tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25936855461799123532023-07-04T05:19:15.234-07:00When the remote mountains call...Here I record the ups and downs of riding my bicycle, and sometimes not riding my bicycleJaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-25537502958498454992012-03-14T07:27:00.000-07:002012-03-14T07:44:26.571-07:00Mid Week HolidayWednesday 21 March is a Public Holiday in South Africa. So I am turning it into a long Weekend and Friday Afternoon The Pretty One and I will pack the Pajero and head West. We will stop just before the Botswana Border west of Zeerust and pitch our tent in a game reserve called Botsalano. There are very basic camping facilities, but we are not there to camp. This is one of my planned stop overs Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-87133493488525217132012-01-19T03:00:00.000-08:002012-01-19T03:00:43.450-08:00The dangers of SquashI decided that 2012 will be a good year to re-visit an old love of mine... Squash. I knew I would have to start slow and that it will take a while to get some mobility into my legs. Since September 2008 I only cycled and then only when I was not being operated on, being radiated or getting chemo. So the legs were getting pretty lazy in the running department, and my leg movement became more and Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-29914301058457225682012-01-18T01:34:00.000-08:002012-02-17T03:47:51.537-08:00Tours 2012 Info sheetI will keep this page updated. Please refer to this sheet regularly. I will send out email reminders as well as Facebook links. (strydomi@iafrica.com or facebook me)
17 Feb 2012
I need a R1000 deposit ASAP so that I can confirm the accommodation.
23 Jan 2012
We need your deposits for tour 1a to confirm your place as I need to book accommodation. I need R2200 per person before 31 Jan Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-7658424055153232542012-01-17T22:40:00.000-08:002012-01-17T22:40:58.313-08:00Nearly Chritmas AgainWell... Nearly...
Christmas 2011 flew past, new years was a blur and the pace is relentless. I think it will be foolish to pack away the Christmas decorations to far...
So what happened since my last post?
My shoulder got better and then one night I slept through without feeling it and then it was gone. The pain, not my shoulder.
We had a few lovely kuiers and cycles in Empangeni with My Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-69865827381069284972011-12-13T05:54:00.000-08:002011-12-13T05:54:24.059-08:00Giant Maiden VoyageThe Date: 5 December 2011
The occasion: Test ride on the newly built Giant:
Verdict: The stem is too long and I will put a shorter stem on, but otherwise everything seem to be perfect.
Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-75774613628477713342011-12-13T05:43:00.000-08:002011-12-13T05:45:28.291-08:00Hassles After The FactMy Pajero was recently liberated of it's radio, just a symptom of the type of person roaming the streets in this beautiful country of ours... So I got a case number from the police (all they are good for lately) and put in a claim with the insurance. They sent me to Gearlock City for the replacement and then the shit started. These guys are really not up to scratch. They had me waiting 2 hours Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-23460225305965997072011-12-08T23:47:00.001-08:002011-12-09T00:22:11.364-08:00Stil the shoulder hurtsPain is something that one cannot just ignore, no matter how hard you try. On Monday night I just could not sleep. The shoulder was hurting really badly. I eventually scratched in the medicine drawer and came across the last tramacet tablet and a single panado tablet. I popped these two and by 01:00 I started feeling drowsy and I could feel the pain ease a little bit.
Tuesday morning I made an Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-86360256458758503142011-12-04T23:05:00.001-08:002011-12-05T04:38:23.591-08:00That shoulder againShortly after starting chemo I developed a sore shoulder. Nobody could shed any light on the cause, but it eventually went away. If the injection I had had anything to do with it then maybe I should go for another injection.
Since Thursday I started developing the same shoulder pain and I was hoping it would go away, but last night (Sunday) it kept me awake for the best part of the night and Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-33576257982696124502011-11-26T21:06:00.001-08:002011-11-26T21:25:23.951-08:00Chemo 22 - FinalChemo 21
27 Nov 2011, Sunday - As the heading says, this is the final post I will do under the CHEMO heading and I hope to now start posting about cycling and other lekker things.
