The end of the road?!

In some way, faith doesn’t let me work (on Tasmania there was hardly some work for me). It’s not that I’ve been fired, no it’s even more worse. I’m not able to work due to a hernia, a double to be correct. It explains the back problems I had on my Cockle Creek trip and the occasional pain in my right leg. From the moment I started picking fruit it seemed the problems have got worse and just before Eastern I decided to see a doctor to see what’s wrong as I barely could walk. His first diagnose was a Sciatica (lower back hernia) but to be sure he sent me to in Wagga Wagga to get a CT-scan. The result of the scan (which I had 2 days ago) showed the same thing he thought it would be (disc bulges). The horrible thing for me now, is there is nothing to be done at the moment as the doctor said in this stadium an operation (the only remedy) wasn’t necessary yet.

In between the first visit to the doctor and the day of the CT-scan I’ve been laying on the bed for the most of the time and I can say to you that I wasn’t happy with that. Especially as I am here to actually see something of Australia. This hernia is a big blow towards my travelling plans. I still didn’t start my tour of Australia. Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kakadu National Park, Darwin, Cairns, Great Barier Reef, Gold Coast, Sydney, Great Ocean Road (with the 12 Apostles) and what else I still was about to see looks now light years away from me. I can’t predict how long these problems will hinder me from doing the things I want to do and thus I don’t know if I will stay in Australia until the end of my visa. Looking to the current situation I don’t think this will happen. The coming few weeks I’ll see what happens and I’ll make some daytrips to see what I can do and what I can’t do. These things will help me in my decision either to go back home to the Netherlands or staying in Australia and trying to find some work that I am capable to do without taking to much pressure on my back.

There is also some other news. Mid March we finally moved to the new house which my brother and sister-in-law bought back in January. I’ve seen the house before on the last evening of my parents being here in Australia, but now all the furniture is on its place it feels like a familiar place to stay.