A Year in Review

[Berocka 2,263]

So this week is ending up being Christmas and I thought what better time to do a year in review.

 

So, let us start with this time last year. I had my work Xmas party this day last year pretty much and it was good. My Fiancée was meant to meet me there after she had a doctors appointment. However she never showed up and wouldn't answer my call. So when I got home I found out there was a reason, she had stage 2 skin cancer. This threw the whole holiday plans for a spin. I had to message @dasboot as I was meant to podcast that night with him and @bigAL. I think that this is still one of the best podcasts recorded so I am part glad I wasn't there to ruin it haha. January meant that she had to have surgery to remove the cancer this was an interesting process and I was in there while she had it removed. Watching that really hurt me seeing her in pain and not being able to do anything. This was the start of a year I don't think either of us will forget. I would like to thank @Banackock for his help through this.

 

Not only did this hurt her but it hurt me as well. I dedicated all my time to making sure she was okay and that we would get through this. Unfortunately this time and effort saw the demise of my cricket sim. Something that brought me a lot of joy had to slowly die and I still miss it most weeks. I am thinking I might bring back a reduced form of this in the future if we see some interest.

 

Then we had lockdowns lots and lots of lockdowns my Fiancée is from the state of NSW and we live in QLD. Both states were always constantly in lockdowns and there was no way to cross the border this made her recovery a lot harder as we couldn't see her family. Eventually when it got to Easter there was a break in lockdowns and we could cross the border so we packed the car and drove the 10 hours to spend 4 days seeing her family.

 

The next issue was with Covid and international travel. As I said before I have a fiancée meaning that we were meant to get married, we planned to get married in Fiji the place we met 10 years ago on 23rd November. This had to get cancelled as we were unable to travel. I remember the day we had to call all of our guests and explain to them that we were no longer getting married. This has lead to every time we see family or friends we get the question on when we plan on getting married. The issue is we lost thousands of dollars in cancelling the wedding so we have to save up again.

 

Another reason we think the universe doesn't want us to get married is we had someone break into our house whilst we were sleeping, the person stole our wallets and my Fiancées engagement and wedding ring. Not only did we lose our possessions, but we did not have any insurance at that time, so we needed to pay for the ring again. 

 

Due to Covid last year I had to take a job I wasn't extremely happy about taking but I needed the money and the work. I was never really enjoying the job and planned to leave once Covid finished and companies were hiring again. In April my manager suffered a Stroke. This shook the whole company as we are a small accounting firm having one person unable to work made it that everyone else had to pick up the slack to cover. This has made this whole year extremely stressful as we are still short staffed and have been all year.

 

Not only did my manager have a health scare so did I. I went out one day, and that night was very tired, I slept all the next day, this lasted two weeks as well as my whole body swelling up I was not in a good spot. Below is a list of some of the diagnoses:

·         Glandular Fever

·         Esophagitis

·         Gastritis

·         Tonsillitis

·         Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
This led to me not being able to eat anything for two weeks and in that time period I lost 15 kgs (33 pounds) as I am quite a fat person this was the one small positive from my sickness. However the inflammation around my body worked its way to my heart and it was not where it should be for someone my age. So after speaking to a cardiologist I was told not to exercise for a month. This then meant the kilos all came back and as I sit here writing this I am probably at an all time high for my weight. (Hopefully with my plans this should reduce next year)

 

So, this has been my year, it has been a tough one to get through, but my Fiancée and I finally received some good news, we are expecting our first child in June 2022. this has brought so much joy and excitement and I can not wait to be a father.

 

So here is to a better year in 2022. I will hopefully become a father, lose some weight, become a certified accountant and move up with my career.

 

Best of luck to everyone reading this, I hope next year is a kick ass one for you. Also please remember if you ever want a person to talk to or lean on, hit me up I am here to help.

 

Finally to say thank you to some people.

 

@BOOM & @dasboot you are both great blokes and I appreciate your support whether or not you know you are giving it.

 

@GustavMattias and the Davos crew, thank you for the fun locker room chats.

 

To all the people who listen to my podcast, I appreciate everyone of you and you make this place a bit more fun for me.

 

Anyway this is a lot of words for a .com but thank you. And sorry to those who I tagged.

 

[BOOM 8,745]

I'm incredibly happy for you both and wish you all the best for both now and into the future. You're a great dude and it's been a pleasure getting to chat with you and even make a rare public appearance with you and @dasboot.

 

I hope the negative crap is over with and it's all smooth sailing from here on. As for someone to talk to, right back at you. I'll always have time for you brother. 

[Banackock 8,044]

Yeah, I've enjoyed getting to know you and everyone in Seattle. I always try and pop in once in a while to see how things are going with everyone privately. The secret council has always had a great group pf people too. I've appreciated the relationships with all and you on the VHL. I understand, to some extent, what you went through with the cancer situation. Everyone and thing is different, but I'm sure some things were similar in a way. Cancer is scary! That's maybe the biggest one. I remember it all still like it was yesterday. Find it and all the curiosity and fear. Waiting to hear anything - good or bad. Not expecting good, expecting bad. Bad came. Hair started falling out. She got sicker. First round of chemotherapy and sitting in the Cross Cancer thinking "holy fucking shit, this is fucking crazy. What the fuck!". Hair starting to come out. Shaving her head. It's not like we were ever freaking out and out of control. We always felt in control and that we had it, but it wasn't like anything else in my life. 

 

Was a tough year for you but you made it through and you've always been an asset and friend to the Seattle locker room, council and myself. Thank you! Congrats on the news of having a little one on the way. Hope everything goes good with that. Hopefully it won't cut into podcasting time because I've enjoyed having you guys back. It's my favorite podcast so!