Not much to report today as it was just another day or coping and getting on with life with this daily pain. On the plus side I had a NSV today of buying some new $5 clearance clothes a size smaller and some are two big AND I bought a new towel for Jamie and
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Today I ventured back into the real world. After school drop off I drove into work for a couple hours to have a few work catch up meetings with people before they head off on extended leave. It was so nice to see my friends at work who noticed two distinct things I had shrunk
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Weigh in Wednesday…… after the huge number last week and the majorly disruptive events of the last fortnight I had no idea what to expect on the scales this week. Given than pain also has me laid up as a resident couch dweller I was honestly expecting a small gain this week. This week –
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I decided with everything I have been going through lately that I deserve to spoil myself so I bought myself a Fitbit. It got delivered today so I have spent a lot of today fiddling around with the unit and the app to figure out how to use it. Well it really helped me get
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Today has been a better day, which makes me very glad and somewhat relieved to say this. Last night was the first time in almost a fortnight that I didn’t have an episode overnight waking me up in acute pain. Throughout the duration of the day I only had 1 episode which was not as
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Today I ventured out of the house for the first time in way too long, nothing exciting just to the supermarket but even that absolutely took it out of me. The loud noises, the walking around, the bright lights but I did it, it’s got to be done, I need to be socialised and get
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Yesterday was a horrible day. Not rock bottom but I was certainly very flat and low. I had so many people comment that maybe I need to take a break from my journal so that I could focus on me, but I have been thinking about it and I have decided no actually that’s not
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I promised myself that I would do a daily journal entry every day for one full year post sleeve. Today is the first day that I have regretted making this promise to myself as in all honestly I would much rather crawl up in the corner under a blanket and keep crying rather than do
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Weigh in Wednesday! I missed last weeks weigh in due to my unplanned “holiday” so this week is a double! I was slightly nervous about how the scales were going to read given the up and down nature of the last 2 weeks including a period of almost 6 days where I was nil by
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So I have shared the update earlier today that I am out of hospital. Jamie picked me up and I was at the Chemist by 10am picking up my scripts. On my way out of the hospital Lilian’s rooms called and let me know I need to be at pre-admission at 9am on Thursday but
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