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133 – March Miracle Cure, Part 2: 31 December 2024 This was Margaret on 19 September 2021.  on that day we celebrated the birthday of Margaret’s sister Maurine.  My beautiful Margaret wife was so full of life.  She did not live to see 19 September 2023. **** I could barely contain my joy. In early December 2020, Margaret had been dying. She had undergone harsh treatment involving chemotherapy and radiotherapy for six weeks – and now we had been granted a miracle.   The cancer had collapsed so much that it was barely visible.   The doctors had no explanation for what had happened.    The doctors had thought Margaret would be dead by December 2020.   If it worked, t he chemotherapy and radiotherapy was supposed to extend her life to about March or April or May 2021; and then Margaret was supposed to die. But now all of those predictions had been upended. The cancer had done a vanishing act.  It could not be seen by the surgeon.  If th...

  132 – March Miracle Cure, Part 1: 30 December 2024 Because I loved Port Lincoln, we started driving to Port Lincoln on Friday 12 February 2021.  I did all the driving.  Margaret was too weak to drive.  We stayed the Friday night in Port Augusta.  It is only 310 kilometres from Adelaide to Port Augusta, but I was exhausted when we got there. Margaret discovered a local hotel made a chocolate pizza, so she nibbled at a chocolate pizza.  I can’t remember what I ate, but I do remember I spent that night in terrible pain from my bloated stomach.  I tried hard pretending that it didn’t hurt even a tiny bit while Margaret pretended not to notice my agony.  I did not sleep at all that Friday night and it was very hard driving the 343 kilometres from Port Augusta to Port Lincoln. Our stay in Port Lincoln was depressing.  I was in terrible physical shape and Margaret was dying.  We stayed there from Saturday 13 February to the morning of...

  131 – Cancelled, Part 4: 29 December 2024 I loved Port Lincoln, so we went to Port Lincoln for a few days in February 2021. Early morning on the Port Lincoln beach on 16 February 2021. ****   Early morning on Port Lincoln waterfront on 16 February 2021. **** All actions have consequences.  I only narrowly avoided death after the cancellation of both me and Margaret by Anne Ryan and our former friends after the barbecue on 26 January 2021. **** Because I convinced myself that my symptoms had eased slightly, I decided my health had improved slightly in November and December 2020.  Of course, I was wrong to think this. My weight had reduced to 84 kilograms by October 2020.  This was the weight that the dietician recommended as ideal for me.  I no longer tried to lose weight once I reached 84 kilograms. What I wanted was irrelevant though.  I could not slow down the continued deterioration of my weight from a healthy weight into the death zone. ...