Well I stopped writing the blog for a whole year.
The combination of drugs and weariness had a very debilitating effect on me after I returned. The thing that changed is that I stopped taking my Endone (Oxycodone) totally. The long term effect that those pills had on me was simply that I had lots of 'will power' but less and less physical energy. By the time mid August 2014 came, I was in such a vegetative state, that all I could do was sleep, let the dogs out, clean the kitchen and put the garbage bins out weekly. Even going shopping was tiresome let alone maintaining the house or lawns.
I actually lost some weight as I totally lost my appetite. I'm around 84kg now.
In any case, my Endone days are gone voluntarily and I'm feeling more focussed and I'm pushing myself little by little.
I now damn myself as it has been too long away from this blog to remember my train of thought and the sequence of events. Fortunately, I'll be reconstructing my trip through the remaining photographs and some diary entries.
I re-read what I wrote so far and I must say that it's been pretty accurate. I am amazed by my Marafko family and I'm very proud of them. That is enough motivation to complete this blog, at least until I had returned. There's a lot more to write after that concerning the genealogy part. Something that I need to share.
Stay tuned.
Peter
