Escape the winter blues

Ros and Dave had planned a winter escape to Mission Beach, QLD before Ros found out she had cancer. Because Ros needed to have surgery fairly quickly, followed by chemotherapy, there was no way that they were able to get to their holiday escape in 2009. So they did their homework and found a way to give them something to look forward to. Light at the end of the tunnel. So they postphoned their holiday til the same time in 2010. The owners of the Mission Beach property were happy to swap dates, and so the Mission Beach Escape was booked for July 2010. As Dave had already booked his holidays from work, he was able to use that time on the home front... helping with Ros's recovery from surgery. Other things were happening simultaneously. Dave's boss also needed surgery for cancer, and so did Dave's Brother-in-law (in NZ). So cancer was flavour of the month. It was at this time that Bryce was diagnosed with prostate cancer - but he postphoned surgery til later in the year. (we found out that Geoff Cooper, a friend, also was diagnosed with prostate cancer at this time). A holiday in FNQ. That sounded wonderful. We asked to tag along on this adventure in 2010, as it would give us some tanginble thing to look forward to too. More about Mission Beach in a later installment.