Wild Wadi Water Splash-a-rama Kids Haven

Had a great day at Wild Wadi yesterday. Here's the famous Burj Al Arab hotel as seen from there...

Carys had a fight with a water shute. Ouch...

Great rides though and Carys is already looking less sore. She went straight back on the ride!

Dubai Marina - Where The Hotel Is!!

We are based in Dubai Marina - very posh!

Our Hotel

Not too handy with IT - sorry can't turn the pic round.. argh...

Dubai On The Way...

Hi guys from mad Dubai; we arrived early on Thursday after an overnight flight from Heathrow. Me in the Heathrow business lounge....

Nearly there....

Not Long To Go....

Well guys, had a busy old weekend; Amy and I handed out balloons in Bedford town centre to publicise Kip and then our great friends Nick and Sarah came round for a Chinese in the evening. It was an early start on Sunday as I hadn't finished prepping up the palm Sunday service and then Amy and James came and spent the evening with us.

Today with hit the shops in Milton Keynes for holiday shopping which was fun but very tiring! I'm not feeling too good at present, quite tired and dodgy tummy wise. On the hospital front my full scan is on Friday 17th with the results and consultation straight afterwards. We've got to hope it hasn't spread anywhere else; assuming it's still in my oesophagus the next course of treatment should start that same day.

We are really looking forward to Dubai; leaving here at about 4.00 pm on Thursday to go to Heathrow - we've saved our Emirates points up and are going business class but coming back economy. I'll try and blog my way through the trip!

God Bless everyone

Dave

The Little Blighter Is In My Lower Valve

First Things First

My Dear Blogettes....

Now Sian & Jackie. My one re-occurring nightmare (seriously) is where I own a horse that I keep forgetting about. I remember after 3/4weeks and go to the stable to find it thin, fly blown and covered in horsey poo. I clean it, feed it and then forget about it again for another three weeks when the whole nightmare occurs. Argh.... I love Carys but not enough to buy a horse. Why, when Sian has one we can 'borrow'???

Now onto things a lot less scary than horses: cancer. Had yet another meeting with the oncologist today. On the whole it went well. Here's the basic gist:

1. They are VERY surprised it's taken this long to come back, the fact it's come back now is actually surprisingly good news: it should have re-occurred long before now.
2. They are not sure if it is a new tumour or or old stuff that's grown, come to the surface and re-appeared.
3. There's lots they can do as I'm effectively back to where I was in January 2008.
4. I can have more radiotherapy (big surprise) including some new stuff they do from the inside as opposed to firing it at you from outside.
5. I have a fully body CT scan on April 17th. The issue is; has it spread or not? If it has then the radiotherapy won't happen. The most likely spread is to my liver. They have made me an appointment an hour after the scan on the 17th. for the results so no weeks of waiting this time!
6. Dr Bulusu (my oncologist) is going to try and get me some further treatments that are 'off piste' including some new anti body treatment. Some of these I might have to pay for.
7. There is no approved treatment for re-occurring esophageal cancer because until recently you just died from it. I'm going to be a Guinea Pig.
8. On the whole they were much more positive and upbeat then we'd anticipated. Brill!
9. Dave lives to fight another day!!
10. They checked out my abdomen as I've had the squits for weeks and they think it's just a bug.
11. I can go to Dubai!

And oh! My boat is going back into the water next week! Bottom has been scraped and anti-fowled and the engine totally refurbished at a nose bleeding level of expense. We are ready to cruise! And you know how I love to cruise! Wondering! If I can add any more exclamation marks to a blog!!!

By the way if you want to know what appeared on the Google search list when (worried about the strange colour of my squits) I typed 'orange faeces' in the search engine e mail me at peaktandd@aol.com and (assuming I consider you able to cope) I will email back and let you know! Christians be warned; it's VERY funny but well dodgy!!

This morning (and tomorrow too) I had the privilege of taking an assembly on the subject 'What's Easter All About' at a local senior school. Had a 'congregation' of 600!! They were brill; very well behaved and 100% attentive. Wish the average Methodist congregation was the same.

Well guys must sign off now and pour myself a scotch.

If you are breaking up for Easter this weekend have a good holiday. If you're off to Spring Harvest have a great time and all the best to my mate Geoff whose speaking there this year.

God Bless All!

Dave.