Food for thought. Part 4 WARNING: The pictures in this blog might be disturbing for people with photo sensitive epilepsy. The Test.. We always thought it won't-happen-to-us and that we would never be faced with the reality of how quickly this dis-ease has invaded our family. So much research was done, documentaries watched and a million hours spent reading up on this dis-ease, surely this was not all done in vain, we refused to believe it. The phone calls to my Dad weren't al

Food for thought. (Part 3) The radiation treatments... Full of energy and happy my Dad attended his first session. They drew a map on his body with black marker pens, just to outline where the radiation was meant to be targeted. Scary when I saw how they outlined and marked him. My sister and I were already back in Johannesburg by this time, so all we could do was call in to see how it went. Nothing changed, he said he didn't feel anything really, came home that day and every