The Next Adventure

I don’t know where to start really. Sitting back contemplating our life since the last post in Thailand from our last epic trip ending Oct 2017 and so much has happened. Most good. Some bad.

Picking up the dogs and bringing them home was one of the best homecomings. The fact that within a few hours it felt as if we had never left them made us feel less guilty for leaving them behind.

I fell into a really good job working for a really great company and from day one loved it. Tim was busy with property sales/purchases. We moved further out of town and had some land for chickens and veggies and life was good.

Somehow years went by. We lost our boy Buddha unexpectedly in Feb 2020 with a ruptured spleen tumour which was traumatic for us but quick for him. We thought Griff would struggle but the little shit didn’t seem affected. I think he enjoys all the additional attention!

COVID hit. COVID mostly went away with the occasional flare up but life pretty much went back to normal. Then life kicked us in the guts big time on the 6th of November 2020. I received a call from Tim from the ER saying that he had been admitted. After struggling with arm pain and then severe headaches he was diagnosed with cryptococcal meningitis. He was riddled with lesions in his lungs and brain. From spending a maximum 4 hours in a hospital in my adult life to 12 hours a day for weeks was a real eye opener. Nurses are my heroes. Yes doctors diagnose and treat but nurses are there to pick you up when life is shit, deal with the day to day and also help understand what it all means. Absolute legends. After 6 weeks in hospital we finally got Tim home.

The road to recovery is long but it’s a good news story and it’s one that has led us to embarking on another epic journey! But this one is in a camper trailer around Australia and with an extra companion Griff! Watch this space! S

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