Not really.  But somewhat eventful as my dress snagged on the restaurant table at dinner and tore. Never mind, husband and reception team to the rescue, I shall go to the Ball tomorrow… or at least the hospital without a torn dress. Early start tomorrow but just because I have to be there at 7…

Arived in Auckland by plane [Charlotte] this morning around 10.15am Damon drove the car through Waihi to get to Auckland around 1pm Checked in at Domain Lodge and went for stroll to Auckland hospital level 9, eazy walk

Short notice change, my surgery date is no longer a week from Monday, it’s been brought forward to next Tuesday, 11 November. There’s no question it’s a good thing to get this over and done with asap, it’s just got me scrambling to make sure I’ve got everything organised. So, by this time next week…

Monday 17 November is my surgery date. Other than that, not a lot to say about today. Lots of “we can’t be 100% sure until we get in there”, which also applies to my finger. On the positive side, apparently there’s a chance I won’t need chemo at all after the surgery, it all depends…

Surgery. I don’t have a surgery date yet but it has been confirmed it will be at Auckland Hospital when it does happen. What I do have is a short notice appointment for tomorrow to meet with the surgeon and anaesthetist and get any extra scans and tests done that they see fit to order…

While we’re waiting for updates on the bigger issue, there’s time to catch up on what happened to my finger. On my 16th birthday, I fell and dislocated a finger just two weeks before a piano exam. That story is irrelevant other than the fact that when it happened I had an eerie period of…

Little update as I go to lunch, the consultants team aren’t meeting today so my case gets reviewed next Wednesday rather than today. Nothing to be done about it, I just have to keep waiting.

In a way, it all starts with me wanting to donate blood. I did my gap year in England in 1996 at the height of the ‘mad cow disease’ outbreak so there was a chance of me developing Creuzfeld-Jakob disease sometime in the following 40 years. There was no test for it, you just had…

Way back circa 2005 I set up my first ever blog as a web 2.0 exercise my team were working through. At the time I chose the somewhat unimaginative name KiwiCat. Later on, I kept a different blog while I lived in Wellington, to keep my Auckland-based friends and family up with what I was…