Hi from Clare, 25th December, 2015
Firstly we wish you
all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, happy, healthy and safe 2016.
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| Merry Chtristmas |
THE GOOD NEWS
We have received
many emails from cruising friends asking “where are you?” as our
newsletters have stopped for a while. We came home to Australia in
August for the birth of my grandson Nathaniel. He is a beautiful
child with big blue eyes and a full head of brown hair. He is a very
placid and smiley baby. Both Mum and Bub are doing well and Granny
and Andrew are having heaps of fun.
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| We think he's cute |
THE NOT SO GOOD NEWS
Whilst at home
Andrew and I had all our usual medical checks and my breast screening
came back positive. Since then I have had a mastectomy and am now
undergoing 15 weeks of chemotherapy, followed by 5 weeks of
Radiotherapy. All this should be done and dusted by by late May and
so all going well we are planning our escape back to the boat
sometime in June. I have also many concerned emails of support for
the chemo treatment and so far I have had two treatments with no
nausea or vomiting and minimal side effects, except I am loosing my
hair at an alarming rate. Looks like a wig purchase is coming up
sooner than I thought. I have been walking and swimming now that it
is summer.
FUTURE PLANS
Andrew is planning a
trip back to Eye Candy late in January for a few weeks to check on
his baby and catch up with cruising friends who are also keeping
their boats in the Marquesan Islands away from the usual cyclone
tracks. I will be well and truly ready to return to our lifestyle of
Freedom and Adventure sometime in June. So never fear there is plenty
of life in the old girl yet. This interruption in our life is just a
Tropical Depression not a full blown Cyclone.
Keep safe and have a
sundowner for us.
Love Candy xx
