I really have not blogged much this past year, mainly not wanting to look back but rather look forward. "forgetting what is behind" and rather looking forward. Sometimes we need to look back, and only then can we see how far we have gone.
This past year has really been eventful. Where to start? After many years of consulting and owning my own business, I have moved back into the corporate environment, and so I'm a development manager for a company that owns large retail centres in South Africa. It has been a huge adjustment for me, but on the other hand has been very exciting. The projects I'm working on are very large, but very exciting.
I was fortunate to go overseas to London and Dubai attending a conference with my work. It was great seeing the city and visiting various shopping centres.
Over the last year I have been on maintenance chemo, which was a cycle of Vacade every 3 months. The doctors look for minimal residual disease (MRD), and towards the end of last year we had a scare, where my levels started increasing instead of decreasing. My doctor them put me on a 4 month cycle of chemo mainly with Valcade, also with Thalidomide. I really reacted badly to the Thalidomide, and so I was taken off it. After 4 months of chemo, I finally come off everything. It's nice to have some time off. I have to go for another bone marrow test later this month, and then see the doctor at the end of May.
"But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained"
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| The London Eye |
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| The Tube - London |
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| The Tallest Building in the Word - Dubai |
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| My favourite pastime ... ;-) |