Since last Saturday when I posted nothing much or rather different happened except...
Shortly after posting last Saturday we had an attempted burglary at our house and the only thing that I was liberated of was my cell Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-2908275726901846032011-11-18T20:48:00.001-08:002011-11-26T21:26:17.041-08:00Chemo 21Chemo 22
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19 Nov 2011, Saturday - Last week Wednesday was still much the same story with the recipe books, except that I spent the day in a very hot showroom at Océ, running the first print of the Dis Mos Kos book on one of their machines. Our printer apparently could not handle the type of paper that we wanted to print the books on, but it turned out to be an entirely different problem Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-7603079589745288362011-11-07T22:53:00.000-08:002011-11-18T21:48:59.156-08:00Chemo 20Chemo 21
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8 Nov 2011, Tuesday - It's been a while since I could even think of writing a blog entry or doing anything else but WORK. We are busy with 2 new recipe books and the one book 'Dis Mos Kos' or translated 'It's real food'. It is quite a job to put a book like this together and then there is a deadline and then the clients keep on changing their minds about the layout. This meant IJaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-70507911143675701712011-10-31T05:25:00.000-07:002011-11-07T22:54:20.314-08:00Chemo 19Chemo 20
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31 Oct 2011, Monday - Friday evening turned out to be very quiet on the home front with just me and The Pretty One at home, so I planned to watch the cricket game between SA and Australia, but then rain interfered. They played, but our electricity went out early and only came back on after 24:00. Saturday morning I planned to do some work in the office and then start my bike Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-56267333846389240892011-10-28T04:52:00.000-07:002011-10-31T05:26:38.197-07:00Chemo 18Chemo 19
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If not cycling even 1 km can be called normal, then this was a pretty normal week. The bulk of my daylight time was taken up by a recipe book of about 300 pages that I am busy doing the layout of. On Wednesday Afternoon I went to see the Dr that did the original Cancer op in 2008 and that has been looking after me ever since. He is of the opinion that as long as the tumors is Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-214972698091254252011-10-24T07:36:00.000-07:002011-10-28T04:56:46.426-07:00Chemo 17Chemo 18
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24 Oct, Monday - Where was I? Wednesday's cricket match rained out and then ended wrong, but fortunately I was feeling too groggy to worry. Thursday I felt better than Wednesday but not as good as I was hoping to feel on Friday, and so it went for the weekend. Every day a little better.
We left on Saturday morning to go to the yearly Exploration Society Formal Dinner. The Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-23444323883839730422011-10-19T05:40:00.000-07:002011-10-28T04:54:51.586-07:00Chemo 16Chemo 17
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19 Oct 11, Wed - All the plans I had for riding this past weekend came to nothing. It is difficult to motivate yourself to ride your bike when you know that in 2 days time you are going to feel like a dead dog. So on both Saturday and Sunday mornings we just stayed in bed a little longer until the urge to jump up and go riding actually went away. On Saturday evening we had my Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-10635559411150564012011-10-10T22:56:00.000-07:002011-10-19T05:41:35.830-07:00Chemo 15Chemo 16
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11 Oct 11, Tuesday - During my eye test on Thursday last week the Optometrist said it looks like I have an infection in my eye lids. Had it checked out and it was indeed Blepharitis. According to wikipedia "is an ocular condition characterized by chronic inflammation of the eyelid,
the severity and time course of which can vary. Onset can be acute,
resolving without treatment Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-38304588525730457582011-10-05T23:47:00.000-07:002012-01-18T01:36:58.283-08:00Important dates for 2012Newsletter 2
I am halfway through my chemo treatment and will know early next week what the next 12 weeks will look like. That brings us to December, then it will be time to get this old body into serious shape again.
