DHC Hope: Two Birthdays in One!

I am amazed at my improvement after just three rounds of chemotherapy. The third round was smooth overall with just some queasiness. I put on almost three kilograms (over 6 pounds) between my fortnightly Dr Horvath visits. My improved health is the result of the chemotherapy. Before it started I was dying, like in 2011. I am so grateful for the people who have research and developed these chemotherapies over the last 50 years or so. Though a poison, the chemotherapy has saved my life again. In the last week or so I have had good energy levels and been pretty busy.

Thursday 10 April, I chose a new GP doctor as my doctor of many years is closing his Glebe practice. I want to be able to walk to my GP. Three times in the last 10 days I have visited my physiotherapist (of 54 years practice and retiring in June) three times with lower back troubles. This now seems to be under control.

We had a busy weekend. Friday morning 11 April Barbara drove some of our family and their friends in the Tarago to Wyong (on the Central Coast). They went to celebrate the wedding of Kevin, another high school friend. Barbara looked after our granddaughter on Saturday evening while they were at the reception. They returned mid Sunday morning. (All our children have friendships continuing from their high school days.)

Meanwhile my Saturday was filled with breakfast with Lesley at Café Lattetude in Penrith to celebrate our 40 year friendship which started on Easter Sunday 1974. Back home, I spent 4 hours in the afternoon working on two reports I am drafting on governance issues that The BezCan Project is having with one of the Kamuli schools. At night, I enjoyed celebrating the Jewish Passover, modified to show the foretelling of Christ, with friends from the late 1980s from when we first attended Petersham Baptist Church.

Sunday morning I was again working on the governance reports when Barbara returned. Downstairs, preparations were in hand for the two birthdays in one: our grnaddaughter’s first birthday and our son's birthday being celebrated here at Club 55 on their actual birthday. In our family we have a few shared or near shared dates. Interesting how common it is to have shared dates in families even though there are 365 days in the year!

Sunday afternoon the birthday duo celebrated with about 25 family and friends. Enjoy these photos of our two birthdays in one happy time.