Im now 1 year cancer free, It has been a very long hard year and i have had to face so many obstacles but i have come out of it stronger than ever. There are moments in your life that change you, they change the type of person you are going to become, Moments when you know your life will never be the same again and time becomes divided into 2 parts, Before this & After this...
What matters more to you, The before or after?
For me, Its after cancer that matters more because before cancer , Yes i lived and i have many great memories however with my life now, after cancer, I appreciate it alot more, You know what i mean?
It really is the little things in life that mean the most and i have learned to love the small things, it doesnt matter if its a rainbow on a cloudy rainy day, watching my husky chase birds because he thinks his a cat, or simply a hug from Rob, These are the moments that matter the most to me now.
I have finally decided to start living, Start doing things that get me out of my comfort zone.
This year for my 1 year cancerversary Rob & I went to Melbourne & stayed for the weekend at Travelodge on Southbank, on the Saturday we spent most of the day at the aquarium & after tea we went to the Eureka Sky deck, They sent me a ticket pack for Rob & I to go out on the Edge experience for my 1 year, For those of you who are overseas and have no idea what im talking about go to this website and it will give you all the information that you need
https://www.eurekaskydeck.com.au
The Edge experience is a glass cube which projects 3 metres out from the building with you in it, Suspended nearly 300 metres from ground
The Sky deck edge experience is AWESOME, I do have to admit that for the first few seconds i was terrified and pretty much tried to hold on to glass wall and probably nearly crushed Robs hand because i was holding on so tight.
We got a few awesome photos of Rob & I in the glass box.
It is a once in a lifetime experience, which i will certainly do it again.
On the sunday, Rob & i spent the day at the Melbourne Zoo, The Zoo also sent Rob & I guest pass for the day. We spent the day there with our Godson Daltyn, his mummy & his great nan.
While we were there Rob surprised me with a Close encounter with the tigers, OMG i loved it. I go to go in the tiger enclosure with the tigers hander and a few other Zoo staff and walk around and see the inside of the enclosure and while i was there they got me to spread some chicken blood around the enclosure, this helps keep the tigers minds active and their hunting instincts sharp. When we had spread the blood around we went into a caged area & they let the tigers into the enclosure, I have always loved Tigers but now i do even more after seeing them so close.
I was so excited i was shaking, Not sure what i was more excited over, Getting to go in the enclosure, being so close to the tigers or the fact that i got tiger turds on my brand new runners.
We took alot of photos on the weekend, mostly with my mobile and it is a weekend i will never forget.
Our weekend away was the best thing thats happened to us in a long time, Its nice to have a reason to celebrate and to be able to do things that a year ago I couldnt do, on the saturday night after tea Rob & I went for a walk around Southbank, we walked 12.9kms all up and then on sunday we walked 29.4kms.
The weekend wasnt without dramas but it made it more rememberable.
While we were away I had a reaction to something that I ate friday night, We went to a well known restaurant, to be honest my meal was horrible. Im swollen still from the reaction i had to it, Hopefully the swelling goes down soon. (i wont name the restaurant we had tea at on friday, due to everyone can make a simple mistake, we went to a different place for Saturday and Sunday night).
The first room we were in at the hotel smelt bad, but the hotel were very helpful and moved us to a different room.
On the saturday Rob got the whole hotel evacuated, He went to iron his hanky, when he plugged it in the iron started smoking really bad and set off the fire alarm, good thing im alot fitter now because we had to go down 10 floors by the stairs. There was no fire and no one got hurt & I got some extra exercise, Lucky i have turned into the woman who would rather take the stairs. lol Thanks Hunny.
Then monday on the way home on the train there was a screaming child, The train ride was a bit rough and put my pain levels right up.
When we got home, Rob had a spa & when he drained it, the pipes were blocked and the downstairs toilet flooded the downstairs with sewer water, we had a plumber come today and he found a tree root growing in the pipes.
Ah well you have to bad moments to enjoy the good ones even more.
A year ago I promised myself that I would push myself & start living life....
So this is me living life.
Once a year on my cancerversary I am going to do something that challenges me, this year it was the glass box at Eureka, Next year I want to go diving with sharks.
I will post some photos to go with this post as well.
Even with the few things that went wrong I still enjoyed the whole weekend away & of course getting to spend my 1 year cancerversary with Our Godson & his mummy made the weekend even more special for Rob & I both.
Loving Life, Living Strong!
Love Always
Mandy
xoxo
