Hi,

Firstly, sorry I haven't posted recently on how the tramp went. I've been waiting to get photos off other ppl, but haven't managed to, so here are a couple, they're not very good, but theres one of the amazing view when driving to Paradise (that's actually the name of the place). The other is of us getting ready for bed. We managed to sleep outside both nights which was amazing. So in total it was an awesome w/e, I absolutely loved it, although I did find it slightly challenging.

Now in order to update, I have just had surgery and am currently recouperating. I'll tell ya the story so that you can all stop worrying.It will be brief becz i'm having trouble with the kneeling and typing and the codine makes me feel a little woozie.So i've had this abcess for a wee while and should probably got it out a while ago, but didn't want to due to working in the holidays etc. It started to flare up a couple of weeks ago, so I went to the dr. to get some antibiotics and decided that i'd had enough of this thing so I also talked to the dr. about how to arrange for surgical removal. She looked at it and said that it was bordering acute and that I may need it out immediately otherwise she would right me a referal letter. I was booked in to go she her agiain the next day to make this decision (depending on if it got worse or not). Unfortunately later that night it got alot worse. I was taking voltarin but it did nothing, by the time morning came around I was in screaming agony. I managed to drag myself to the phone (I couldn't walk you see)and ring student health (why didn't i ring an ambulance?) At the time it seemed the sensible idea to go back to the dr so that she could access it. My friends took me to student healh where they carried me in and rushed me through to triage in screams and crys (to the horror of all the patients in the waiting room). My poor friend catrin was behind the curtain when the dr. looked at it and all she heard was..."now lets have a look" (shrill scream from me) "oh no, she needs to go to surgery straight away" haha poor girl she was terrified. I then got an ambulance to hospital. It was raining outside so the ambulance ppl covered me in a sheet so that i didn't get wet as they took me out on a strencher. (so the poor ppl in the waiting rm saw me being carried in, then medics racing in, then shortly after, wheeling me out under a sheet).So anyway thats pretty much the exciting part. I then went to ED where they doped me up on morphine, they told me i was a low priority case and that It may be days waiting in hosp. b4 I could get the operation, Then the surgeon came and looked at me and said that I would get in it the next 8 hrs. Horay, that was good news. So i got wheeled up to a ward. Put on a drip and starved until I could have the op (man I was hungry). luckily I didn't even have to wait that long. I had the op at 4, got out at 6 and it was all gone. The nurse in recovery told me that it was 4 times bigger than a usual 1 and thats y I was in so much pain. They let me out of hosp. the next day and I was at church that night(probably shouldn't have been, but I had to see all my friends who were frought from worry). So now I face the long recovery. They can't sew up the hole that they removed the abcess because it would be hollow underneath, so instead they pack it and dress it each day until the scar tissue fills the hole in itself. So I currently have a 4cm deep, 3cm wide hole in my back. Yay fun times. Am looking forward to going home coz then mum can change they dressings each day instd of a nurse coming up. Also, as much as my friends are all lookoing after me, I constantly have visitors, which mneans that I get hardly any sleep. Also no1 looks after you like your mum really ay.

So anyway there's a wee story for you all, sry it sounds a bit dramatised, believe it or not, that was the less gory, played down version.

But I'm happy and healthy now, so theres nothing to worry about.

I wish you all happy days, if ever you feel like the stresses of work or life are getting you down, count yourself lucky you don't have a gigantic hole in your back. :) thats sure to make you feel better,

So bye for now,
with love,
Live

haha ps sorry havent quite figured out how to do the photo thing and accidently put ther wrong picture, so sory about that. Don't know how to delete this pic of Matt (by the way he doesn't have any direct relevance)