Update: September 2023 

2023 09 09

Hi everyone - just letting you know that I continue to do well, slowly shedding the after-effects of chemo and still a little tired with a low red blood cell count. Managing to get around a bit more, though! My lovely cousin Joyce told me about the spring flowers at Sunset Beach, Milnerton, and Gail and I went to have a look yesterday. Thank you, Joyce!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Qikvciobc788HpeW8

Lots of love to all 🌹❤️

2023 09 13

Hi everyone –

In case you're interested (and haven't already seen my post on Facebook): meet my temperature and sky blankets! Full story at

https://yvonne-bulelwa-just-for-fun.blogspot.com/2023/09/an-unlikely-combination-of-favourite.html

(I've been using the time, of waiting for more energy to return, to finish writing about this project.)

Lots of love to all 🌹❤️

2023 09 20

Hi everyone –

I'm still fine, but if the book "The Neverending Story" had not already been written, I would claim that title for myself.

On Monday I went for my first in-person consultation since February with Garth the mensch oncologist (we had spoken a couple of times in the interim, but not face to face in his consulting room).

Garth is thrilled with what has happened for me recently. He also referred me for an X-ray (which I did straight away) to check whether the issue in my left hip (picked up by the PET scan) was just scarring from the bone marrow biopsy done before I started chemo, or truly a fracture associated with metastasis.

Garth phoned me today: it is the latter, and I need to have a course of radiation for it, to prevent it becoming a serious problem. The treatment will be for 10 consecutive working days, starting on either the 2nd or the 9th of October. I'll be able to continue with whatever I'm already doing (including dancing), and the side effects are not expected to be particularly taxing. I hope that turns out to be true.

(I went for a blood count while I was there: everything, including the red blood cells, is increasing nicely.)

Lots of love 🌹❤️