#30 A traitor and a life saver walked into a bar

I would like it noted please that although the latest All Black loss to the Wallabies at Suncorp was a direct result of my attendance, unlike when the French government sent secret agents to blow up Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior ship in Auckland, New Zealand, I did not have intent to carry out the act. It’s true, I do feel dirty and ashamed like a traitor found out but although there are similarities between that 1985 espionage attack I make full admissions from the outset, so there is no need for a fully fledged investigation to prove my guilt.

For what it’s worth New Zealand, I whole heartedly apologise for the role I played in that Bledisloe loss and for my actions bringing the All Blacks into disrepute by attending that test match and the subsequent result *bows head in shame.

With that admission of guilt out of the way, I can now touch on the fact that apart from the outcome, it was a fucking good night out with our family and some good mates.

Even though cunty cancer has changed our lives, it’s nice to still do normal shit together.

My first wife even did better than a couple of the players red carded because unlike them she survived the entire encounter, and then some.

It was a massive day with visitors coming earlier including a local good samaritan I know through work called Alix from Night Ninjas. She came around with a home cooked feed to share with us.

My first wife ain’t drinking piss yet but I’ve got her back and am supporting the both of us in that task. For the record, I’m going great guns at it too. Level expert, even.

Too much yellow for my liking but at least Team WInslow are all in black

With COVID-19 as it is, social distancing at bars has changed the scene massively. So instead of drinking piss before the game in a bar outside the stadium where we talk rugby in such close confinement like locks in a scrum, we had to and drink piss and talk rugby in such close confinement like locks in a scrum, inside the stadium.

One of those people we did that with though was a real good good cunt who’d starred in a number of these blogs earlier on. Reintroducing our favourite surgeon, Peter Yuide. He’s got a weird as fuck last name that’s pronounced like ‘eyed’ (as in one eyed Aussie ref) but with a ‘y’ in front… well kinda.

Can’t wait to show you my scar, Peter

He doesn’t tend to catch up for beers with all his victims, or patients as he prefers to call them but I think there’s something about us being a spastic cunts that he likes (or at least my spastic-ness). So fuck yeah; we’re keen as to drink piss together at Suncorp.

Creating topics for the next blog

It was especially nice for my first wife who got to show off her scar again. In front of 30,000 people she done her equivalent of a bikie rootbag responding to a ‘show us ya tits’ chant from a bunch of pissed cunts. Only differences being nobody was chanting it and it wasn’t her tits she pulled her top up to display but the now famous scar on her guts.

In her ever innocent manner though, she did look at me and ask ‘Can I show my wound to Peter? Can I?’. Fuck yeah, of course you can honey!

Peter did tell my first wife that both her and her scar are looking really well and that was before he started drinking piss, too.

Unlike us in the cheap seats though, Peter being a fully qualified surgeon was in a corporate box with some other big wig surgeons. For the couple of you who told me ya missing my quotes in these blogs, I’m bringing a couple back in this one.

Quote of the Day:

Me: Where you sitting mate?

Peter: Mater Hospital have a corporate box and I’m in there with some other doctors.

Me: Oh that’s nice. I think we’ve probably paid for the whole thing ourselves with the bills we’ve paid so far. You’re welcome.

Suncorp team minus the two boys

Marjana just had her fortnightly blood test done yesterday and as I write this we’re in the middle of Chernobyl Day as she’s getting her chemo fill.

She’ll be having another CT scan next week to see how her cunty cancer is reacting to the chemo.

If I didn’t already know my first wife was half deaf I’d think the chemo had affected her hearing. The other day she was singing along to that new AC/DC song ‘Shot in the Dark’ and with that comes your next quote of the day…

Marjana (singing): I shot the dog…

Me: What?

Marjana: I shot the dog.

Me: What the fuck, man. No, it’s Shot in the Dark.

Marjana: I wondered why they wanted to shoot a dog.

