$1 pizza slices - heaven for Jaan

I'm sooo happy that I've found a cheap meal. There are so many places downtown that hvae $1 pizza slices, and they're pretty big. So for $3 you can get two slices and can of 'pop'. Not bad at all hey? I thought it was pretty good anyway...

So things are slowly starting to setlle down. I'm used to my smallish bed, and my roommates are changing every night. I guess what you're meant to do is stay for one or two nights then move on. What am I doing staying for a whole week?! Oh well. Last night was spent in the dining area watching 3 boys from Seskatchewan chugging down beer while playing cards for aobut 5 hours. Quite amusing. They must have gone through a couple of cases. Not bad stuff.

And some good news - I got my neb out of its case thingy. YAY!!! Now I can do my nebs. It's been so frustrating not being able to. But I think the exercise is helping quite a bit as I haven't done my nebs or too much physio, yet surprisingly I'm quite dry. I don't know why that is, but I'm guessing its all the walking around I've been doing.

So I'm going to talk to a couple of other backpackers and see what there is to do in this crazy town. I'm still waiting on the cf rep here to meet up with her, but apart from that no other real plans. I might go to a hill or something to walk up.

I went to the post office today and found out that it's pretty easy to send over the meds to Montreal. I just need to include a doc note with it. But that's going to be interesting - bringing a suitcase of drugs into town with me on the bus. Oh well, good times!

Either way, ah ha. :) Stay well all, and I'm sure I'll post something again real soon.


And now for our rating. Why, it's a big fat 7.23.

What do you get if you cross a cow with an American city?
Moo York.

First night in Vancouver

I arrived at the hostel yesterday afternoon in a taxi where the driver was quite keen to tell me his knowledge of the city on camera. The hostel is very nice - beautiful building with a great view of the mountains and right on the beach. It's about 20 mins away from the city though, so I'll have to figure out how to get there today to buy some stuff.

My neb is stuck in its plastic holding, so I haven't been able to to any nebs since yesterday afternoon. I'm very annoyed. Hopefully I can get it out soon, otherwise I don't know what I'll do. Let's just hope for the best on that one.

The weather here is very nice too. Low twenties during the day, and nights are quite cool, which is good because the dorms get very hot during the day with the sun shining right into it. Had some crazy dreams last night, but I'm thinking that's due to the sleepness night before mixed in with a very warm room, no food in my stomach and maybe some crazy drugs thrown in.

Anywawy, I should get off here and go out and see some more of loverly Canadia. Take care all and see you soon.

And the rating for today is...

6.5 (still quite tired and probably due to no nebs)

jaanie touches down! (in l.a. that is)

yes, that is true. i have arrived in the city of angels. and its a loverly sunny day. about 23 i reckon. beautiful! a pity im not staying longer. my plane for vancouver leaves in about half an hour me reckons, so not long till im out of the us of a. but im already getting quite pissed off with the keyboareds they have here. horrendous! enough of that.

the flight to sydney was quite rough and not the smoothest flight ive had. the one to la though was quitenice. really smooth, but i didnt get much ssleep. about 3 hours all up i rekon. not to worry, ill cath upo with that soon. la is cool - american cars everywhere, american people,some greasy greasy food. oooh, my lunch was awesome! a big fat hotdog with chili mince sauce, cheese, and a big fat coke. and i bought about 4 chocolate bars that ive seen in movies and tv shows. just to see what they taste like.

health ois going quite good. i did a bit iof physio on the plane, but not too much. the porta neb o=works a treat. but in at the airport i got a good dose of physio in, outside in a little garden area. very nice .eveyone was looking at me thought like i was doing some heavy drugs. funny stuff.

ive also done a bi of filming. not sure if its any good, but im slowly getting used to talking to the camera and its slowly beccoming my frind. so i guess thast good. but it could quie possibly be very boring...

and the biggest thing i was worried about (my drugs) hasnt caused one little hiccup at all. sydney they wanted to have a brief look at them and a glance at my doc letter, but that was it. even in la they didnt really care. dont get me wrong, its all goood but i was kindalooking forward to getting interogated. maybe nexdt time...

anywho, when i get a proper keyboard and proper net acess ill maajke sure to post something better andmaybe do aa couple of emails. but until then, will see you all in net land very soon...

Clinic update

Far out, I deserve a medal. It's been less than a week and I've put up another post. Fantastic if what?? Anywho, I had clinic on Tuesday so I thought I should update everyone on the latest from the doc's office.

I had the usual lung function, and I was very eager to see what that came up with. I ran out of the Ambrotose a couple of weeks ago, so that's probably why I haven't been feeling the best as well. But since getting some more late last week, things have already improved. My cough has increasingly dried up and I'm not quite as short of breath. I was also interested to see if my change of routine for Pulmozyme had any effect. But I'm happy to report that my lung function has gone up another 1% to 67%. Not too bad at all, especially considering how lousy I was feeling a couple of weeks ago.

At the clinic I made sure to do all the things I needed for my trip, such as get doctors letters for the meds, a list of hospitals and clinics I should go to if need be, order my 4 months worth of meds - that's going to be interesting when I pick them up next week. It'll give me some sort of idea of how much room it's going to take up in my luggage. I rang Qantas yesterday and it looks like it's going to be tough to be able to bring them all on board. I'm going to try and sweet talk them though, and we'll see how far it goes...

So yeah, I'm really feeling alot better I'm happy to say, and the trip is now starting to become a reality. I have my ticket in paper, my passport in hand and some nice little vouchers from STA for paying them to take me around the world. The planning for the fundraiser is going swimmingly, and it looks like it's going to be really big. So all you who can get down there, make sure you do so early in the night to get every chance you can to win one of the many fantastic prizes!

I feel a rating coming on... and it's a big fat 8.5

What do you get if you cross a kangaroo with a lamb?
A little woolly jumper.