New member from down Under

Spartan19 · 09-20-2024, 05:44 AM

Well, it has been just over a year almost since I joined. So much has happened in that small time frame. My wife and I went to China for the New Year, my much vaunted plans to visit Chongqing and the factory of my bike fell into a ditch... my wife invited her son and he and his friends made plans for everyday we were there. I barely got to see my friend who was waiting to take me to the factory. I guess it will be next trip.
So, after eight weeks of snow..."Some Spring" and this is Wuhan, so we are not up in the North... we returned home for a month. I needed a holiday from the holiday so to speak.
I had booked eight days in Bali and was looking forward to a simple life of eat, swim, drink and relaxing massages. Seems my wife made other plans while in China and did not tell me until the first morning in Bali. Her son was there with his three friends again. I was gob smacked! Still, it was not his fault, she invited him and he was excited. I did one day and it was white water rafting.
After that day, he showed me what the rest of the holiday was like and all I could say was, I am not up for that stuff. I am to old and to broken to be climbing up and down hills every day. He understood and agreed, then asked if it was ok for his mum to go,

Oh of course I replied, she must go with you LoL. I went to see my friends in Bali, drank beer and went swimming in the pool each day. That was until an Indonesian Government man came to see me. I thought it was about the many visa applications that had been lodged due to online stuff ups, but it wasn't that. It seems way back in 2011 I was single and going out with an Indonesian younger woman. She was studying to be a nurse in Australia. Well it was around the time my PTSD was pretty well out there with the worst of it all and although we lived together most of the time, she sometimes stayed in the nurses living for study or when I was in hospital. We had talked about not making to firm a commitment until I knew I was in a better place. Then she just didn't come back and I figured it could be my moods and her study. WRONG...she was pregnant and went back to Jakarta to have the baby.
She tried to contact me, but the government would not give information out on me due to my work in the military.
So, I find out I have a 12 yr old son now. I meet the ex girlfriend and we talk, nothing is wanted other than to let me know. The Government official also explained that I was to be wary of any scam to get money from me and report to him if that was the case. I did two DNA tests, and they resulted in 99.8% accuracy. One of my medications for my PTSD was skewing the total result by .01 so it seems like it was accurate. I planned to go back in a month to see him and to spend time with him.
We return to Australia and figure a way to tell my wife the situation. WW3 does not get a look in at this time, she says it is all scams, admittedly at this time it is only one DNA test. I decide I have had enough of being fleeced of all my money by women, so I lay down some new rules this year. I have never cared about money etc, because I was military and everything was provided. So, my second and current wife spends it like water running through your hands. Not anymore, before I go, I decided I want to do some things.
I return to Bali and I have an incident on the plane, three surgical hernias and one rips open and starts bleeding internally. Somewhat painful and causes a bit of a panic on the flight, just over an hour out of Bali. Skipping all this stuff, I am grounded for 10 days until I am stable enough to return to Australia. I cannot see my son and it causes me some distress. Additionally the contact from home in Australia is not sympathetic but quite happy...FFS. So, I finally get home and get organised for surgery, this is done after waiting for 14 hours without food or water. Needless to say, my blood pressure is low and weak but they still operate. I wake up in ICU... WTF this is a simple operation, or so I was told. Nope not me, my heart stopped twice during the operation and I was barely able to maintain good blood pressure. I had all sorts of devices on me to compress every part of me to pump blood through my body.

Two days later I am finally able to come out of the ICU and into a normal ward under 24hr observation. The doctor does his rounds and then tells me that he has some more upsetting news. Laughingly, I said what, worse than my heart stopping on the operating table and all of you beating me back to life. He looked at me and said YES!
Oh well I said, might as well tell me while I am laying down and cant move. They found a tumor in your chest and we have to remove it. We don't want to cut you open again, so we are going to do it by shrinking it first and then do an esophageal removal. I looked at him stunned for a minute and then said, bugger me, you're serious right? Yes he said.
I tell you, my life could not be scripted in a soap opera, honestly! So, I am just waiting for the damn thing to lose a few more millimeters and then they will remove it completely. As to what caused it, I have my thoughts but it is not anything they have come across before as in type, location and attachment.
Who would want to come back and live their life over again, Not Me! LoL

