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Time in Nagoya (and spam posts)

I've posted photos of my time in Nagoya. It was such a treat to visit friends, and the work arrangements there went well. PS Just discovered that this blog has been having lots of spam posts ... time to move away from Drupal and admin it a bit better

Work in Japan

News update, Japan trip and some photos

International Day at James's School

A happy charging laptop

In a slight break from our normal family news... Charis experimented with inserting a mini audio jack into the power connector that plugs into my (David's) work Dell laptop. It produced no auditory success, but bent the pin inside the power connector. I managed to straighten it, but

Last few months

Since our holiday it's been the flu season in Cape Town - swine flu, other flu, and serious pneumonia going around. We've all been sick in turns and James has spent quite a while off school - two weeks a few weeks ago, and then the

Back from holiday

Off to the Eastern Cape

Time to recoup

More details from Prof

Relief - James is still clear

Relief - James is still clear

Bone Marrow test yesterday

Bone Marrow test yesterday

James had his bone marrow test yesterday. He was incredible bouncy just before hand, but got knocked out pretty quickly by the anaesthetic! It was really nice that there was another family sharing the room with us. Their daughter was having her last check-up bone marrow test five years after

Extra Bone Marrow Test for James tomorrow

Extra Bone Marrow Test for James tomorrow

Carrying on with chemo

More liver troubles

First day at school

First day at school

Settling and School

Joys and blows

Blood test results for James and Charis

Liver results

Livers and sisters

Macrophage dreams and spleens

Bone Marrow results

James had his Bone Marrow Biopsy (which happens routinely every 3 months) and Lumbar Puncture (and monthly intravenous chemo!) last week. The operation went smoothly, although he felt a lot more queasy than usual and ended up throwing up all over the car. David had to go straight off to

Mayonnaise and sunblock

So, on October the 5th we went to Spier in Stellenbosch. I blame sunstroke for putting mayonnaise instead of sun-tan cream on Charis's face. Basically I was looking at her, not the containers, they were next to each other on the table, I put what I thought was

Elephant moralities

In a recent SABC article SA to earn millions from biggest ivory sale, the following peculiar sentence is found in the last paragraph: Parts of the 45% [of the ivory from the period 1988 to 1994] are of elephant moralities. Perhaps moralities should read mortalities