There's the meeting with the Doctor where weight loss surgery was suggested. The follow-up meeting where it was chased up. And the two friends who have undergone said surgery in the last three months alone.
I've been following keto since December, with a break for Christmas, and according to the scales have lost the grand total of 11 lbs. Near-daily photos of my face show a difference but that could just be lighting, eyebrow makeup and the angle of the phone - according to me anyway.
For my birthday, I decided to shave most of my hair off and bleach it blonde. Yep, I'm finally going blonde - I've wanted to do it for nearly 30 years but have always chickened out as I thought my mother would disapprove (believe me, I KNOW I have mummy issues and there isn't enough room in this post to go into it). Now, this decision was also based on the idea that the newly installed wet room would mean I can shower regularly and wash/dye my hair myself - some independence at last!! Into the third week of the renovation (that was meant to last a week to ten days), and the hope is dwindling. My birthday is Friday and although the shower is working (at the moment), the water pump is not which means the water doesn't drain away.
We don't need another flood and the cats object to getting their paws wet, so no shower for me.
It's been - well, difficult is the polite word for it. I'm not sleeping; the cats are stressed because of strangers in and out all day as well as the noise; Stripes is stressed because she's trying to look after everyone and make it all okay when it's completely out of her control; and Little Monster gives no f*cks whatsoever because that's her MO. Things got even more stressful when Little Monster called from school on Friday saying she wasn't feeling well. She threw up on Sunday which meant mandatory two days off school - during which time she has driven both me and Stripes completely insane. Thank God she's going back tomorrow, but not before making sure to pass her leurgy on to me. Which is why I'm awake at 05:39 on a Tuesday night, when I should be resting/sleeping. I'm halfway through a roll of toilet paper blowing my nose and wishing that sneezing didn't make my back seize up nearly every single time. The pain of trying NOT to sneeze is almost as bad as the pain when I do!
So, very quick catch up because I should at least attempt to turn the lights off, put on the CPAP mask and close my eyes before 6 am.
January : I helped make one batch of soap. Stripes has made several more and they are getting more beautiful and more intricate as she goes. Beautiful enough to use as birthday presents for family and for them to ask where we got them from.
February:
- grow my eyebrows (they are shamefully sparse),
- bleach my hair
- live in the shower for at least a week
- keep on keto
March: to be decided, although hopefully keto will still be ongoing and my eyebrows will be becoming bushy!
We went to the Dr in January for a smear test. And it was just as enjoyable as you might expect. The room they wanted us to get to was awkward with the wheelchair - sort of round a corner and through a narrow doorway into a small room; the bed they wanted me to lie on was narrow and kinda scary; and the privacy was non-existent to be frank. But hey, I managed it and the results were fine so check that off the list. The next doctor's appointment was worse because the room where it was held was through a doorway that was too narrow for the wheelchair, so I had to lean against the wall whilst Stripes semi-put the chair down and dragged it through the doorway, set it up again and caught me as I collapsed into an ungainly heap. No members of staff tried to help us - a member of the public kept the door open for us to get through.
And this is a relatively new doctor's surgery which has disabled parking, some automatic doors and lifts. It beggars belief, it really does.
So I haven't been out and about much - a trip to Asda has been the most adventurous I've got, and that was FUN because I was on a mobility scooter and could race Stripes and Little Monster down the aisles!
I will try to write more, but I've been feeling rather low and rather useless - what do I have to write when I don't go anywhere or do anything?
Well apart from the Thirty Seconds to Mars concert we are booked to go to in March; and that rain or shine, we are going to the cinema to see 'Black Panther'; and probably going to the cinema to see 'Fifty Shades Freed' because not only is it delicious trash, but it has Tyler Hoechlin in it and he is one of my current 'crushes' (six years and counting so far). But apart from that, we won't be going out much, honest.
Yeah, I'll write more - I promise!
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