Talking about animals, we had a massive storm about a week ago and both our cat and dog were scared as fuck. Bella hates thunder like I hate political correctness and we found out Pudding does too as she literally shit herself, the little cunt.

It was in our ensuite and for those who recall my cat whispering ways when she pissed on my clothes and are now reading to see if I did the equivalent and shat on my cat…

No, I did not shit on my cat.

She made the effort to shit on our mat and not on my clothes and I kinda appreciated the effort she went to. It’s the little things in life, aye.

Actually, Pudding is going to star in another story very shortly but going back to this one under The Cancer Chronicles topic, I imagine these posts appear less and less about the dealing with cancer in the first person than previously. For us, that’s actually a fucken good thing ya know… and believe me, it ain’t all rosey and perfect and shit like these posts portray.

But we have to be as positive as we can and try to live a bit normal even if my first wife’s husband isn’t.

I wonder who this cat shit belongs to?
Unlike other mates and cuzzies our hail was normal size

#29 Appreciating the good shit

Have had a bit of time to think lately and yes it still hurts like a motherfuck when I do that thinking thing.

It would be easy to take the view that our life is pretty fucked right now.  I don’t think many could really argue that too much, considering.

But fuck that shit, man! 

Since we started this cunty cancer journey heaps of positives have come out of it.

Yeah, there’s plenty of negatives too; like my first wife having her guts ripped out, her beautiful thick hair thinning out and my guts doing the exact opposite, having to change to a way blander diet (ok, maybe not me and the boys so much but she has), dehydrating ourselves tear by tear by tear… I could go on but that’d be looking for the negatives.

In honour of all you Playschool loving kids out there today we aren’t looking through a square, round or even an arched window but a the thankful window. Gotta love those thankful windows, man.

Just like yesterday and every day prior so far, we didn’t wake up dead. That can have it’s own ‘yeehaa’.

I think this is our boy and not some Hindu dude in a temple

My first wife can be a raggety ol’ hag when she’s pissed off with me but she does have the most beautiful smile and already this morning she’s shared it with me heaps.  Not so much a couple days ago though ‘cos she was perfecting her annoyance skill.

We have also reconnected with heaps of people who we hadn’t seen for ages and we didn’t even have to die to do it.  Usually those ‘we should catch up more’ comments only really eventuate at funerals after some cunt died.

People have offered and provided so much to us as a family.  Some we have accepted, some we even accepted without even knowing we had done so until after the fact and some offers we haven’t taken up because seriously man, how the fuck do you respond to those ‘if you ever need anything let me know’ comments?  It’s kinda a hard one aye.  But to those people who still want to help us, just keep being good cunts.

Some pommy mates, yes even though they’re poms

This morning the ol’ girl was trying on heaps of old dresses that no longer fit because I’d turned into a fat cunt and she was building reserves for winter and neither of us were the skinny like worms people we used to be.  Who’d have thunk it, but all those years that her clothes had been stashed away in the hope that one day she might get bowel cancer and lose heaps of weight would finally pay off.

Because she now fits them, I don’t need to buy her new clothes.  It’s like going to the Op shop and picking clothes off the shelf for free that you already love because you already decided that when you bought them the first time around. Saves heaps of time and money and none of you sheilas even think about bringing up the ‘no longer in style’ argument because all styles (fuck even the 80s) come back into fashion. 

See what I mean about all these positives?

Since joining a bunch of online cancer groups we have again realised how lucky we actually are.  Cancer really is a cunt of a thing.  Hearing all these real life stories and experiences of how cancer has fucked good people over is so so so sad.  It certainly makes me very much appreciate that although my cook has stage four cancer, she ain’t half as fucked up as heaps of other people who have already lost loved ones or are way more fucked up and therefore have a cunt of a life as a result.

So here’s a big ass ‘FUCK YEAH’ for our situation being as good as it can be.