09-20-2024, 05:44 AM	#1
Spartan19 Join Date: Aug 2023 Location: Australia Posts: 17	Well, it has been just over a year almost since I joined. So much has happened in that small time frame. My wife and I went to China for the New Year, my much vaunted plans to visit Chongqing and the factory of my bike fell into a ditch... my wife invited her son and he and his friends made plans for everyday we were there. I barely got to see my friend who was waiting to take me to the factory. I guess it will be next trip. So, after eight weeks of snow..."Some Spring" and this is Wuhan, so we are not up in the North... we returned home for a month. I needed a holiday from the holiday so to speak. I had booked eight days in Bali and was looking forward to a simple life of eat, swim, drink and relaxing massages. Seems my wife made other plans while in China and did not tell me until the first morning in Bali. Her son was there with his three friends again. I was gob smacked! Still, it was not his fault, she invited him and he was excited. I did one day and it was white water rafting. After that day, he showed me what the rest of the holiday was like and all I could say was, I am not up for that stuff. I am to old and to broken to be climbing up and down hills every day. He understood and agreed, then asked if it was ok for his mum to go, Oh of course I replied, she must go with you LoL. I went to see my friends in Bali, drank beer and went swimming in the pool each day. That was until an Indonesian Government man came to see me. I thought it was about the many visa applications that had been lodged due to online stuff ups, but it wasn't that. It seems way back in 2011 I was single and going out with an Indonesian younger woman. She was studying to be a nurse in Australia. Well it was around the time my PTSD was pretty well out there with the worst of it all and although we lived together most of the time, she sometimes stayed in the nurses living for study or when I was in hospital. We had talked about not making to firm a commitment until I knew I was in a better place. Then she just didn't come back and I figured it could be my moods and her study. WRONG...she was pregnant and went back to Jakarta to have the baby. She tried to contact me, but the government would not give information out on me due to my work in the military. So, I find out I have a 12 yr old son now. I meet the ex girlfriend and we talk, nothing is wanted other than to let me know. The Government official also explained that I was to be wary of any scam to get money from me and report to him if that was the case. I did two DNA tests, and they resulted in 99.8% accuracy. One of my medications for my PTSD was skewing the total result by .01 so it seems like it was accurate. I planned to go back in a month to see him and to spend time with him. We return to Australia and figure a way to tell my wife the situation. WW3 does not get a look in at this time, she says it is all scams, admittedly at this time it is only one DNA test. I decide I have had enough of being fleeced of all my money by women, so I lay down some new rules this year. I have never cared about money etc, because I was military and everything was provided. So, my second and current wife spends it like water running through your hands. Not anymore, before I go, I decided I want to do some things. I return to Bali and I have an incident on the plane, three surgical hernias and one rips open and starts bleeding internally. Somewhat painful and causes a bit of a panic on the flight, just over an hour out of Bali. Skipping all this stuff, I am grounded for 10 days until I am stable enough to return to Australia. I cannot see my son and it causes me some distress. Additionally the contact from home in Australia is not sympathetic but quite happy...FFS. So, I finally get home and get organised for surgery, this is done after waiting for 14 hours without food or water. Needless to say, my blood pressure is low and weak but they still operate. I wake up in ICU... WTF this is a simple operation, or so I was told. Nope not me, my heart stopped twice during the operation and I was barely able to maintain good blood pressure. I had all sorts of devices on me to compress every part of me to pump blood through my body. Two days later I am finally able to come out of the ICU and into a normal ward under 24hr observation. The doctor does his rounds and then tells me that he has some more upsetting news. Laughingly, I said what, worse than my heart stopping on the operating table and all of you beating me back to life. He looked at me and said YES! Oh well I said, might as well tell me while I am laying down and cant move. They found a tumor in your chest and we have to remove it. We don't want to cut you open again, so we are going to do it by shrinking it first and then do an esophageal removal. I looked at him stunned for a minute and then said, bugger me, you're serious right? Yes he said. I tell you, my life could not be scripted in a soap opera, honestly! So, I am just waiting for the damn thing to lose a few more millimeters and then they will remove it completely. As to what caused it, I have my thoughts but it is not anything they have come across before as in type, location and attachment. Who would want to come back and live their life over again, Not Me! LoL __________________ "Let me pour you a tall glass of get over it.... Oh, and here's a straw you can suck it up with!"
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