I'm in heaven

I'm writing this from the beautiful canary islands it is much hotter than we expected but it is gorgeous! 40 degrees today which is a bit of a killer but it is just rest I need. Me and Kate have had such a laugh already!!! Not looking forward to getting back to the reality of home in a few days but until then I'm in heaven!

Excited, stressed and a little nervous!

This time on Saturday i will be enjoying the sunshine of fuereventura and i cant wait, i didn't really i have not had a proper holiday in over a year as i was using my work annual leave to reduce my hours down over the last part of the year. I think i need a holiday as i am physically and mentally exhausted, i just need to get there in one piece.
With tomorrow the only day to get everything done i think its going to be a long one, oh well i always leave everything to the last minute so that's nothing new. I am sure everything is going to be fine whilst we are there and i know we have a nice time and then when i come home my body can get a strop on as much as it likes but it will not ruin my holiday!! I have a doctors telephone appointment tomorrow to discuss more blood results and i know what he is going to say and i hope it is a simple solution otherwise it will have to wait.
Oh well the next time i update this i hope to be feeling rested and relaxed after a week of doing nothing and not running around after anyone.
One thing i forgot to add, Rosie is still very much alive and is staying with Nicola for a week so i hope she is goo, its odd without her tonight, i think i have grown more attached to her than i thought.
Oh well must crack on with all my jobs!!!

busy time with a body that is rebelling!!

why is life so busy, i never seem to have enough time in the day and as a result my body is getting in a strop. This morning i couldnt even get out of bed as i ached from head to toe and i just felt generally rubbish, anyway i got there eventually and no one really noticed so that was ok. I am starting to think i have taken on a bit to much and i feel bombarded with it all.

I am really behind with several things and now dont really know how to catch up, oh well i guess i will do.

I am trying to stay as well as possible before my holiday which is now only a week on saturday away, i cant want as it will be the rest i need and a time to relaz. I think my body is trying to tell me to slow down as i have a constant headache and just feel yucky as well a bit out of breath, nothing major just annoying really.

I think i need an early night tonight to see if that helps. 

Oh well im just whinging now so i think i should end it there, hopefully the next few days will be different.

xx

Quick update

I haven't updated this for a while so thought a quick catch up was appropriate. The past few weeks have been busy with one thing and another with work, home and what seems like lots of hospital appointments. As for home everything is plodding along and me and grandad now seem back in our own routine again so that's one thing, the last few weeks I have been thinking much clearer and finally asked for some help from someone that I had been wanting to ask for for ages, anyway I did and I think it has sorted something out which is good. The most exciting news is that I am going on holiday in two weeks with my best friend, it was a bit of a last minute decision but it's now booked and we fly on the 12th may, I am very excited and looking forward to the rest. I know many people think we are stupid going away but like I have said before I need to live my life and make the most of what I have, my medical team know and although they were a bit worried they had to agree I am not silly and would be veto careful. So that's it we are of and I can't wait. Work is fine, just busy but thats normal I am now on shorter hours and Its nice if I can get away on time. As for health things are about the same I had a Southampton appointment and he decided the methotrexate wasn't working and was causing other problems so this has been stopped, I am disappointed but I can see his point. He is still keen for me to have the surgery on my stomach and he has said if that doesn't happen there is a new steroid sparing drug I voud try, other than that he said my lung function is still appalling, so yet again it is a waiting game, I saw the gastro surgeon who was lovely but not keen to do surgery, however he did agree to do three new tests to check my swallow etc and then see him in 6 weeks for a final decision. I have also seen the respiratory nurse and looked at all my medications as there are so many and it is getting confusing, any way she offered to get them blister asked for me if I want on a weekly basis, I wasn't keen on this so I have bitted the bullet and asked Kate to help me, she has helped me sort out all that I have and a couple I was taking at the wrong time, do now I think they are sorted, I can usually sort the out myself but when my oxygen levels are low I do feel a bit muddled and I think then I look at all the boxes and think, of f@@k where to start! Anyway that's done and although I felt odd asking for help I did it.m Another situation is a annoying me and I'm not going to say my here as its delicate and I need to sort it out myself, I I hate being used and I feel like someone is taking advantage, I have no idea where I stand and the situation has changed very much, oh well I guess time will tell and I just have to wait. Anyway I have a dy of housework and shopping ahead then I am going to collapse with exhaustion on the sofa later.

missing you more than ever!!

