For those who remember….. today, 19/12/23, I celebrate 15 years since my double mastectomy, thus, by the Grace of God, surviving Stage 3, Grade 3 breast cancer. Cuties, at the time, played a major part in my fight and I will be eternally grateful fo
At this very sad time, on behalf of Jim, I wish to share with you all, a link to Vicki's Obituary page (Basketkase). I hope you will please visit and leave a message in tribute to Vicki that will be a permanent message of support for Jim and Vicki's
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Hello Cute family, just a brief update on Yoriko for those who remember. She has spent the last few weeks in intensive care and having multiple tests to ascertain her fitness for the lung transplants. She sent me this message a couple of d
IMPORTANT WARNING Some (Phillipino?) person has illegally taken over Yoriko's My Garden Embroidery Design Website and is selling her designs. PLEASE do not buy from this person, it is NOT Yoriko and she is not benefiting from this. I
There’s no denying our country is a land of extremes. In the last 20 days we have gone from fire to flood, extreme heat then torrential rains. #1 31/12/2019 across the river #2 - 17/01/2020 Main East Coast Motorway M1, two lanes closed
I have tried several times to write this and share our New Year's eve events with you, but our brush with the bushfires seems so minor now, compared to so many others who have lost everything. We first knew about the fire here, called the Charmhav
My dear Cute family, I believe most of you know that Yoriko, (Manami), is very sick, but you may not know that her doctors have given her only six months to live, without a lung transplant. She is trying to stay positive but it must be extremely
Winter is here and I’m on my way to hospital to have parts of my heart frozen, to stop it from running marathons without me. God willing, I’ll be back with all my ‘friends’ and loved ones later today. Thank you all so much for your
I know they're not perfect, (I'd never claim to be a quilter LOL!), but I finally started on my Vintage Heritage Block of the Month quilt. It's only taken me about 9 years!!! I stitched out the blue one yesterday and the two maroon ones today.
I’m sorry I haven’t been posting much lately but the last 18 weeks have been the most difficult days of my entire life. I won’t go into details other than that I have been and felt sicker, and struggled more, than when I had breast cancer.
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It has been just over a week since we went to see the Gastroenterologist Specialist, Professor Dr Martin Weltman, down at The Prince of Wales Hospital Medical Centre and he took less than a minute to tell me it is not Cirrhosis of the Liver, YET..
I’m laying here in bed, just after 8:31 AM, having only got to sleep around 4:30. In 4 hours we’re heading off to see the Specialist Professor, 100 km away, about my mystery liver disease. I’ve packed a bag in case he wants to admit me to th
Thank you all my dear Cute family. I’m still in Wyong Hospital, 11 days now and I’m a lovely shade of yellow, though not contagious. I’ve been poked n probed, CT scanned Ultrasounded, MRI’d and blood tested to the point of having only one
