When I created this blog, my intention was to use it as a daily diary, that it might be the main place where I’d share my BIG WALK from Brisbane to Melbourne. But that’s turned into Facebook (www.facebook.com/capsbigwalk) which I use for daily live streaming (on the charity’s advice).

I’m not great with all this social media stuff, and updating multiple locations with the same story – so as I start my BIG WALK in a couple of days 26th, if you want to check in from time to time and see how it’s going, the above link is your best bet. It may be that while I’m away, this website doesn’t get updated at all (but when I’m on the road, I’ll still try different things, in fact I may be lonely and aching for human contact some days, prolifically using all my solar power to stay in touch and over-sharing).

I’ve been nowhere near as active or as diligent as I should, leading up to the BIG WALK.

I’ve been dealing with the threat of a secondary cancer, so have had to deal with hospital time, CT scans, MRI. I still don’t know the result, but hope next week to get a confirm that there’s a thing called a ‘benign meningioma’ (a slow-growing tumour in the lining of your brain that goes under surveillance and can be dealt with surgically if it starts to impact life/health.

It all started with adverse reactions after Jab#1 and #2. Don’t let this put you off vaccination, it’s basically an uncommon autoimmune response you can get to any vaccine – and it’s more common in older folk, apparently. My body over-produced antibodies, and they went on a rampage. Jab#1 was tremendous leg cramps – really horrible, debilitating, escalating cramps over 4 nights. Jab#2 was a more generalised illness – fatigue, soreness, some cramping, bowel issues, concentration issues. And I went suddenly deaf in my right ear, which led to the CT scan and finding this anomalous growth.

Fingers crossed all A-OK, it’s just thrown my planning into disarray.

So I’m leaning on facebook as my main way to record what I do and engage the public – and anything that you can do to help me get the word out PLEASE DO IT. I’m behind in almost every respect, and I set out in ONE WEEK. Yep. One week and I’m on the road.

The image above is Day 1 of my walk. It’s a hefty start, but I want to get out of Brisbane (my home city) as soon as possible. I won’t feel out ‘into the world’ until I get over the border into New South Wales.

So if there’s not much activity here, please check out the facebook page, where I’ll be doing daily posts before and during the BIG WALK:

http://www.facebook.com/capsbigwalk