Fishing

Joshua's hospital appointment was fairly uneventful. They checked him over and told him to come back in December. It was strange to see the doctors from Lady Cilento braving the far north of the country. For one of them it was his first visit to Cairns. As far as updating on Joshua's condition, this blog will hopefully become fairly uneventful. Compared to the intensity of the last few months we are back to the humdrum of normal life, most of which is not that blog worthy. I don't think you really want to hear about my visits to the supermarket, exciting as those can be! Stone fruit and mangoes are now in season and Bunderberg soft drinks are now selling their Christmas spiced ginger beer (see, not that exciting).

People keep saying to us how pleased we must be to all be back together and again and in Cairns. Of course we are and we politely smile and agree, but to be honest it's quite odd. The last few months have been very intense and now we are back to 'normal', I'm not sure what to feel. We probably need time to process our emotions, most of which we put on hold in order to 'hold it together' during the treatment. Cancer has been our focus, now we have to remember what we did and how we spent our time before. It was only a few months, but it feels like a lifetime. Maybe we are still in shock. There is definitely a gap between the way people expect us to feel now that it's 'all over' and the way that we actually feel.

When you receive the diagnosis you are numb and in shock and then you go into survival mode. You get through one day at a time. Finishing treatment possibly is the start of the release of all those unresolved emotions and feelings there was no time for during treatment. We are now part of a club that we never expected to join - the cancer club. I guess it is just something we will have to work through!

Normal life involved fishing on Saturday afternoon/evening. Here are a few photos.