What a year I am having? At present time I feel more blue then happiness. Really it feels groundhog year of 2010 all over again. They say things happens in three but not in this case. When it rains it pours here in my life!! In the last five months I had striked one disaster of news to the next from sick relatives, rebellious teens to car problems.
First it was my Dad back into hospital for an emergency hermia on one weekend in March. Luckily so far he is fine and recovered well. But looks like my mum might be the next hospital case I will have to deal with down the track as I only found out today she started to have one catarat in one of her eyes. They said it might be 2-3 years before the catarat is fully covered over that eye. I do wonder if it's a family gene problem because her mum had it years ago and went totally blind in that eye. It was too late to have anything done as she didn't go to her local medical centre for treatment. I don't think she like going to GPs or dentists as I heard she never went to any in the time I existed in life.
Just when I recovered from my Dad's weekend ordeal I found out one of his cousins had early stages of prostate cancer. He came to Brisbane to have surgery to remove the prostate organ in June. Only last week the same cousin was back to Brisbane for the check up and good news he is fine. Just requires regular PSA tests done every three months for two years!!
But this morning's bombshell news at breakfast hours was really the last straw. I have an Uncle who's currently in hospital after suffering a massive heart attack sometime during the night. Going by the diagnose, I was told he might not last the weekend as it is quite serious. Because he lives miles away with his wife (who is my Dad's eldest sister), I don't get to see my extended relatives as much as I used to when I was a child.
He's been quite an ill patient for quite a long time with heart condition issues and even had by pass surgeries to survived on borrowed time. I don't know if his past generations had suffered the same condition but I hope their three sons have regular health checks with their family GP. Their youngest child is about the same age as me so most of my life I used to see him more at home as the older siblings already left home with their partners. My Uncle enjoyed his beer because he was a hard worker on their family farm in Central QLD. There is alot of other good memories of my uncle as he was a good man with a sense of Aussie humour. When that time goes when he gets call to go back home to God, he will be sadly missed by his beloved family members and friends.
They were married for 56 years which I think back in those days, the ladies intend to get married young. I wasn't even born when they got married. The last time I saw him was when I was invited to attend to their 50th wedding anniversary celebrations in 2006. They raised four kids on a cane farm! I used to visit them at the farm on school holidays. It was a twelve hour drive from Brisbane! I always knew the farm was getting closer because of other sights I can remembering seeing first. I can remember my Uncle was out most of the day working on their farm and only came in for lunch and supper.
It's after midnight here on now Sunday morning. I am not sure what kind of day I am expected to have. At present time I am just taking one day at a time. All I will say I will dread the hour when I hear the phone ring and the call is the one I don't want to know in the next day or so. I don't know if I can attend to his funeral as it all depends on how much notice we received. But there is one thing I am kicking myself for not making the summer holiday up there in January. It's the second time I have done it and I am not happy about it as I intend to lose a relative that year.
It's not even quite twelve months yet I had lost an Auntie in the same area. I couldn't go to her funeral because it was just too short notice to travel to go by car. I thought about flighting up just for the day, but the flight times didn't agree with the time of the funeral starting.
Yesterday was just lazed about inside as I wasn't in the mood to be socializing outside the house. But my best friend was supportive as we spoke on the phone for a couple of hours today. It was nice to have a supportive friend at time of need! It was a quiet household as the other three members were out most of the day. My rebellious teenager was out most of the day with friends while her sibling was out with her father at the Brisbane EKKA until 9pm.
Better go and try to get some beauty sleep but I am not expecting to sleep well as I just have too much on my mind at present time. Have a good week!
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