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English - Paediatric Cancer, Rhabdomyosarcoma, Wouter
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Krokkenoster · 1W ago

Gee thanks, my child

Carien’s pre-primary class is learning about cows, milk and the connection between the two.  And strangely, my child who is fussy about everything else is quite fine with the idea of milk coming from the cow.  Maybe because she used me as a cow until she was 3, almost 4?  She still has a boob-fascin
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Krokkenoster · 3W ago

Good grief

Tomorrow I start working again. On 19 December 2008 I left work to go on leave.  I never went back.  And now, 3 and a half years later, I am leaving my kids at home to rejoin the work force. I couldn’t put my finger on why I was so deeply depressed the last month. [...]
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Krokkenoster · 1M ago

A day in the life

Hallo again.  I find myself with the urge to update but I don’t know what  I want to write.  Surprise!  It has become the new theme of the blog. We had a surprisingly exciting day.  After lunch at my mom’s house Wouter broke out in hives.  He was itching and rash-ing from head to toe. [...]
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Krokkenoster · 1M ago

Carien at her best

Wouter and Carien visits my mom.  They decide to play “run run”.  The rules are simple.  They stand in a row.  My mom has to run to the gate, then Carien, then Wouter.  I didn’t say it was a complicated game. They are ready to run.  Carien (who thought up the game, the rules, the [...]
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Krokkenoster · 2M ago

Remembering

Today 2 years ago Stephen du Toit passed away suddenly. And I am remembering.
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Krokkenoster · 2M ago

Contradictions

There have been a couple of times when 2 months’ worth of things happened in 2 days. Mostly because I procrastinated when I should’ve been studying and then tried to cram everything into my poor brain overnight. Literally. I’ve said it a number of times and I’ll repeat it here too: If it wasn’t for
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Krokkenoster · 2M ago

3 year anniversary

Today we celebrate 3 years of remission.  3 years.  An eternity and a heartbeat at the same time. I don’t have words today.  Overwhelmed?  Maybe.  Emotional?  Definitely.  So here is the post that I did about that day 3 years ago when we were told that all Wouter’s cancer was gone. For now we are [.
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Krokkenoster · 2M ago

What can you do with R50?

Buy 5 loaves of bread. Buy 7 liters of milk. Buy 5 liters of diesel.  If you are lucky. Buy 1% of an iPad. Fold a paper plane.  See it fly over the wall and disappear. Roll with tobacco and make a very expensive cigarette. Now I’m done thinking.  You can think up some more suggestions. See, [...]
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Krokkenoster · 2M ago

ABCDEFG

This is me forcing a post out of nothing.  I am convinced that something will take form once I get going.  Or I hope it will.  For your sake.  Because reading through 7 paragraphs of me typing whatever gets into my head just to keep going until I get going will not be pleasant. Good [...]
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Krokkenoster · 2M ago

Someone hand me the tissues

Tomorrow morning I am talking in church.  We are in the middle of a course about obedience and I will discuss Woutertjie’s story.  How we had to come to a stand still and really listen to what God wanted to say to us. For the record, I still don’t know exactly what He was saying. [...]
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