So i wake up in hospitable, i cant focus my eyes and everything is loud and echoes like a dream, Ami is there, looking tired as hell and worried.
As i kick start my thinking, i begin to worry,why am I here?
It turns out at the end of our big Australian road trip, i began to get head aches and slight dizzy spells, one morning I awoke, in-pain and against my pleas, Ami took me to an Aboriginal clinic in the tropical north of Western Australia.
It turns out i was lucky to survive the last stages of a very aggressive brain tumor, i was operated on in Perth and my life was saved... so far.
But before the doctors let the good news slip, they had more numbers and odds of survival to use on me. It turns out to be a very rear kind of cancer, one of the rarest in the world, and starting next week here in Auckland i will be receiving big doses of radiation and chemotherapy to try and kill it off for good.
{This ain't your grandparents or friends lump, cancer so no comparisons or advice thanks...}
So, now, after waking to the long blurry nights and days in a druggy Hospital haze, Ami watching over me.
My entire family came and visited from the edges from the globe.
Not to spoil the ending, i survived to write the story, and we end up being flown back to NZ for the remainder of my yet to come treatment.
So before i talk of Australia, and our amazing adventures this little hurdle as thrown a spanner into the works. I am expected to recover my vision and walking etc.
We are now in Auckland and thanks to the awesome help from our families we have rented a villa near my new best friend, the Auckland city Hospital.
Now if you want to hear of the horrors of surgeries, needles and brain damage i'm not the one to ask. Its not worth remembering and it's not that interesting!
The best part of this whole story is how Australia payed for all my medical care and even flew me home to NZ where everything is free! We even get a sickness benefit and housing allowance to keep us going! got to love a caring socialist society!
I Am pretty sure if this had happened in the U.S. I would be dead by now.
I'm a pretty cheerful guy, and this experience has given me some massive insights into the brain and our awareness and all I will say is that the brain is less cluttered or perhaps more robotic than I understood. From what I have had the privilege to witness, we are far less flimsy humans. More like supercomputers with shitty software holding us back into emotional cuffle!
I had two days with pure logic and Vulcan like emotionless and they where the most relaxing and rewarding of my time here on earth.
Just an observation. Now back to the past!
