Anya (one year and four days old) wants to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a safe new year.



December was a little too eventful for us. I had a "swarm" of night sweats so moved my next appointment with Steve Palmer forward a month. Bloods look OK, LDH is fine and he could find no other lumps and bumps so I was happy again, though I'll have a CT in the next few weeks to be sure. It's just on 2 years since I was diagnosed.

Dee had a minor skirmish with atrial fibrillation (an arrhythmia of he heart) which put her in hospital for a few days and gave us quite a scare. Subsequent tests have found nothing so we're hoping that's the last of it.

Dee's sister-in-law Carolyn (Barry's wife) is still fighting an as-yet-unknown illness and she in never far from our thoughts.

We're now at Taupo Bay with Katherine and Joss and Anya. Saul is working through but will probably be up New Year's Eve.

Anya continues to provide us with much enjoyment. She is at a lovely age and finds most things and people highly entertaining.

I'm enjoying being here - its a much easier house to work on, though every task tends to take several times longer because of my lack of mobility. I tend to put a lot more thought into what tools I will need to take to do something, because it's such an effort to have to go back into the garage to get something forgotten.

I'll try swimming again in a few days.

Thank you all for the support and love you have all shown us over these last 2 years. I do read your comments - honestly - and it is really nice to hear from you and know you are thinking of us..