17th November
2012
People are all that matter - The rest, it's just
stuff!
Well yesterday was a mix of emotions, mom has a
real fear of choking so getting her to let them put a tube down her throat was
never going to be easy, and she did get a bit worked up and upset so when I
left I was a little upset too. It was
all necessary though and worth it, the good news is there was no signs of
cancer - I can honestly say cancer never crossed my mind, I actually hadn't even thought about what it might have been because I didn't see the point of doing that, as the pic above says 'stress less', 'thinking' about what could be doesn't help a situation so I tend not to do it, unnecessary worry isn't it. The doctor informed us that here are things wrong she can't necessarily be cured of her problems but all can be treated and her symptoms will
hopefully ease. Her hiatus hernis which
she’s had for 25 years or more to my knowledge is now 6 times the size of what is
considered the norm! Her stomach and oesophagus
is a bit of a mess too, so they’ve took swabs to get for all sort of things because
her symptoms could be any number of things!
Of course mom being a hypochondriac is going to love this once she gets
over the anesthetic and realises she really has got something wrong with her,
she will make me write it all down so she can tell everyone and anyone who will
listen – yep she’ll be thrilled!
Obviously when someone’s been anaesthetised they
can’t be left for 24 hours so we didn’t do a lot yesterday other than sit in
front of the tv!
It meant I missed my business development meeting
with the leaders on my area and my boss, which was last night – I never miss
them so it seemed odd that I wasn’t there.
And I got a call from my boss to explain that she totally understood why
I wasn’t going to make it but had something she needed to tell me beforehand
because it did involve me. This was when
my day really did improve, apparently I’ve been awarded a ‘Role Model’ award
and I’m absolutely over the moon about it, on our employee site this is what it
says; The Role Model award
recognises and rewards, on a quarterly basis, the employees who consistently
exhibit the Values in their roles or towards key business objectives. And the winners have to be nominated by their
colleagues, its just fantastic to know that four of my colleagues nominated me
for this award, really made my day it did.
I’m absolutely thrilled xx
Okay so back to reality
and a busy day ahead, Alfie needs a good walk because he didn’t get one
yesterday afternoon as I couldn’t leave mom, I need to do some cooking, bit of
shopping and housework – oh yeah rock and roll baby!
Just worked out
Christmas is 39 days away and to say I’m excited is a bit of an
understatement! I can remember the last
time we actually celebrated Christmas, we usually go away and chill out
instead, none of the hassle, but because we’re taking kids with us this year,
we’re doing Christmas how it’s meant to be done and I’m loving it, walking
round the shops looking for ideas, and I’m not talking spending a fortune
either. Poundland has some fabulous
stuff in it and Asda has cheap stuff too, we’re off to the German Market next
Friday, I’ve never been so that’ll be fun too.
I shall be making some
of my gifts this weekend too, well putting them together anyways.
I still want to lose a
few pounds before them though, now I’ve got under that stone on the scales, I’d
like to take it down a bit further so I can enjoy Christmas without worry, I think
my members have realised that this week too, some great results on the
scales.
This week I’m starting
Saturday on track and with all my ProPoints logged, I didn’t have the
healthiest day yesterday, felt guilty making breakfast as mom was nil by mouth
so just grabbed a banana, had toast later and it didn’t really improve much
after that. I will rectify that today,
going to make a chicken curry I think, cheese and potato pie and corned beef
hash, that’ll last all weekend that will, and might even tempt mom with some of
it, she’s got to eat 5 small meals rather than 3 larger ones the doctor
advised. Getting her to eat at all is
the challenge at the moment, there’s us all trying to lose weight and she’s
dropped a stone in a month!
Right it may only be
5.30am and you’re all still asleep but I’m off to prepare vegetables for my
cooking – me odd – not at all! Having
said that we were in bed extremely early last night after our big day.
Have a great day – make it all about taking care of YOU and those you
love! As I said at the beginning of this post - people are all that matter - The rest, it's just stuff!
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