Green tea beats wine any day!

So this is my first blog entry, my first day replying to others comments and snapshots from their not-so-mundane, daily lives.

I got to thinking "what might be interesting" and didn't get far but I continued (to think) and decided to share my holiday detail. To do this I guess I need to explain some history of my family - medical history.

For the last 8 years, maybe more, my father has sufferd from CLL, chronic lymphatic leukemia. As it has got worse, so he has undergone varying degrees of treatment including 'chemo', pills, hairloss etc.... however last year, in fact toward the end of '04, news was very bad. If I fast forward through the apprehension and tears, we arrive at last January, 2005, when he was cleared to travel across the European continent and go skiing - just one last time. I decided I wanted to share that time-stamp, along with Evie and so traveled there... for one last time.

Well that was last year...but this year was a different story, November '05 brought bad news, a huge jump in bad results for my father. He had actually booked the trip for two weeks in January.... but the doctors asked him to come in for a check one week before his trip to see how his blood cells were doing. Considering the results were bad, we were braced for bad news but were not only satisfied with the results, we were all - doctors included - astounded at the results...it seems that for the first time in certainly his history, the 'bad' cell count went down, a reversal in decline. Or is it a reversal on the rise? Either way, it has been attributed to drinking green tea, two cups a day.

Now I enjoy a drink, or two, a glass of red is always welcome. But I think I shall start on the tea.

Cheers Dad...keep on drinking