Well, fun for us anyway! It’s not so fun for Christiaan Van Vuuren at the moment, as he’s been in quarantine in Sydney Hospital in Australia since the end of last year. The info as of Jan 6th from his YouTube Page:
On Wednesday the 9th December I was admitted into Sydney Hospital… It wasn’t just [...]
I know, I’m STILL going on about mosquitoes in February, but they are still causing me pain!
See, here’s what happened. It was early September and I was laying in bed in the wee hours of the morning when I felt a mosquito bite on my back. It was about 3am – 4am and I was [...]
Today I went for my second gastroscopie and all I can say is that it wasn’t as good an experience as the first one. Everything seemed to be following the same routine as the first time, I went in, they took my blood pressure, laid me down and gave me the drugs. Then I [...]
Actually, no… don’t!
A week from today I have my 2nd appointment for a Gastroscopy, not fun. It goes a little something like this…
I just had it done on the 18th, and you’d think once would be enough but please… this is me we’re taking about. It goes without saying that [...]
Yet another hiatus from my blog. Sometimes I find it hard to find things to write about because I’ve pretty much already told everyone I know what I’ve been up to via Twitter and Facebook. It makes the blog seem a little pointless at times. It sucks in a way, I miss writing here regularly.
This [...]
Bailey in his Medical Pet Shirt, so much nicer than a big ugly cone!
Sunday night Xander and I went out with the dogs at about 10pm. As we were walking along Xander was telling me how he met up with a guy a few nights ago with two big Staffordshire’s off their leashes, and when [...]
On Sunday Xander and I went to the Biesbosch in Brabant, just south of here. It’s quite lovely around there with lots of water and nature. There are boats you can rent to see the area from a different perspective and lots of trails for biking and hiking. We drove around the area for a [...]
Ok, so as I mentioned in my post about my latest visit to the Doc the one thing he did agree to do was to send me to get x-rays of my foot. I’d stepped on one of the dogs toys months ago and my foot has been bothering me since. After squeezing around my [...]
If you have two dogs, and you use those extension leads with the big plastic handles… don’t do like I did today and think you can hold both of them and your camera at the same time. Whatever is out there can wait. Otherwise, you will just end up deciding it’s a good idea to [...]
At least that’s what my doctor said the other day when in the process of telling me why he won’t help me. Nice.
One common theme among expats here in NL is their dislike and distrust of Dutch doctors. I’ve always sort of been on the fence because I’ve never had a truly horrendous experience like [...]
Last night I crawled into bed and heaved a big sigh. Our new bed is so comfy and with the fleece sheets on in the winter it’s like crawling into a cloud. I was tired, it was almost 1am which is pretty late for us but not unusual lately since Xander has been working from [...]
Holy crap, can you believe it?!! I remember when I started the countdown on my header, it was 68 days until Christmas and now it’s here!
This is where Xander and I will spend Christmas Eve – in front of the tree, behind our laptops, just the way we like it! Ok, I’m sure I’d probably [...]
I have a bunch of stuff in my head but can’t really concentrate on one single thing. Welcome to my pity party…
I went to a party last weekend that had a lot of crying snot covered little kids in a small area. Having not purchased myself a plastic bubble yet, I got ANOTHER COLD. Yeah, [...]
If I were to make a list of my least favorite places to be here in the Netherlands, it would be here. The waiting room at our local huisartsenpost (kind of like outpatients, where you go outside of office hours, only … different). I took this photo with my mobile while sitting there being miserable [...]
Pixel is slowly coming around to her old self. She can now jump onto the sofa, run around looking for treats and torment Bailey now and then. We do try to stop the playing though as her incision has not fully healed yet.
She spent the first two days acting like a little drama queen, and [...]
Well today was the big day for Pixel. Now six months old it was time to have her sterilized. The poor little thing! It was so heartbreaking for me to have this done to her now but I know it is the best thing for her. We learned our lesson by putting it off too [...]
Even though I’m feeling like crap at the moment I am giving all my well wishing vibes to Pixel. Somehow she managed to scratch her eye, which has caused some swelling and irritation.
The vet said that she has a scratch on her cornea and gave us cream to put in her eye 4 times a [...]
Kill me now. I mean it… just take me out back like a lame horse and put me down. I KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN!!!
My parents will be here in four days. FOUR DAYS. Tomorrow it will only be THREE DAYS… and I have a cold! It started out as loads of sneezing, but [...]
Everywhere I turn people are talking about cold and flu. I’m scared. I feel like I want to walk around wearing a mask and spraying everything around me down with Lysol.
If you have ever read this blog, you’ll know that my body is a finely tuned machine. Oh not in the way you might think, [...]
At the moment I am off work for a few weeks. It sucks, and I feel like a total arsehole but I guess I need to accept my limitations.
Going back to a 40 hour week after 9 years of being a housewife, ok… might have been able to manage if it wasn’t something too busy [...]
Tunnels of Blood (The Saga of Darren Shan)
by Darren Shan
