Lismore to Lawnton, Lowood to Lawnton

Heading back to Brisbane (Lawnton S/G) via Lismore. We spent 2 days in Lismore where we had to get some repairs done on the Cruiser (split steering boot). It must have got hit by a rock somewhere along the road.  Stayed in Lismore Tourist C/P.  It had about 8 tourist sites and the rest of the park was permanents. At least it was cheap ($20 for powered site).  Lismore is a large country town that looks like it is growing fairly quickly. We replaced our footstools there as well, so we are doing our small bit to help the country's economy.
We had an appointment with Dr. D my Dermo on Fri Pm at the other side of the city .They organised DVA transport for us and away we went.  He discovered?? a small dark black mole at the top of my chest, even Lea missed it in her regular checks.  He said it looked like a Melanoma so he chopped it out to send away for testing. Normally that takes about a week, so we set off for Lowood on the way to meet some Kedron friends at Boondooma Dam.  On Monday morning we got a phone call from Dr.Ds. surgery telling me that the tests had come back as stage 2 Melanoma and we were to come back to Brisbane to have it further excised at 3pm.that afternoon. So we did a very quick pack up ready to head back to Brisbane.That is when the trailermate jack decided to sh#t itself.  Luckily a bloke nearby had a hydraulic jack to help us hitch up and we hit the road back to Lawnton Show-grounds.  With the operation he cut 2cm deep, 2cm across and about 8cm long.  Luckily he did all internal stitches(it seemed like about a hundred of them) and no outside stitches, only temporary steristrips which come off after about a week.It was all pretty scary at the time ,but now I am clear for another 4 months.
We went to Kedron Caravans to see if they knew anyone who could fix the Trailermate jack, as without it we could not unhitch.  Glen sent us to Aussie Escape caravan repairs just up the road. We already had the service kit, but they said it could not be done till after Easter (bugger!!)  We left it there and went back to Kedron and Glen Gall, bless his soul, gave us a loaner till the other one was repaired.  Thank goodness for  that as we would have been really stuck.  I was in enough pain as it was, without the extra stress of that.