Comments for Cancer Sucks http://cancersucks.com.au Personal blog of Callan Back. Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:01:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Fear of the unknown by Tara Gorrie http://cancersucks.com.au/fear-of-the-unknown/#comment-553 Tara Gorrie Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:01:30 +0000 http://cancersucks.com.au/?p=637#comment-553 Live for today. Go on that holiday. Make the most of what you have. If nothing you have your mind and some cancer patients aren't even lucky enough to have that. Tell your wife you love her daily. Tell your family they are your world. Travel, live life. You may make it till 90, and if you do you will have an amazing story to tell. And if by chance you don't, your family, your wife and you will have a life lived to be proud of. Your wife will be okay. She will have family and friends to help her. She will make it if she has those memories. If she knows you did what you both wanted. It will be harder for her to deal if she thinks you didn't live to the full so that she had a better chance. Be strong. Be proud. Be you. Much love from the Hawkesbury. Live for today. Go on that holiday. Make the most of what you have. If nothing you have your mind and some cancer patients aren’t even lucky enough to have that.

Tell your wife you love her daily. Tell your family they are your world.
Travel, live life. You may make it till 90, and if you do you will have an amazing story to tell. And if by chance you don’t, your family, your wife and you will have a life lived to be proud of. Your wife will be okay. She will have family and friends to help her. She will make it if she has those memories. If she knows you did what you both wanted. It will be harder for her to deal if she thinks you didn’t live to the full so that she had a better chance.

Be strong. Be proud. Be you.
Much love from the Hawkesbury.

]]> Comment on Fear of the unknown by David Haas http://cancersucks.com.au/fear-of-the-unknown/#comment-550 David Haas Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:01:22 +0000 http://cancersucks.com.au/?p=637#comment-550 Hello, I have a question about your blog. Please email me! Thanks, David Hello,
I have a question about your blog. Please email me!
Thanks,
David

]]> Comment on “What I Wish I Knew About Cancer” by Marty Wilson… featuring: ME! by mrs cheese http://cancersucks.com.au/what-i-wish-i-knew-about-cancer-by-marty-wilson-featuring-me/#comment-537 mrs cheese Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:29:10 +0000 http://cancersucks.com.au/?p=598#comment-537 Hi Callan, Just found you via the lovely book. I've just received my copy from Marty and it's a joy to read. Wishing you all the best and here's to kicking Cancer's ass Nerys Hi Callan,
Just found you via the lovely book.
I’ve just received my copy from Marty and it’s a joy to read.
Wishing you all the best and here’s to kicking Cancer’s ass
Nerys

]]> Comment on Major blackout in the Blue Mountains by callan http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-503 callan Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:49:34 +0000 http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-503 Thanks for the comment :) Have you got power back yet up there? I threw a few quick updates into the post above too. Thanks for the comment :) Have you got power back yet up there? I threw a few quick updates into the post above too.

]]> Comment on Major blackout in the Blue Mountains by callan http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-502 callan Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:48:19 +0000 http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-502 Glad you guys found the humour in this too. Me and my wife ended up making a doona-tent over our bed and sat underneath it reading books by LED torchlight, like little kids. It kept us warm and entertained until we fell asleep anyway. It's definitely eye opening though, blackouts are a very unique experience, it makes you feel like you're camping, but in a very surreal way as you're FORCED to sit there in the dark, plus at the same time you're not as prepared as you would be if camping, especially when you don't have a fireplace like us! Glad you guys found the humour in this too. Me and my wife ended up making a doona-tent over our bed and sat underneath it reading books by LED torchlight, like little kids. It kept us warm and entertained until we fell asleep anyway.

It’s definitely eye opening though, blackouts are a very unique experience, it makes you feel like you’re camping, but in a very surreal way as you’re FORCED to sit there in the dark, plus at the same time you’re not as prepared as you would be if camping, especially when you don’t have a fireplace like us!

]]> Comment on Major blackout in the Blue Mountains by callan http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-501 callan Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:39:29 +0000 http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-501 Thanks for your comment, regretfully we don't own a car, just motorcycles, and they don't have heaters or plugs for the chargers :) We were tempted at one point to go start up one of the bikes, rev the crap out of it, and sit next to it for warmth ;) We just piled on more doonas though, and made it through the night. Thanks for your comment, regretfully we don’t own a car, just motorcycles, and they don’t have heaters or plugs for the chargers :) We were tempted at one point to go start up one of the bikes, rev the crap out of it, and sit next to it for warmth ;) We just piled on more doonas though, and made it through the night.

]]> Comment on Major blackout in the Blue Mountains by callan http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-500 callan Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:38:10 +0000 http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-500 Yeah something that has really upset me is how little news there is about all this! 30,000+ people without power for over 24 hours and it barely gets a mention except as a paragraph in articles about the high wind. If this happened in Sydney, even to a single suburb, it would be ALL over the news, regular updates from the electricity companies and emergency services, etc... but out here we get nothing. It's been very scary going through it with no idea of when we would get full power back again! Yeah something that has really upset me is how little news there is about all this! 30,000+ people without power for over 24 hours and it barely gets a mention except as a paragraph in articles about the high wind.

If this happened in Sydney, even to a single suburb, it would be ALL over the news, regular updates from the electricity companies and emergency services, etc… but out here we get nothing. It’s been very scary going through it with no idea of when we would get full power back again!

]]> Comment on Major blackout in the Blue Mountains by callan http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-499 callan Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:36:22 +0000 http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-499 We are in Leura, we got power back around 9pm but it was shaky until about midnight. Lights kept flickering and we couldn't turn the computer or TV on because they kept rebooting so didn't want to risk damage. It was nice to have power enough to boil the kettle and make some tea though, we were freezing all night. We are in Leura, we got power back around 9pm but it was shaky until about midnight. Lights kept flickering and we couldn’t turn the computer or TV on because they kept rebooting so didn’t want to risk damage. It was nice to have power enough to boil the kettle and make some tea though, we were freezing all night.

]]> Comment on Major blackout in the Blue Mountains by Trent http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-498 Trent Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:52:00 +0000 http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-498 We are in Woodford, kids on holidays and wife at home with them. We only moved in on Saturday up from Mt Riverview. I can't believe they haven't fixed this yet. Granted the conditions would have been difficult last night and this morning, however surely this is why our power bills are so massive. I have some unhappy kids, and a fridge full of food about to go bad. I'm a very unhappy Origin electricity Customer at the moment. By the way, if you have a car charger for you iphone, you could start the car up and charge your phone for a bit, get warm at the same time, lol. We are in Woodford, kids on holidays and wife at home with them. We only moved in on Saturday up from Mt Riverview. I can’t believe they haven’t fixed this yet. Granted the conditions would have been difficult last night and this morning, however surely this is why our power bills are so massive. I have some unhappy kids, and a fridge full of food about to go bad. I’m a very unhappy Origin electricity Customer at the moment.

By the way, if you have a car charger for you iphone, you could start the car up and charge your phone for a bit, get warm at the same time, lol.

]]> Comment on Major blackout in the Blue Mountains by max http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-497 max Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:31:58 +0000 http://cancersucks.com.au/major-blackout-in-the-blue-mountains/#comment-497 thanks callan, I hope your C is kind to you. Wnty is a dead duck! Max thanks callan,

I hope your C is kind to you. Wnty is a dead duck!

Max

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