Just a quick one..

 

Not a lot to say, it hasn’t been a good week. No weigh in as I’ve not been good. Just can’t keep it together. 

Had hand therapy last week, given exercises to do and a brace to wear on my hand at night. Worn the brace once and ended up throwing it across the bedroom at 1am….my hand was in agony. Not wearing it again!! Exercises are ok, I’m managing them. Massaging the scar tissue on my palm and that I can see is working. It’s itchy as well so it’s healing. Little finger is still swollen, hopefully in time the swelling will go down. Therapist gave me some tape to tape the finger and I do that all day. 

Son not going to improve. Has no interest in giving up the lifestyle he is living atm.  He went back to work today but got sent home because he camped out the night before and was dirty. You can’t work with meat with dirty hands. He is having a shower here tonight so hopefully he will be clean in the morning.  

Gotta go. Dishes to be done, and kitchen tidy up. I’ve got work in the morning.

Missing my buddy…

 

First up….the pic above is kids that represented the grandies school in the Interschool sports day recently. A small group isn’t it? Their school is small, 175 students from kindergarten to year 6.  The above competed against 5 other “smaller” schools ( each of them averaging 300 to 500 students) in the locality and amazingly came home with 2 age champions plus a shield for their sizzling performance on the day. They did amazing for such a tiny school. William is in the pic, he competed in high jump, hop skip and jump, and the year 6 100 metre relay which blitzed the field. 

They did amazing. So proud of them. 

My finger is healing very well. Have some nerve soreness happening atm but from what my surgeon tells me it is expected and occupational therapy will help with that. I start that on Wednesday. 

I had my pre-admission for my cataract surgery on my right eye today. That’s rapidly approaching, have the op on 4th June, and the left eye on 2nd July.  Hopefully that will be the end of surgeries for awhile. After all the follow up appointments I hope we can plan a long weekend getaway. Only thing is with son not living here there is no one to look after the cat, ducks and chooks.  Yeah son still living “homeless” with his druggie “mate”. Still doing drugs, still spending his wage (he is on annual leave atm and receiving holiday pay) in 2 days. He had a 1,000 dollars for the week and spent that all in two days. That included his loan payment of $125.00. Then had the nerve to ask me for money. No way. Still no angry he chooses this life. 

I’m missing my bestie, my jabber buddy. She and her hubby have just finished 2 weeks in Italy and now are in Greece, spending 2 weeks there too.  I’ve done no real walking since she’s left. Admittedly I’d my op recovery but still I could get out and move my butt. I just can’t be bothered. I’ve spent some time out in the garden last few days and done some repotting of my succulents.  Guess that’s moving 😳😘  

Anyway weigh in day…..and after a pretty good week of NO chocolate and eating proper portioned meals I managed a small loss….. remembering I didn’t weigh last week after a week long binge session. 

Below is Smudge. Our cat. Our very expensive cat. Friday night she was in a lot of distress and acting like she had something stuck in her throat. A quick trip up to the vet found she had a temp and an inflammation of the throat. A needle to settle down the inflammation, some antibiotics and some inflammatories and a few hundred dollar bill we were sent home. 💵  We are very lucky with our vet Dr Rob, he’s a big man, with huge but gentle hands. I had a follow up phone call today to check up on her. She’s nearly back to normal. I’m not her most favourite person atm as I’m the one that makes her take her medicine 💊 💊 

It’s work for me tomorrow morning, so time to wind up for the night and head to bed. Busy day ahead as I have appointments in the afternoon, and as Mum works tomorrow afternoon will be taking Miss Summer to her dance classes. 

My get up and go…..

 

For the past few weeks my get up and go has GONE. I just feel so blah, have no motivation at all. I feel lost and just can’t be bothered.

I know some of it is recovering from hand op, that has restricted any exercise. No mojo anyways. Now that I have had bandage off, stitches out and have been cleared to work light duties and to go walking at a moderate pace with no exerting myself I need to find some. Also got some occupational therapy to start attending next week. Then I think, gee it’s only a few weeks then I have my first eye surgery done. 

I can’t sit and mope around indulging in treats most of the day reading like I have done.  I did have a few good days where I ate sensibly, it hasn’t been all bad but the chocolate finds its way back. I was hoping to get some scrapbooking done but I haven’t even been in to get photos printed. I have so many pages that need doing. Want to get an album done of our big trip we did last year before I forget where we actually went…. 🤦‍♀️😳

I know this relapse of my son has really thrown me. I still can’t believe he’s gone and done this. I did ask him when he came home last week to get his fishing drone if he was going to go back to work (he’s on annual leave atm) and get his life on track. He said he was. But then Kylee saw him down the beach a day later “so spaced out” I just can’t believe that he could throw away the life he had to go live like he is for the sake of a drug. Really I shake my head. I just can’t believe that he could do this to himself (and us) after living that life so many years beforehand, surely he must remember how hard it was. 

Mother’s Day yesterday. Simon and Kylee and kids came out and spent half the day with me. Some yummy chocolates were given and eaten too. Even troublesome one rang and wished me Happy Mothers Day. 

These two when they get together usually always end up wrestling on the lawn…can’t help themselves. 

Right…..time to go start dinner.

BTW…. no weigh in. I don’t want to know. 

Recovery

 Well I knew my finger was going to be sore, BUT I honestly didn’t think it was going to be as bad as it has been. Today is the first day without some prescribed drugs. Today it’s just been uncomfortable. I just want this bandage off, honestly it’s a pain, but it has to stay on till I see the surgeon and that’s still 4 days way. It’s going to be embarrassing, the bandage, it’s so “grotty” already. I’ve tried to be independent and do things myself by using my thumb on that hand to hold things but yeahhhh…😘😳🤦‍♀️ I did put a sock on over it, but it felt too tight so I took it off. 

Today is the first day in over a week I think that I’ve eaten sensibly. Chocolate has been a daily “treat” BUT it had to end sometime and I made today the day. 

Anyways time to see if I can get some sleep 😴