One Year Later
It’s been a year since I last posted here. To say a lot has happened would probably be too much of an understatement. Perhaps the easiest way is to go with the big events and work on the rest afterwards.
As you may have been aware, in March of 2008 my Mum was diagnosed with liver, bowel and lung cancer. After seeming to be fairly good during my two week holiday at the end of August, two weeks after getting back to Canada she was back in hospital and didn’t come home. On September 27th I said goodbye for the last time. She was given 18 months, and managed it almost to the day. I still don’t have the words to say everything I’d like to say on this. It’s been 5 months. It feels like less.
On the way home for the August holiday I had a weekend in Sydney, with the wonderful @limburger2001, who is quite simply the highlight of 2009 for me. In December a job offer came for a Ruby on Rails development role in Sydney (the home of @limburger2001), 4 short weeks later I was here. Four weeks on and I’m loving it. Sydney is the fifth city I have lived in, and Australia the fourth country. I’m getting used to the whole “move whole life to another place” thing. Though I’m planning on Sydney being my home for beyond the foreseeable future.
Short summary of other things since my last post:
- My Aunty Jill came to Vancouver to visit
- I visited a Canadian ER 4 times in week, saw two neurologists, diagnosed with (a thank god) short lived case of trigemenal neuralgia. Thanks to same neurologists a new prescription drug means I no longer suffer from constant daily headaches (and consequently no longer need to take tramadol two-three times a day).
- Taken citalopram, tramacet, hydromorphone, carbomazapine, nortriptyline, codeine, lorazepam, and at least two other prescription drugs I don’t recall. (Not all at once.)
- Thanks to the above collection actually hit the ceiling and so my last two months of prescriptions in Canada were totally free. (Ignore the hundreds of dollars I spent before that. Whoever said drugs were cheap in Canada is deluded.)
- I built a PVR in Objective-C for Mac owners who have a Motorola HD cable box (with firewire output), commonly found on Shaw cable.
- I uploaded 175 photos to flickr
- My boyfriend got me a lava lamp. (Notable not least of all because I started looking for one not long after I made my last post.)
