Easter Holidays

Well, it's not been the best start to the Easter holidays - putting my back out and on top of that Adrian is away in America on a work trip this week!  Luckily I have my wonderful friend Liz here to help me out with the kiddies :-)

My back has been a bit of a worry as it's never been this bad before and I had several days of excruciating pain making even the smallest of movements.  However after a few Chiropractic treatments from the wonderful Anna and her colleague, Beth, I feel I am on the way to recovery even if it is slower than my impatient self would like!  I have also once again confirmed I am pretty impervious to narcotics, so no chance of me ever becoming an addict!  Diazepam, Co-codamol and oramorph on top of my regular amytriptaline, all had pretty much no effect on pain and not even the slightest hint of an altered mental state......disappointing really.  I'm surprised they managed to knock me out for a general anaesthetic as I seem to be so immune to medication!

In other news, I finally complained at enough people that I have an MRI date for next Tuesday.  Despite being told by 3 different people that it was all in hand and in the process of being done....over six weeks after the specialists in Southampton requested a detailed orbital MRI it had still not been ordered.  The Breast care nurse was most apologetic on the phone on Friday and said she had called the department herself to request the appointment.  So, thankfully, said appointment arrived in the post this morning.  I am pretty convinced that the specifics of what is to be done have been lost along the way and I will have to check on Thursday when I go for my post-op appointment that the radiologists have been told what scans need to be done.  I've said it before, the NHS is amazing and we are definitely lucky to have it but there is something wrong somewhere and it can be very frustrating.  Anyway at least it looks like things are moving forward with my eye investigations, it's just lucky that things have not got much worse while hospitals and departments have been faffing around.

If all is well from post-op and I'm not in for any more surgery, and my back is up to it, we will be off to Plymouth to stay on the boat for a few days over Easter weekend.  I'm not holding my breath and getting too excited about it as my life does not seem to want to run smoothly at the moment but it would be nice to get away for a few days.

Once again, some of my lovely Tiny Talk families have organised a coffee morning, this time in Milford on Sea at the Community Centre.  It will be on Tuesday 29th of April 9.30-11.30, so any local people, if you are free please come along for some lovely cake and tell your friends.  All proceeds will be going to Shine Cancer Support.