blog update 2nd February 2016

The last few days in the beautiful wet tropics have just been awful. 37 degrees Celsius and 95 percent humidity and virtually no cooling rain. It seems Atherton is in a bit of a rain shadow. especially the part i live in. virtually every town and hamlet on the Atherton Tablelands got cooling rain as would be expected given where we live but we have been missing out.

Not normally something one who lives up this way would have a whinge about but it becomes a problem when almost all of the day you breath via a machine. the oxygen concentrator is blowing very hot air into my nose so the amount of oxygen is less dense and your oxygen sats are down. At night i sleep with a CPAP machine that is currently blowing hot air coupled with the oxygen into my lungs at the same time so it isn't the most comfortable situation at the moment and seems to be bringing on gout and rheumatism. Finding movement more difficult and my hands are aching and sore. Its also making me quite exhausted and slowing down my writing. With a bit of luck i'll get through the next month and the cool weather will be upon us here in the Tablelands again. 

Oxygen therapy review will be coming up at Cairns Hospital on the 18th of February. i need to get bigger bottles as i have spent the last month without oxygen when away from home. 

Hopefully I will be able to get back to writing up my sports blog. Some time ago i started a top 10 Grand Prix drivers of all time essay and i hope to finish it soon. Greatest of all time articles are extremely difficult to write due to the extreme emotion that gets attached to them so it should be interesting to see the response as my top 10 is not what people will think. 

I will also be doing one for sports cars, touring cars, indycars and american stockcar racing. this will take time as i am halfway through chapter 4 of my book so the cooler weather can't come quickly enough. 

Its funny you know being sick and in agony is something i got used to down through the years. Terminal illness does that to you but its those wonderful moments of clarity and energy that you sometimes get at 3 in the morning when its cool and you feel productive. At the moment its the exhaustion, a return of the angina and lack of those wonderful feelings of energy at the strangest hours that i miss right now. The days and weeks are passing so quickly at the moment i'm losing the ability to even plan a week ahead. 

I worry right now that i don't know what to do to feel ready to jump back on the keyboard for a days work right now. 13 years of being kicked in the guts every time you think you are bouncing back medically takes its toll. Right now i would take a pill or a drink or eat anything if it could give me just a few hours respite from this exhaustion. I don't expect anything more grandiose than that as i have accepted what is ahead of me as i have been through it once before. 

Chapter 4 should only be days away if the weather cools a bit :)

cheers

D