Tuesday 14th January 2014Hello Forever House Readers. Happy New Year.
Six weeks or so after my last post, I'm notifying you of an unexpected intermission - a pause in proceedings regarding the Forever House. I have been unable to visit Currawinya since that time, and on this occasion I am writing from a different location all together...
My husband Jeff and I are in the waiting room at North Coast Cancer Institute at Lismore, awaiting the Radiology Registrar to call us in. He's completing a couple of medical reports that we require to claim Disability Support and Carer Payments. The long and short of it is that my darling man was diagnosed with a brain tumour on 11th December and had brain surgery on 17th December at the Gold Coast University Hospital. He has recovered brilliantly from that and will now embark on a regime of conventional treatment, namely radiation and chemo, for the next many months.
We have become vegans, largely, who eat some species of fish, and no sugar. Jeff has retired from his seven day a week electronics business, and I have reduced my work hours and now work from home. Jeff can't drive. He's extremely well, and looking healthy and leaner. He's on a combination of natural remedies, embracing visualisation, positive thinking, and hopes to add meditation to his days.
We swim in the sea and lay on a blanket under the fig tree in our paddock every other day.
After the initial shock and subsequent fear settled momentarily on us in the first few days, we made a pact that we would not allow our thoughts to go into dark places. No one knows the outcome of this, including all the doctors and their statistics; and we gain nothing by wasting our precious time and energy fretting about the unknown.That is our mantra and is working for us.
We are positive, peaceful, enjoying and appreciating all the people, nature, time together, support that surrounds us, and we're spending lots of time learning about food and a chemical free lifestyle.
We will pop out the other end of this - a bit scuffed maybe, but resilient and counting our blessings.
In the meantime, the Forever House has obviously taken a back seat for a while. I'm not too worred about that. It has stood there in its' various stages of progress for these past nine years or more, none the worse for any changes in circumstances that I may have. She is a patient project. 
My Currawinya friend and helper Dave will go on with the metal work to bring the house to lock up. My other Currawinya friend Phil will hang the resized doors. Jeff and I hope to go out for a couple of days at some stage so that he can instruct me while I run the remaining power cabling through the ceiling and down the walls. Dave will also start on the timber slatted walls in the bedrooms.
Eventually the Forever House will be complete.
But in the meantime we've got other important work to do.
So see you here some time in the not too distant future.
D and J xxx
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