Waypoint: 4 September 2017

Time to pause, put a marker on the road. This is where I am, now... Most difficult blog post ever -- I just do *not* do brief :-)  But, trying:

== Situation

I have just been diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a grade 4 (the worst?) brain cancer. Fatal. 50% chance to live another 12 to 15 months, 4% chance of living another five years. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glioblastoma -- with a said-to-be-accurate life expectancy table at the end) Ouch!

There's more -- but that's what will kill me.

== Task

To do whatever I can to minimise the negative impacts (emotional, financial, etc? short- medium- long-term) on family.

Again, there's more. But that -- to me -- is most important.

== Action

I'll use Trello to make lists. What to do, how, for who, where, why, when. May need to prioritise!

== Result

No idea, I won't be here :-)

That's as brief as I can get... The blog (see link below) started very soon after I arrived at hospital. It's my typical stream-of-consciousness stuff, it may make sense. It may be incomplete, inaccurate, unreadable but it is -- almost -- absolutely honest. There are some things that even I just will not say... See "Task", above.

Overall, however, I am cheerful. No early symptoms, no known causes, no cure. Nothing I could have done -- so no regrets. Best of all, it's happening to me. If it were Deb, the boys, girls, grandson -- I doubt if I could cope.

I'm dying. I should have a few more months of living. wtf. What the heck. Get on with what's left :-)

Now back to stream-of-consciousness... and the usual verbiage...

btw: It makes me feel better to have blogged. And it's good practice for me to email. There's no need to read the blog :-) But if blog & email stop suddenly -- feel free to email Robbie (find his email in the blog page header) to ask if anything ... expected... has happened.

... Nick

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Now much more than a clever name for a holiday journal:

 https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com.au/  :-)

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved
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