Monday, October 11, 2010
Holidays
In the holidays that have just been I went down to Himatangi Beach for the first week with my family and 2 friends - Tom and Jacob. It was good fun out there running through the sand dunes, building huts and whitebaiting. We managed to catch a little whitebait but not enough to feed all of us.! In the second week i had to go back to Starship to start Cycle 2 of 4 of my Chemotherapy treatment.It was a long day up there as first of all I had to have a blood test and then I had to have another Lung Functioning test to see how the Bleomycin chemotherapy drug is affecting my lungs. To the surprise of the man doing the testing and us my lung functioning had improved! so much so he even checked the machine was working properly. Bleomycin can cause damage to the lungs and because of this drug I now have to wear a medic alert bracelet all the time as I am not allowed to have full strength oxygen in my lungs.I then had to sit on the drip for 8 hours having the Chemotherapy they make you do pre and post hydration with it because of the side effects and bladder damage.Later on that night I wasnt very good, feeling sick and very tired, straight to bed with no dinner. The next day I was feeling better and we went down to the Coromandal for the rest of the week. We stayed at my Uncles house in Whangapoua.We explored the rocks and beach tried to catch fish and visited the skateparks in Coromandal and Whitianga. We also went to the Waterpark just out of Coromandal. Todd came with us for the week it was lucky he was there to help entertain me!
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FUN Hope u get better soon not long now :)
Hey Harry, Shelley here! Great blog about your holidays. Was thinking of you yesterday- hope the PNBHS testing went well cant wait to hear about it - I would have failed huh? hehehe
Hope to see you Friday but I will give Mum a call and check this is ok as our whole family has been on antibiotics since Monday with the flu and dont want to risk passing it on. Take care see you soon
- shelley
Hi Harry, that is fantastic news about your lung functioning capacity!That's no good about your tiredness, but you do seem to bounce back quickly with all the great fun you have been having at the beaches. Love Rosalee X
Hi Harry,
It was good to see that your lungs are doing well. You'll need them to cheer on NZ next time they play the Wallabies - not that NZ'll have much of a chance ... (OK, only joking, I KNOW you guys beat us last time!)
Here in melbourne it is Spring Carnival - this means that there are a lot of race meetings, the main ones are in melboourne at Flemmington race course, which is very beautiful. When you are better, you'll have to come one time with your aunt Rosalee and experience one of those race meetings. Also there are a lot of race meetings in country towns. The company your aunt Rosalee and I work for is having is end of year event at the Healsville Races. I love the country races because you can get much closer to the horses and the surrounds are very pretty. Have you seen The Castle? If not, you really should ask your mum or dad to get it out on DVD, we are going to some races in the small country town of Bonnie Doon on Boxing Day - you'll know why that's funny once you've seen The Castle.
Take care Harry, my best wishes,
Bernadette (your aunt Rosalee's colleague)
PS: are you interested in stamp collecting at all? I know it is a bit nerdy, but personally I LOVE IT. I have a lot of NZ stamps, although I only really collect Australian ones, so if you want some stamps, please tell your aunt and I shall pass them to her to pass to you.
haey harry .. gald u had fun with ur holiday . comming 2 visit u soon .. get betta soon .. hows ur home school thing going lol ??!!
from jack :D sinclair :D :P :P
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