Tuesday 8 November 2005Left Masterton around 11.30am as we had heard there were roadworks just south of the Twin Bridges at the bottom of the Rimutaka Hill Road, however there was hardly any delay there at all ( Read more... )

Robyn and I are heading down to Wellington on Tuesday 8 November after lunch. She has a chest x-ray and regular 3 monthly check up. She got her bloods done last week. I bet when we ask for the blood results that they will have to go searching and even ring through to Masterton !! They never seem to make it into her patient chart. I believe ( Read more... )

Well I have just caught up with Robyn and things sound a bit better. The cream she has been putting on her legs 3 times a day is helping clear them up and they are not so irritating at the moment. Her appetite has picked up a bit and her weight loss seems to have slowed down / stopped, however she still has diarrhoea. That wouldn’t help the ( Read more... )

Apologies that this update is rather overdue ( Read more... )

Robyn had a call from Wellington Hospital Friday afternoon to say that they had to change her appointment scheduled for Tuesday 18 January 2005 as the consultant, Dr Johnson was going to be on leave. Robyn will now go down on Tuesday 1 February ( Read more... )

18 May 2004
Visit with the Registrar at Wellington Hospital

15 July 2004
CT Scan at Wellington Hospital

24 August 2004
Follow up visit with the Registrar, Dr Anna Nicholson at Wellington Hospital

23 November 2004Had an uneventful visit to Wellington Hospital for a physical check up. No strange lumps and bumps detected. An appointment ( Read more... )

Hard to believe that over a month has passed since the last post. Apologies to those following the journal entries, but after our daily trips, I did not feel like getting online much ( Read more... )

Friday afternoon 5 March 2004

The phone rings at Robyn's home.

"Can I please speak to Robyn?"

"It's Robyn speaking."

"It's Wellington Hospital here. Due to unforeseen circumstances your radiation treatment won't be started on Monday 8 March. We need you to come back down to Wellington for another simulation test at midday on Monday ( Read more... )

My mum (affectionally known as GumGum to the great and grandchildren) passed on a letter from Dorothy & Derryck for us to read. Thank you all for your best wishes. The newsletter I sent out with our Christmas cards must have been a bit of a shock for the recipients, as it was fairly short and to the point with news about all the family ( Read more... )

Robyn arranged for Shane to look after Lachlan and we dropped Fergus off at his Mum's place and then Robyn and I headed for Wellington for the simulation test at 3pm ( Read more... )