Some of the most unfortunate news hit mid last week. The C Bomb.
I'm not talking the profane type, although that can hit the ears and minds of some pretty hard. I'm talking about the C bomb that has the power to leave you speechless, render you with the shakes and run off with your mind, all in the first moment it falls upon yours ears and trickles down to your heart. Cancer.
I've very fortunately not really heard that word much outside of my own mother's ordeal, until last week. Last week we heard of a friend who'd been dropped the C bomb. It was the first time I'd known of any one close to me being affected since we lost Mum. While I listened to the news, I realised how much I've learnt in the last six months alone, though it never gets easier to hear that some one close to you has been affected.
Saturday morning was my Dad's birthday. After a lovely family breakfast he received a phone call that would completely reshape the weeks ahead.
My family company have a new concept due to launch into the market place late this year. We had engaged a web designer, who at this point was three weeks into the site build, two weeks from finishing and ready to present us with the first stage on Mon 15th. Everything is riding on the website being finished asap.
Saturday morning Dad gets a call. The web designer had been caught drink driving. After being escorted home, it turns out he gave a false name. Alarm bells are a ringing!!! After a bit of home style super sleuthing it turns out his bank account, car registration, ABN, credits cards and so on are in three different names... bring on the googling!
Then my mind is blown. One of the names reveals this fellow has been on the run since 2006, having escaped England on fraud charges, and is awaiting a 6 and half year jail sentence. Oh and that was after a short stint of freedom, as he had previously been in the lock house for four years before that! There's alot more detail than that but you've got the gist!
That saw the end of the weekend and the start of an intense search for a way to recover and or rebuild the site within the time frame which is left. Two weeks! On top of my already weathered state, combining these new elements with my normal day job (we're currently preparing for three big events in three weeks and I'm trying to prep for things to run smoothly while I'm away for three weeks in Nov!) and balance my community service commitments (this week just happened to coincide with new Rotary developments) has seen me at the brink of my emotional and physical limits.
So I sucked up enough energy to check in with the Doctor on Wednesday and we've decided to get on a clean slate. I'm booking in for all my major doctors appointments - eyes, teeth, feet, nutrition, physio, endo... everyone! This year has been such a roller coaster and all though going to see all these specialists freaks me out, it will be peace of mind to know where I'm at with my health and where to go from here.
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