My steak, not yours Bella

Considering it’s Marjana’s good week she hasn’t really been the flashest to be honest and has felt a bit shit.  She still has that vertigo thing hanging around, doesn’t have heaps of energy and is a bit wonky on her feet.

But the All Blacks pulled off a bloody great effort against the Wallabies last Saturday and the Maroons came back and pipped those New South Wales Mexican bastards from south of the border in Origin One. 

The All Blacks (ABs) play the final Bledisloe Cup game at Suncorp tonight too.  Initially we weren’t gunna go ‘cos my first wife wasn’t up to it but she’s keen as so we’re off to watch that game with some good mates.

Just on that note, I seriously considered not going as a national service to my country because every single time I watch the ABs play at Suncorp they lose.  A few of my Aussie mates really want me to go for that reason alone.  Maybe I should get ’em to buy me tickets to all their test matches in the hope I am their nemesis 😉

But we have already won this year’s Bledisloe so I’m going anyway. The Wallabies will even be in with a chance tonight, not only because I’m going but also the fact the AB’s grabbed some Under 11s primary school kids to replace some of the senior All Blacks. It kinda evens it up so if the coaching staff are willing to take a chance, then so am I.

Things may change for us and all my posts won’t be this positive but for now, this beer followed by this Jagermeister is for appreciating the good things in life.

How ya going with ya chemo?

#24 Chemo effects suck

No updates for a couple weeks and that’s probably a good sign because nothing significant has happened… that is if you don’t count waking up every day and being alive because that is indeed very significant for all of us, including my first wife and you reading this of course.

The ol’ girl continues to get better by the day and even surprised me a couple days ago by giving me avocado on toast for breakfast which was a pleasant change from the last couple of months but check out the holy bread 😉

The holy bread

She managed to put her own socks on both feet but refuses to do so because I don’t kiss her feet when she does it herself.

She can now load the dishwasher and never seen her looking so sexy 😉

She can also load the washing machine which is a bit of a mission but I tell her it’s like modern day physio so she really needs to practice that shit daily.

She now eats like an eight-year-old skinny boy which is a big improvement though from when she ate like a baby chicken still in an embryo.

She’s folding washing and that people, is another lovely sight to see.  Fuck yeah.

She spends a bit more time outside 😊 although out of the sun and wind ☹ I actually think she goes outside to hunt me when I try hide from her in the garden.

Love this pic

She walks more and has a little more energy.  Nothing like the Energizer Bunny though but better than the sloth like creature she was (without the sloth body though).

She can now cough which if you haven’t been able to do is a very nice when needed.  She still grabs her guts like she used to do with a bottle of fine Marlborough Sav but a cough is a cough.

She can now sneeze without shitting herself all down her leg… nah that shitting all down her leg didn’t happen but probably caught your attention.  Remember the Seven Dwarfs comments in a previous update, well this just proves the Sneezy Dwarf personality. She sneezes a bit and even has a runny nose sometimes which they reckon is a weird side effect of the chemo. Far out aye.

She still doesn’t drink piss but I love her anyway. She is gunna have to work on that though because love can only survive like that for so long. I never trust any cunt that doesn’t drink piss.

She can still pour me wine though so, fuck yeah!

She’s down to sleeping on only two pillows and for those that watched the pillow video that’s a humungous improvement from the pillow tower the princess I call my first wife lived upon.

The Princess climbing onto her mountain of a bed

She can wear her chemo bottle with purse attachment a little more naturally but tries her best not to go out heaps during the days she has it attached.  That’s Wednesday through Friday every fortnight by the way.

She can now sleep through most of the night sometimes, but fuck I laughed when she dozed off when getting chemo at hospital and woke herself up snoring.

She can whinge like the best of ‘em.  First wives are good like that, as are second and third and fourth and many other wives for that matter… actually to be totally honest, she whinges fuck all but I can’t really tell her that.  I think she’s saving it up for a real big one. Hoping she’ll let me know when that’s booked in for as have other shit on elsewhere that day, week or even month.

