Still Alive

We are still alive!

We have spent the last few months getting ready to die. This has meant, among many other things, totally abandoning our whole SL world. It literally took us a couple of years to do that, it was such a big part of our lives… now it’s gone.

We gave up our addiction to AI-generated art about a year ago. For the last year, it has been almost impossible for us to sit comfortably, long enough, to blog, and that got doubly hard a few months ago, so we just have not been doing so. However…

In the last few months, things have stabilised dramatically for us, that too-good-to-be-true kind of dramatic improvement in living quality. We have spent it frantically setting our affairs in order, re-writing our will, and sending most of our treasures to our sons, who live in the South Island, which, due to government monopolies, is a very expensive place to be sending large paintings and a chainsaw, not to mention boxes and boxes of books… it is usually cheaper to fly, or post things, to Australia than it is to send them from the North Island, to the South. We have largely accomplished all those goals, have got on board with all the organisations available to support the terminally ill… in New Zealand, if you are terminally ill, you hook up with the ‘Hospice’ organisation, and all your medication/doctor visits/general nursing help, with them, is free, which is very nice, because when you are dying of cancer, you can spend a shit-ton of money on those things.

The thing is, all the crappy things that have happened to our body have all been either directly caused by chemo/radiation treatment, or are side-effects of those nasty things. They are all the things that have, miraculously, settled down, recently, and become manageable horrors, lurking in the wings. The thing that is supposed to kill us within the next 3 months, bowel cancer metastasised in our lungs, is barely even noticeable, yet. We bought a cheap ‘kneeling chair’, which has made it possible for us to sit at the computer for far longer than we’ve been able to, in the last few years. So, here we are, blogging again, literally waiting to die.

Every day, since our recently improved life condition, we go for a fifty minute, pre-dawn walk, which is very good for our soul. Above is a picture from this morning’s walk (: