2017, the 24th year I have helped raise money for the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
This is an amazing charity, started 1931 and for most of the time since raising money to support Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital.
It is amazing the number of people the RCH has helped, and the number of hearts it has touched.
There would be lucky to be a family in Victoria that has not had some involvement with the hospital, either as patients, having kids that have been or are patients, or knowing someone who has been or whose kids have been patients.
I spent some time there myself when I was younger, including my 4th birthday….or was it my 5th. I had a friend and his brother throughout the later years of high school who had to have regular visits and extended stays in the hospital and today, as has happened every year that I have been out collecting, I have heart amazing stories of the wonderful care provided and miracles performed and even met children who would not be here today if it was not for the amazing heroes of the Royal Children’s Hospital.
I would like to take a few moments to thant the doctors, surgeons and nurses who cared for me when I was there, those that have attended to my nieces and nephew when the need has arisen and those who have cared for every child that has unfortunately had to enter through the doors of the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne.
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My plans were to at least try and post here once a week, if not a little more often. Like all good intentions things don’t always work out the way you want.
I’ve been having a hell of a time trying to find out what is causing this pain throughout my body, initial blood tests came back all clear, good I guess. Speaking with a friend last week she pointed out that it began soon after I returned from interstate; where I was had a bit of a mosquito plague occurring and I have decided to go back to my GP and ask them to test me for Ross River virus and any of its nasty little cousins. The symptoms I have, apart from the pain present a good case that it maybe some sort of alphavirus I am suffering from.
I have finally got around to doing a little more work on this blog site tonight, now if you want to be kept up to date when I add new posts you can subscribe and (hopefully) the website will send you an email notifying you of my new post(s). This is in addition to being able to use any one of a number of social networks to log in and leave comments on my posts.
Apart from that I have been trying to keep myself busy, seems to be working overall, and gives me less time to feel down and takes my mind off the pain.