dads fight against brain cancer.

Hey everybody thank you so very much for your kind donations so far, my dad is going through to Dunedin this coming Tuesday for further radiation treatment, this time on his brain he will remain up there for 7 days while his treatment is being carried out. thought an update would be appropriate as we get closer toward his dream trip to the west coast. thank you.

So another update.. stew has finished his radiation treatments now and been referred to hospice for future care, not quite sure what that entails yet but will be finding out soon enough.

Thanks to you wonderful caring people out there, stew and I (Christine the wife) went for our little trip away together and spent a couple of wonderful days with stew's cousins place in Lawrence in central Otago..Cant thank you enough Louise and Johnny for our time with you guys. Then we took off to Cromwell and spent two nights the at the golden gate lodge, love that place. Weather was great and then we were going to head thru to Queenstown but it got so cold and the big snow was predicted so we decided to come home. So glad we did though cos the rain met us at Winton and it really just got worse as the day progressed on Saturday. Stew's health was very good whilst we were away, he had the odd snap at me but other than that he is doing well as can be expected in his condition.

Stew doing well and celebrated his 58th birthday last Thursday, and we had a awesome day in the end but the start of the day was not so great. Stew has his meds in blisters packs and so to make things a little easier for him I have a pill dispenser box to put each days tablets in....the Wednesday night prior to Stew's birthday was the state of origin game, which I watched. I got totally involved in a conversation with Tim after he got home from work at 1am, that I went straight to bed (without doing stew's pills for the next day). So wen he got up he did his pills himself and took the whole lot at once( morning tabs and evening tabs). But he actually couldn't remember taking both lots, so the hunt began. We needed to find them because of the risk to Isaak.(our 2yr old grandson). Tim finally found both empty pill pods in the recycle bin outside, thank goodness. So then rung hospice to confirm we had found that Stew had accidently taken both lots of pills and needed to know if he was in kinda trouble with taking so much morphine and his sleeping tab and all the other meds as well. But after the doc had been filled in on wat had happened she said he would be ok probably a little sleepy, thank goodness. my stress levels were really high that morning....Anyhu we were asked to go to stew's sister Katherine's place for a afternoon tea for stew's birthday.(He was very spoilt by his siblings btw) It was great and he enjoyed himself a great deal...being the centre of attention and it had nothing to do with his cancer. Abit later on we went to big willies for tea with the grown kids and their families...so was awesome that the grandies were there. Stew thoroughly enjoyed himself again and was a beautiful meal and the staff treated us so kindly...was really awesome.

Stew has had his steroid decreased down to one tab a day instead of two which is good cos he starting to puff up all over ...his head, his tummy, and his legs.