Tomorrow it will 13 years since the decisions was made to turn of my mums life support machine, i will never get over that day and as much as it has become more bearable it still hurts.


In the beginning  i used to look down the road and wish it was all a mistake and you would walk back into our lives. 
Such a lot has happened since then and life has changed so much in good and bad ways. Everyone has moved there lives forward and i know that 13 years is a long time but i dont think people realise how much they should appreciate there mums, i never told mine often enough and have lots of regrets. I miss not being able to ask her advise and having her to lean on. I wonder what life would be like now if she hadn't gone!!
I think people should be grateful for what and who they have as it can be taken away very quickly.


This is a poem i wrote a few years ago for my mum so thought i would add it here.
It broke our hearts to lose you, but you did not go alone Part of us went with you the day God called you home.A million times we have thought of you, a million times we have cried.If loving could have saved you, you would have never died.Forgive me Lord, while we always weep.For the one we loved, but could not keep.You were always warm, happy and bright Now we see you sparkle every night.You will always be cherished in our hearts forever. Family and friends


Tomorrow is going to be hard but i guess its just another day.




Apart from this going on this week i have had a good week, i managed to catch up on loads of work and have such a laugh doing it.  I have also spent some time with Kate and it has been so nice, just like old times i think i forgot how much of laugh we can have. 


As for the hip that's driving me mad, it infected so i am on more antibiotics. I have been lectured today about walking on it as i was told not to but that's easier said than done but tomorrow i will try and use the crutches, if i break my neck then i can tell them i told you so!!


Oh well not alot else to say
xxx

Need to hide till after Thurssday

Blogging is a funny things, its like having a diary but you forget that people might read it, i don't really care who reads this and i never think of it like this. This is my way of letting of steam and i suppose a way of being able to look back and see how things  have moved on.
This week is the week i hate every years, last night would of been 13 years since my mum collapsed and was rushed to hospital with a blood clot on the brain, i will never forget that night and often think what we could have done differently and also i guess how life would be so different now if she was still here.
Thursday  will be 13 days to the day when we made the awful decision to turn of her life support machine, i know we did the right thing as she always said she if a situation ever arose then make sure the machine was turned of as she didn't want to be in a vegetative state.
I still wonder if she knew something was wrong (although im not sure how she could) but that week she had made sure we had cupboard full of food and that everything was done around the house, i know it sounds silly but we always went shopping on a sunday so why on this week did she go two days earlier, we will never know i guess. I cant wait until after tuesday then we can move on for another year, It never hurts any less you just get used to it i guess.

This week has been a busy week, I saw my local consultant, actually both of them and they were really nice, they have no new answers apart from the fact that my lung function is at an all time low and there is not a lot they can do as i am on every drug available. They are going to speak to the surgeons again and i have an appointment at the end of the month to see if they will reconsider, i think its grasping at straws but who knows. I am also going for another test to check my swallow etc but not sure when. I did  finally get some answers to why i have been feeling so rough, i had some blood tests which showed very low iron levels and a very high white cell which explains why i have been so tired, first of we though the white cells was a chest infection but on friday i suddenly developed a swelling on my hip which turned into an abscess and has now burst (which is yuck) i have been given some antibiotics and told not to weight bear for a week. It is so painful i could cry. I'm not sure how i am going to cope at work this week as walking around is agony and if i use crutches then i have to put up with everyones comments. I have hopefully got some sit down jobs so i will see what i can do.

I have resigned myself to live for today and not worry about the future as who knows what might happen, i  am so grateful to have such lovely people around me and as usual kate has been an absolute star and supported me completely, she means a lot to me and she knows it, im not sure where i would be without her i just wish that i had more energy to do things, like going out etc. Although she says she doesn't mind i still wish things were so different. Oh well one day!!

I don't really have anything interesting to say so i guess its time to sign of for now and try and have a sleep after i have taken some super strong painkillers.

Lazy day

After a busy week today I am finding it hard to have any energy to get up!!
This week I have a busy week again and today I was planning to get organised but so far not a chance.
Yesterday I had a lovely day and then at the end of it I was in floods of tears! I think little things make you realise what you don't have and how life could be so different, I'm not going to say much more about it, just I wish things were so different.
Anyway my best friend said to be in the week that I need to start living my life and going out and having more fun, she was so right but it's easier said that done, definitely something to work
On though.
Oh well everything is plodding along and that's ok with me.
I really should get up and get things done, that's when I drag my butt out of bed! !