OTIS Foundation Family Getaway, Inverloch

Its been a while since I’ve written anything here.  Its been great to have some time-out of this experience and enjoy some normality, well my new normal.

I have taken the opportunity to take up a gift from the OTIS Foundation.  They offer free accommodation to breast cancer patients.  There are several property owners who donate some weeks to the Foundation.  The place we are staying is in Inverloch, in Gippsland, Victoria called Merrileugh.

I sit here looking across the farm and out to the sea.  It is breathtaking and almost criminal that I am typing on my computer.  I will share some of this place with you in photo’s but its better than the photos.

We had a great holiday to the USA last year, it was life changing for the kids, and fun to share it with them. It was action packed and busy. But it wasn’t all that relaxing, except for some wise extended bookings in a resort at Universal Studios where we relaxed by the pool.

But this is totally good for the soul.  There are cows, and sprawling farm land, dogs and cats, a tennis court, ping pong table and of course the surf beach is just down the road.  Its funny I thought of the movie, Beaches.  The kids bundled me up in blankets and put me in a sun lounge chair out on the deck with pillows for wind break as they played coits on the lawn.  It was a moment worth savouring. Andres asked me to blow a fairy and make a wish. Mine was to live a long and healthy life and see my babies get married and have babies themselves.

In terms of this BC story, I have visited the menopause clinic and they gave me some medication to deal with the leg nerve pain that keeps me awake at night.  The good side effect of this is that it makes you drowsy. This is a great benefit to overcome hot flushes and helping me sleep.

At my oncology appointment in February, my oncologist told me that I should be exercising 6 times a week to help in keeping any recurrence away.  So I drag my sorry self up at 6am and swim 300 metres at least 3 times per week, and the other days John and I go for long walks/jog.  Although I’m going to miss daylight savings with dark nights and dark mornings.

We've had fun together, but we all missed John of course. There's been dinosaur digs at a known dig site, going down an old coal mine, 65 metres below the surface and surfing lessons at Inverloch beach.  The lack of technology has made a huge difference to our re-connecting after the last 2 years.

'Bella' the friendly cat

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