Gilmer

Hi, PurePoison!

It’s great to see you, but I think you might have intended to post somewhere else?

resolute50

Hello PureP.
Glad to see you stopped in.

Hoping to see Wendy and Pete post soon.

resolute50

Hot one today. Hard to get anything done when it's this hot.
#1 reason Fall is my favorite time of the year.
Took Toby for a quick walk when the shadows got long.
My wife and I as well as Toby were super hot by the time we got back.
Looking forward to the 4th off work this week.

Dee74

hey Bob - keep cool
Hi PP - great to hear from you - hope all is well

D

Mags1

Morning Julyers

Keep cool in the heat! We’re getting info at work on heatstroke and dehydration. More serious than I understood. I’m drinking plenty of water.

Snoozy hope you’re keeping well love

Have a good Monday. xx

PhoenixJ

I went for a long drive to parts unknown- to the north of Adelaide in the hills. Still very much as it would have been 60 years ago. One lane dirt roads, tumble down barns..huge paddocks with old, rusting farm machinery...there was one huge galv iron barn- there was a huge blackened tree- as many in the area are..(perhaps a lightning strike and a subsequent bushfire) that had landed in the middle of it. It had just been left..probably 15 years ago, the land that time forgot. The biggest diff with the southern hills around Adelaide is a human footprint. Market gardens, vineyards, sub-developments...the diff being ihe South is closer to the sea- so the climate is more forgiving and the main highway to Melbourne cuts right through the middle.

An enchanting drive..I do some of my best thunkin' - driveful meditation.
Support to all.

Gilmer

I have some bad news.

This is not a joke.

I am dying of cancer.

It is metastasized ocular melanoma, for which there is no effective treatment.

The prognosis is “grim:” an estimated 2-9 months to live, perhaps a year max.

Oddly, I feel totally fine physically and mentally—my family is taking it a lot, lot harder.

So as not to hijack, I have started my own thread on the Newcomers’ forum called “A Different Path.”

PhoenixJ

Gilly- just remember to look after yourself with the HALTS stuff. Family and friends may inadvertently be looking to you- to comfort them, about how they react- to you.
Support as ever
Perhaps you could have a beard party.

venuscat

Can't do this in another thread.....not a chance

Gilmer

All the guys in my family have beards—except for my one son-in-law, who shaved his off yesterday and is grief stricken.

PhoenixJ

A running joke- Suze, Gilly understands.

venuscat

Sorry....I got so so upset yesterday G....I still am. I did not sleep very well.
I just lost it really.....I cannot bear to lose anyone else.
Yep.....all about me.
Self-centred to the max I know....it will pass.

Gilmer

((((Suze))))

I hope you sleep soundly tonight—if only because you’re so exhausted!

venuscat

Love you honey....I will be fine....you know how I am....all emotion....and then I get myself together and handle things....I will do everything in my power to help you. Plus you might want to get ready for some visitors.....I know three of us want to come see you very much. xx

Gilmer

What fun! I’ve got two spare en suite bedrooms with queen sized beds I can prepare. (I expect you and Nick would want to double up in one room. )

venuscat

Yeah....I am kind of partial to sharing a room with Nick

resolute50

Hi gang.
I'm still trying to process what Gilmer shared.
I have great faith in the Lord. And I am thankful that his peace has come to you my sister.
As everybody knows,cancer has touched my family. It will be one year to the day tomorrow that my wife and I spent the weekend in the ER when she developed a blood clot. It was scary, but, I also knew we were not alone. Friends and family helped out a lot as well.
You will be in my prayers Gilmer.
As is everybody that struggles in this class to keep sobriety .

Gilmer

Thank you so much, Bob.

Mags1

Gilmer, your strength and integrity is beyond words. yours was the first message I read when I opened up SR. It took a moment for my brain to process what you’d said. Support is here for you, all the way. We’re on this journey together.

venuscat

We are on this journey together....calling all of our July thread friends......as Bob said.....I feel that many of us are struggling. We do this together and we will always help each other.

Bob....thank God for your wife's recovery..... ♥♥♥