In the mean time it is a good idea to diarise some dates for two very nice mountain bike trips. For both of these you will only need 4 days leave. The plan is to have support Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-37558012643127846982011-10-05T22:55:00.000-07:002011-10-10T22:57:32.375-07:00Chemo 14Chemo 15
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6 Oct 11, Thu - Tuesday was a normal day with normal things happening and after fiddling more with the shelving system The Pretty One joined me on the tandem for a ride in the afternoon. Yesterday I spent most of the day on the road delivering stuff as well as a longish session with the website guys for our printing business (I will post a link as soon as it goes live). Also Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-45303327403233958012011-10-04T02:23:00.000-07:002011-10-05T22:57:35.944-07:00Chemo 13Chemo 14
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4 Oct 2011, Tue - My white blood cell count was very low on Friday but not low enough to do anything medical about it, so I must just be careful who I kiss... On Saturday morning The Pretty One rose early enough for us to take the Tandem for a 34km ride. We had a lekker kuier Saturday evening with my good friend Anton who turned 60. In between all that I kept myself busy with Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-13247997594005860512011-09-26T23:06:00.000-07:002011-10-04T02:24:15.431-07:00chemo 12Chemo 13
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27 Sep, Tue - Last week Tuesday was the last "normal" day and on Wednesday morning I left early for Wilgers Hospital to draw blood for a white blood cell count. The count was good and chemo was started. The pattern is predictable. Wednesday I am OK. Thursday I start to feel groggy and by Thursday evening the foul taste and smell is back and.the funny feeling on the tummy area isJaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-86883541414829441712011-09-13T07:49:00.000-07:002011-09-26T23:07:04.426-07:00Chemo 11Chemo 12
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12 Sep 2011, Mon - Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go... So does another week start. The Pretty One is pretty motivated to shake off the winter fluff and we went for a ride in the afternoon. Did nearly 30km's, slowly, but it was good. The shoulder is OK, the tiredness is not unbearable as long as I sit in the office behind a computer, so this week is a good week. If all goesJaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-35590172430852866222011-09-06T22:43:00.000-07:002011-09-13T07:52:24.024-07:00Chemo 10Chemo 11
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6 Sep 2011, Tues - Back in front of the plough, but the day turned out fine. I did not get around to do a cycle, but I got a lot of other chores done!
7 Sep 2011, Wed - We had a restless night with the cats discovering bugs. They then jump on the windowsill and in doing so they trigger the alarm. This actually means that spring has sprung and it is time to get down to some Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-81240147568823470182011-08-31T23:44:00.000-07:002011-09-06T22:44:03.565-07:00Chemo 9chemo 10
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29 Aug, Mon - We had a lovely kuier yesterday with Kevin and Vanessa, and the food channel really made a good kook out of Kevin.. Today passed without much excitement, but the blood test was good and I will get round 3 of chemo tomorrow.
30,31 Aug, Tue, Wed - Did a quick tour in the office and by 08:00 I was on my way to Wilgers Oncology. At Wilgers it was the normal drill and Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-25966003885295766172011-08-24T22:25:00.000-07:002011-08-31T23:45:35.770-07:00Chemo 8chemo 9
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23 Aug 2011, Tue - I had a half night's sleep, as 2 of the 3 alarms triggered in short succession at 01h00. The security vehicle arrived eventually but could see nothing wrong. That was that as far as sleep was concerned, so tonight I might have a good rest... It is my mother's birthday today, 70something and going strong. Arriving at Wilgers Oncology this morning it turned out Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2593685546179912353.post-22960845818445237962011-08-23T06:03:00.000-07:002011-08-23T06:07:04.258-07:00Chemo 7Chemo 6
15 Aug, Mon - We had a very lekker kuier yesterday with Johan and Anlie, friends from school days (How long ago is that...). I feel good apart from the shoulder... I will see the heart & lung specialist tomorrow and maybe he can shed some light on the strange pain. Right now it seem as if a very early summer storm with thunder & all is going to hit us.
16 Aug, Tue - Same old, Jaco Strydomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11894260701152574044noreply@blogger.com0