MELBOURNE UPDATE

MUM IS ON 24 HOUR PAIN KILLERS AND HASN'T BEEN OUT OF HER PYJAMAS FOR 4 DAYS. SPENDS MOST OF THE TIME IN BED. WE TOOK HER OUT TODAY TO HER GRANDSON'S BUT VERY FRAIL. CAN NO LONGER USE A WALKING STICK ON A FRAME. MY MOBILE IS 0439891119

BACK TO AUSTRALIA AND SITUATION NOT GOOD.

Hi everyone, please forgive this very short message. On Wednesday Loretta woke me in Singapore to tell me that she'd be called. Mum was in hospital again and her heart was racing and blood pressure dropped again. They gave her stabilizers and sent her home. Mum wanted to go home.

Loretta drove down from Pambula (7 hours) and Mya and I were booked, packed and at the airport at 8.30 for the next flight out. We arrived in Melbourne just after Loretta and mum was looking fairly well for her 2nd heart attack since we left in November. We all were not taking any chances because with every attack the heart gets more and more damaged.

Mya was fantastic getting ready and packing some of her own stuff. Although I know a lot of my friends think she is a little so and so, I wish they'd remember how much change and stress she has to undergo. She woke up that morning thinking she was going to school as normal and the next thingshe is in melbourne and a very sck and dying grandma.

Anyway Although everyone had warned me Mum did look very frail and tiny. her thighs are now thinner than my wrist and she has absolutley nothing on her bones except skin. She managed to have dinner with all the family and was Ok for a day or two.

Now with each day she is getting more dizzy spells and back pain. the back pain is the cancer pain that she still hasn't worked out yet. She thinks it's her skin and bones hurting on the chairs.

Yesterday to top everything off, due to a mix up, the electricity company cut off her electricity and we couldn't even heat her wheat bags to keep her warm. I flew over to Pam's 3 minutes away to heat up some food for her dinner and we slept by candle light. (Congrautulations AGL energy! Hope you are proud of yourselves - they said it would take 5 days to reconnect - even though we explained the cancer and care situation). SO Loretta connected mum with another Electricity company and the lights were back on by 9pm.

Today she is very frail and we have a wheel chair and we are contacting Palliative care.

Although Mum has come back from many episodes like this I fear her time is near.

Mya has fitted back comfortably in her old school and has been incredibly resilient and helpful especially getting ready to change countries with 1 hours notice.

We hope that everyone will understand - we can not compe with a lot at the moment, so pelase not photos, forwards or anything expect real letter. we don't have the time nor the energy. My phone number is +61439891119 and internet access very very limited. I had 61 emails to plough through today most of them were not personal ones.

will write soon. Love M.