Hello my friends

Sitting here at 4.15am watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics...It's all quite exciting I must say. I have that damn radiation to thank for my awful sleeping patterns too... it's only temporary...yer right :thinking:

Not that I'm competitive or not a lover of all great countries, but there is one thing that I must say.... AUSSIE, AUSSIE, AUSSIE...OY! OY! OY! Go you good things :geek:

I think that I'm not that interested in the Olympics, but then watching the ceremony is very exciting...makes me wish I was there! Just to be amongst all of that positive energy..beautiful. How odd that 4 years ago when we (Australia) held the Olympics I had never even heard the word 'Mouth Cancer' before, had no idea what it entailed...how quickly I learnt. I was far too busy yelling & screaming :soapbox: & cheering those hot bodies along who entertained us on BONDI BEACH..SYDNEY.. with their awesome Beach Volley Ball!!! It was fantastic!!! Those hot Yankies...I'm suddenly overwhelmed with these great memories!! How simple life was then.

What great perspective the 'C' gives us hey folks. I now sit here & ponder over these awesome athletes and the miracle of how their cells work with them...& not against them The miracle of great health....whats that annoying little saying....'Sometimes we don't know what we've got till it's gone'... Good luck to them all, good luck to us all!!!...but hey, don't we appreciate what we got even more

Good luck to them all...good luck to us all.

......LET THE GAMES BEGIN.....In the end we are ALL WINNERS

Lots of Love, Kelley x

g'day kelley,

glad you're enjoying the demonstrations of human potential, me too. El Greco has a lot to live up to, when the Games were hosted 'down under', I reckon that was about as good as it gets.

I shall from this point on associate you with the boxing kangaroo - cute but feisty - aussie olympic symbol. I reckon you should get Krishan to use an animated GIF as your avatar - sorry if that was jargon, but if you follow this link you should be able to see what I mean. We know he likes a challenge

Hope that all goes well when you take yourself along for the overdue 'tidy-up' in the tongue department. It must be annoying learning to live with the excess, but I'm sure it'll feel really good when it's trimmed - and it must be better than not having enough. after all, its much easier to trim than rebuild!

Ah well, better try some sleep, there's another day tomorrow.

Hello Kelley--still on the Olympic theme but relevant. At the opening of the Sydney Olympics it was six months after I'd had my last radiation 'shot' of the 32. And was I feeling tired!! It brought it home to me tonight when I was watching the Athens opening--6.30 in the evening our time by the way as you probably know. But \nyway I was glued to the screen throughout the 3 and a half hour programme. Whereas four years ago I fell asleep after 5 mins and only awoke for the fireworks at the end.
This is just to underline the strange things radiotherapy does to you. It's now just after 1 in the morning and I have finished my usual 2 hours trying to get a decent meal into my innards.
These fried tissues just don't like coping with anything other than pap. But I make them.
How I woud love to be at the Games. I visited Athens seven years ago before the throat cancer and had a great time in a hotel right underneath the Acropolis. It was called--don't read this bit Dr J!)the Hotel Erektion(viz) and judging by some of the gals who lounged around the hotel foyer, looking happy-hookahesque a lot of the time it
waz aptly named!
But like you, remembering the carefree Bondi time and the joy of being alive, I nremembered the carafes of Greek wine and the heavy dark ciggies and the huge platters of spicy food. Not to mention the heavy dark Greeks!
Now all I can eat Greek is the yoghourt. And that compensates for everything although you can't get excited about it! It has kept me alive really.
Well that's enough blethering as wee Scots say. It'll be great fun watching the Games and thank God we're at least alive to do that.
Best regards Ishbel

Kelley I just glanced at the reply I wrote and I hadn't realised that it soiunded as if, having a great time in the hotel, I was part of that scene.
Course I wasn't, she protested primly. It was our base. But I did practise my Greek with one of the girls who had a great raucous laugh...at my accent!