What?

I usually post on here during crisis. No crisis at the moment accept I am getting bored. 73 years old now.  I have a nice home, have enough income to survive on with Sue. Hobbies are beer brewing and guitar, The photography thing has largely disappeared as I enjoy landscape and there is not much that interests me around home. Guitar playing hit a low as well find it hard to motivate myself these days. I need to exercise but have lost mobility for walking due to nerve damage and loss of balance.  I will get on the stationary bike for 10 minutes or so after this.

I love living in Thailand but that is hard to actuate due to Sue. Only short stints these days and wont be there again until late this year it seems.

Steve Rosse has his "Turtle Beach".  I need something to make me happier. Maybe the happiness is more a decision than a place or a hobby etc?

I wonder if anyone actually finds these blogs and reads them?

Ficking sick again

 Welcome to the new age of machine assisted living. After extreme abdominal swelling and pain, I  presented to joondalup health campus to discover my guts are blocked with scar tissue. Do t as me how. Anyway now I'm stuck in a room

No food or drink for 6 days. Surviving through machines. My reality is virtual. I am the man in the machine. 

I hope there is and end to this I am as I am going very loopy!

4.3/2024  Good news is I recovered abolutely fine.  

WTF Sick again.

 Been sick 10 days. What's going on? 

Started vomiting Saturday evening and did not stop. Next day went to footy and saw Lion and Dockers . Lions just got home as did I.

Then a cough that wont go away and last night  The headache started it was intense. Could not sleep. it day 10 now. Monday 14 August 2013. Headache pain lowered significantly. However, I still feel crap.  

Kills the motivation to do very much.

Don’t enjoy food much or beer at the moment, but still not positive on covid test.

 

Covid!  You finally caught me.the Pandemic is virtually over, great that the Omicron strain is mich weaker. I am in Thailand. In the middle of a frustrating week in NaiHarn Beach resort fighting the internet to get a ticket home to Perth Sue announces one morning I have got Covid! She had been a little sick the day before but did not think anything of it but then had She got a terrible night (which of course I slept soundly through).

She had gotten up before I awoke and tested herself on the tests she had packed in Perth. I did not test myself feeling absolutely fine. It complicated things. Not due to house sit J and K’s Krabi house until 4 days later and also not wanting to infect them I texted them with the news. Wonderfully they offered us to stay with them a few days earlier and isolate in the cottage next to their home.

We checked out of the hotel 2 days early and headed down to their home. Istill felt fine. The next morning I tested positive. Sue was getting sicker and I felt a little weird.

It is one day into the actual house sit now and I am markedly better. Have a little diarrhoeabut Sue is still not right.

Bloody Cough! day 8 Covid 19 outbreak and more

 Still sick after  a week. Oh my Matt our border came home with a bad cold a few weeks ago.  I kept clear of him washed hands a lot etc .  All good but he accidentally sneezed in Izzie's face as he came out of his bedroom.  Low and behold Izzie is sick .

Come Tuesday 22 June 2021 I go off to the Clarkson Respiracy Centre to get my 2nd AstraZenica shot.  All good but did notice a catch in my throat that night.

Wednesday 23 June I start coughing and it gets worse every day after   that.

Thursday 24 June Sue moves out of the bedroom because of my relentless horrid coughing.  and then!!!

Perth and Peel will enter a minimum 4-day lockdown from 12:01am, Tuesday 29 June 2021 until 12.01am, Saturday 3 July, 2021.

Wow  This is because an outbreak originating in Sydney with the Indian Delta strain of Covid 19 has come into Mindarie!  Izzie was potentially affected last Saturday 24th (well after he got sick BTW),

Sue and I went for a Covid 19 test Monday 28th and were negative.

Murray Bastian passed away Sunday 18th in Carnarvon on his way to a 3 month fishing trip in Onslow.  What a shock!  Funeral tomorrow but we can not go due to lockdown.  I would not have been able to go anyway being so sick still.

Waking up in Asian Hospital

I have cut and pasted my FB post of 24 August 2017. I was in ICU when I wrote this and under sedation but I think it is quite good and at the least special to me. I had at least 50 comments on it.

Wow what an adventure! Just shows you need to be grateful for good friends and wife.
A few days ago I experience a bad headache "no problem" I think it'll go away pretty soon but it just gets worse. Go out for a few drinks with the lads (bad idea). Playing pool could hardly hit the balls at all. (Even worse than usual) Get cab home then immediately started being sick every 20 minutes or so. Finally get up to be sick again in the morning and Sue finds me on floor unconscious. I did not want to go to local international hospital as they were pretty pathetic there last time However Sue persuaded me eventually. Hospital takes CT scan and can't find a problem and I stay overnight. However, in the morning I cannot walk to bathroom as my left leg had decided not to work anymore. Doctor there finally thinks maybe something really serious going on. Another CT scan finds bleeding in the brain. So they rush me off 2 1/2 hours away to Phuket Bangkok International with hospital sirens blaring.
They shaved my head and operated at 2.00 am.
Problem was I woke up after the operation completely disorientated. I had absolutely no memory of what had happened over the last few hour’s even days and what’s more my hands were securely strapped to the bedsides. It was a living nightmare.
I have never been tied up before in my life and let me tell you it is not just like watching someone tied up in a movie It is terrifying to lose your personal freedom. I was surrounded by about 4 nurses none of whom spoke more English than "CAN NOT" (Mai Dai) I was shouting "You can't tie me up like this I am not a prisoner untie me!" While I gnawed away at the straps with my teeth.
I was probably very unpleasant to them. But all they said was "can not" Papa. I realise now I had to be secured as I was covered in tubes, oxygen, blood shunts and EKG. In Australia the nurses would have most likely calmed me down and explained why my hands were tied. However, eventually they sedated me and I woke up without the restraints. Since then however they have been great. Caring sweet people. Had fun yesterday trying out my limited Thai and joking with them.
Out of intensive care now in a lovely big room and Sue can stay with me. Lots of tests when I get back to Perth. It is good to be alive