Well, the results came in over a week ago, but i've been so washed out that I haven't been able to blog about it. It's confirmed that I have Hodgkin's disease, but all is not lost. It has the best recovery rate of all cancers, and the particular subtype of it that I have has the best recovery rate of Hodgkin's subtypes too. However, this means that the next 4 months are a bit iffy. School has been really understanding, and I don't have to do exams for the next 2 weeks and i'm cleared for my preliminary course. Work has also offered to pay me for any work that I do during treatment. At least it'll give me an excuse to do some coding that i've been neglecting for a long time.

I had a bone marrow biopsy today. That's where they insert a massive needle into your pelvis and get bone marrow and bone samples. Yum. It hurt like a son of a bitch. I never want to do that again. Warning to all: do not get cancer because the tests are painful.

I'm not going to bother bitching about the election. PEOPLE ARE STUPID. I had fun handing out Labor how-to-votes on the day. I actually ran out about half way through, and I ended up handing out for the Greens until reinforcements arrive. Speaking of which, I got invited to a Greens branch meeting tonight so i'm going to rock up and see what all the fuss is about. Interestingly enough the Greens bloke I was with was saying that a group of Young Libs physically intimidated a Greens supporter handing out information in the Hornsby mall last week. On hearing that a group of Young Libs were handing out propaganda at a particular booth, he got the poor woman to go over to the booth and take a couple of pictures so she could identify them to the police. She'll be pressing charges. Good on her. The Hitler Youth must be supressed.

Ruddock still managed to get back in, but we managed quite a large swing against him: 4%. We actually won more than the usual single polling booth, too. We picked up an extra two this election, plus almost another 7 around the Hornsby, Brooklyn, Berowra, and Epping Heights booths. Rocking work our candidate has done to pull off such an excellent result. We're all predicting that Ruddock will retire just before next election, cheating us out of a by-election, but at least giving us a new cryptofascist candidate to run over...I mean against.