I love my family. I love the small circle of family, made up of myself, my husband and our son. I love the wider circle too, as I am very lucky to have a close family who all take care of each other.

I don’t think my mum realised, until recently, how bad my health had got. Then I stayed with her earlier in the year in her farmhouse and she saw how bad it can be. As a result, she phoned me last week to tell me she was coming to visit and bringing my brother. Small was exceedingly excited at the prospect of having his Granny and Uncle come to visit and was counting down the days. When they arrived yesterday, my mum had brought her cleaning supplies with her and proceeded to clean my oven, my kitchen, my bathroom, vacuum through, dust, and do laundry. She knows how much I struggle with housework, and although my husband does some it is not the same as if I was able to do it. I was so grateful, as it is much easier to keep on top of the little jobs when the house has been cleaned through. Of course, while she was busy cleaning we chatted and my brother entertained Harlan, who had a brilliant day. Mum has suggested that she comes up once a month to help with jobs I can’t do, like cleaning the oven or washing windows. Keeping in mind the fact that she travels over a hundred miles to see me, I think this is pretty amazing. I hope that when Harlan is grown up I will be able to help him as much as my family still helps me.

Changing doctors has been…. interesting. I am waiting for my notes to come through so I can get a referral to the pain clinic. In the meantime my old doctor has been fantastic and ensured I have enough medication to see me through.
I don’t know which one, but one of my medications is causing me to be even worse in the heat than normal. I always have trouble regulating temperature but I feel even hotter than normal at the moment. It’s a recent thing so I am wondering if it is the Tramadol.
Later I am off to basketball 🙂 I was struggling with maintaining two hours training a week so I swallowed my (not inconsiderable) pride and spoke to one of the coaches. As a result, last week I did part of the session training with the league players and then went and did some dribbling and shooting drills for the rest of the time. I felt like I made progress in terms of improving my skills, without half killing myself! Hoping for the same result today.

I am hoping to be ‘on the road’ soon with the 2nd hand Quickie GPV wheelchair I bought on eBay. It needs two new front casters and will need new tyres soon but it was a bargain.