone had a great weekend, after Friday, ours warmed up a lot lol, and today is meant to be a lovely 19 degrees.
Karen - will be thinking of you as you go for scans tomorrow.
Kelpie, sounds like your DD has a great sense of humour :-)
Have a great day everyone
Trish
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I agree about the coverage of the Paralympics, considering most Channels show the same things on more than one station you would think one of them could dedicate a channel to those very inspiring athletes.
Trisha...thanks for thinking of me, scans tomorrow, results on Thursday! I always try to decipher the pictures but I think it only makes the anxiety worse!! (Doesn't stop me though LOL) It's gonna be a long week....
I hope everyone had a lovely weekend.
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i have a appointment with my BS tomorrow, so am looking forward to getting some things delt with and asking a few things. it is an early 9.15 time. been a year since i saw them, so am looking forward to it. hope everybody is ok. wet day today after a gorgeous weekend. its hard trying to keep with the medals with para olympic games, as the coverage is so poor. i find them an inspiration and i cant do what they do with all my legs and arms. they work very to achieve what they do. its quite discrimitive. really and i feel like writing an article and putting it in the paper. have a good day ladies.
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One of my very good Canberra friends, is head coach of the Paralymics team. I have seen him on telly a few times which has been a thrill. I agree too that these athletes are just an inspiration and very humbling what they can and have achieved.
Good luck tomorrow Karen. I am having an ultrasound on Thursday (no mammo just yet). Breast is very sore and is now very tender in my arm-pit. I'm trying not to read anything into this but it will be good to have the ultrasound done, so that I know what's going on.
It's raining absolute cats and dogs here. Paul goes back tomorrow. He still has this terrible cough. This has been going on since April. He was well when he arrived but has gone downhill since being home. I really think this is a 'sick' house. Anyway, he's going back to the Dr's tomorrow (this will be about his 8th visit for the same problem). His coughing is so bad that he pops his ribs out. I am besides myself with worry about him but just don't know what we can do. The Dr's just keep giving him scripts for this and that, but nothing is resolving it, just masking it. He's had a chest x-ray and it was clear (as of 2 months ago). I can't sleep with him as he just coughs all night long, or snores, gags etc. But, he was better when he was way up north in the dry air...
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Kate, maybe he's allergic to something in the air in and near your house. Pets or the type of grass, treew or flowers in the area. Id suggest trying an antihistamine and see if it makes an improvement. My sister had a couple of years where she was sick and it turned out it wa the pine trees in her back yard. they cut them down and while she still gets a bit of hayfever now and then, its nwhere near as bad as it was.
Karen fingers are crossed for Ned and/or the stable boy. I like hearing of women two timing those 2 lads.
Midnight, good luck with your BS, hope youe written down all your questions though. I always get in there and forget pretty much everything I intended to ask if I dont have a written list.
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Good luck with your visit to the bs tomorrow Midnight, I hope you get the answers to your questions.
Kate I just saw on the news that Perth is expecting damaging storms, I hope you don't get any of that!
It will be interesting to see if your DH's cough clears up when he goes back to work, I can understand how worried you must be about him. If it is the damp that's not helping him, maybe you will have to move back to Canberra lol
Trish
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Well so much for my yuck trip to the city. I have to hang around until tomorrow because my doc wants a CT of head and abdo. I've been getting some headaches as well as a numb face and hearing loss so he wants to check it out and then lately I've been getting some pain and tenderness around the gall bladder area so we are checking that out as well......sigh!......if its not one thing then it's another. Oh well, another night with my DD and fiancé is a good trade off
Love n hugs girls. Chrissy0 -
Chrissy,
Love and hugs
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Oh Chrisssy, you Karen and Midnight are all having things tomorrow. Thinking of you all and keeping everything crossed.
Yep horrible horrible storms over here and it is just cold and miserable to boot with horrible gusty winds. Really I am so over winter! but I know I'm not alone in that.
I'm applying for an 18 hour a week job as a volunteer coordinator. I know they have readvertised as they only had one applicant and she was young and not experienced. They want someone who's old(er) and that's definitely me. Gosh so much work addressing the selection criteria. I'm not getting my hopes up or anything, but will put in and see how I go. 3 days (school hours) would suit me just fine and keep me out of mischeif. I must remember that if (big if) I am offered it, that I have to ask for the time off to come to Brisbane. That'll be a deal breaker as I'm not missing out on that.
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Chrissy - ask him about a PET - I know you said you have never had one. Also a brain MRI is way better than a CT scan - no radiation for that one. Hope all is well.
Sue
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Sue neither of us think nasties but he wants to make sure that no calcium has built up on the facial nerve for the numbness and hearing loss as well as just look at the skull itself to discount any mets. This is my GP not the BS. It's only the specialist that can order an MRI. I sometimes think he is ultra careful as he said today he doesn't want to miss anything nor does he want to over scan. It is twelve months since my last abdo and head scan so he felt it time as I've complained.......lol. I do that rarely so when I do he takes note.
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Kazzie and Chrissy, I hope all is well with your scans.
Kate, good luck with your job application :-).
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Kate - just tell them you have a prearranged holiday and can't cancel the flights - it's only one day off for you isn't it?
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Karen and Chrissy: I hope you both get the best possible results !
I agree with Susie, I prefer MRI over CT. I had a MRI about 4 months ago so they have something to compare it to in the future. Fantastic detail on the pictures !
Good luck Kate - I think that kind of job would be good for your soul.
I hope you get what ypu want from your appointment Midnight !! And I agree - the coverage of the Paralympics is pathetic.
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I conned my ENT doc to give me an MRI - cost me $9 as I had reached both safety nets. My onc hadn't ordered one - he was quite surprised I got one
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Chrissy, keeping you in my thoughts xoxo
Kate, that job was made for you, keeping everything crossed for you
Trish
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