We’re both still off work and she’s gunna be off for quite a while yet.  As for me, well fucked if I know but this slave shit ain’t for the faint hearted, I tell ya.  I can’t speak highly enough of my bosses though who have my back big time so cheers man.  You are good cunts and I appreciate it.

Couple more positives…

Bella the fat thing of a dog has stopped limping so thinking it ain’t something sinister… Fuck yeah!  She’s an awesome dog, man.  I’ll try and remember to film her every time I walk in the house so you can see her bow.  I think the first wife is hoping I’ll learn that bowing trick from her.

Pudding our cat still hasn’t pissed on my clothes again so I’ve refrained from calling her Pudding the cunt and just gone with Pudding.  Nah, she’s a cool as cat too and very much misses being able to sit on my first wife’s big fat guts (even if it’s no longer a big fat guts).  But it’s ok Pudding, I now got a big fat guts of my own that you can do your soothing claw pressing moves one.

The ol’ first wife must be kinda popular because visitors are still coming almost daily, although as expected they have slowed somewhat to a more manageable level.  My first wife enjoys these visits though so anyone who ain’t sick or a fuckhead is welcome to visit.

She is still kinda yellow though and sometimes when I wake up next to her I have to check it’s actually her and not my ol man’s Chinese Mrs.  About the time I recognise her as my first wife I also realise I wasn’t stabbed in the guts like the ol’ man so no it ain’t his Mrs.

But her guts is still very much a long way from healed and it really does suck that she can’t eat a lot of the food that normal people eat.  Well what we eat, so not really normal people.

Chicken soup is good for the soul… as are good sons and family company

Couple other updates since last post is we had our good mates Biggles and Lexi down for a couple days and that was therapeutic because she loves them, we got to drink heaps of piss together (well most of us) and BBQd over fire for first time in a while and I dig that shit.  Of course, our neighbours who are also good cunts too came for beers, feed and a birthday.  Fuck I missed that shit.

Sneaky little Beach visit

Dilan got pissed though and managed to show us what he had in his guts.

Some plumber dude came and took a couple hundred bucks off us but fuck was that money well spend or what.  When ya first wife has bowel cancer and getting chemo ya don’t want ya toilet or any other drains backing up but he sorted it.

Yesterday some other dude came and did a monkey climbing thing with a chainsaw and by the time he was finished I’m sure he would’ve pissed off some tree huggers. #Fuckthetrees.

Nah, I love trees but the roots were causing massive dramas with our drain pipes and had the potential to fuck up the town sewer pipes that also run through our property so had to be done. That means I been working like a slave doing dump runs and I’m absolutely rooted as I write this.

Gotta love a dump run with ya dog

I wrapped her a present because using a broom is a bit of a struggle for her right now.  I’m good like that 😉

I wrote most of this a couple days ago and since then she hasn’t been feeling real flash the last couple of days.  It’s kinda fucked actually because she doesn’t deserve this cunt of a disease ☹

Watching, smelling and feeling the see (and dogs)
Gunna make some tea from our camomile plant
Impersonating Dilan eating soup

Bella in her pre grey hair days

Sharing the same birthday as myself (although not even close to the same year) is our dog.

Introducing Bella.

Born and bred on Straddie, as in Minjerribah aka North Stradbroke Island, she is indeed a real mongrel as are we. So she fits in perfectly.

She’s now nine and has the most beautiful soul and is very much a welcome and loved member of our family.

She may be number six in order of arriving into our family but if we go by the amount of how much she is loved, her rating would vastly improve.

Pudding our cat didn’t have a say but the four humans in our family all had a name for Bella. All names were put into a hat. Dilan wanted ‘Pingu’, can’t remember Kodi’s choice, I wanted ‘Dust’ and my first wife’s choice was drawn to take the naming prize. I believe ‘Bella’ is one of, if not the most common dog names in the world.