Bhruitíneach, athruithe, Béiríní agus an saol nua

Complications, changes, teddies and new life.

Well Mand had her hand done.  Huge bandage and she's in far more pain than she let's on.  She tries to hide it, but she can't hide it fully.  When the bandage finally came up (more out of curiosity to what her stitches looked like...) we saw the extent of the bruising.  Jeesh it's everywhere and looks really bad.  The stitches are pretty though, although I wouldn't use big black thread!  Trying to keep Mand from doing things, but that's even more tiring than trying to cope with poorliness.  But she shall not win.  I will make her rest!

The blood results have come back but I don't know what they all say.  They wouldn't tell us over the phone when we rang (like normally happens) so we had to wait for the doctor to ring on Monday.  He told me that the glucose and cholesterol results were really high considering I'd fasted, so that is going to be sorted first.  An appointment was made to see the nurse today, but she rang up and changed it to tomorrow night as she needs longer with me.  I think we are going to try and tackle things with diet first.  She'll go through the other results with me, and the BP, and the ECG.  

Finding it hard to accept diabetes.  It's a link back to the past that I don't want.  It's bad enough that I do have my so-called father's genes, I don't want his illnesses too.  My family have been good and reminded me about all the people on my mom's side that had diabetes - in fact it would have been quicker if they had told me who hadn't got it!  I know that it's a diagnosis, but it's not one I wanted.

Now let's move onto the positives.  New life.  Yup we have seed growth!!!  It's fantastic to see how quickly things have taken off.  The cauliflowers have sprouted, the onions are just starting.  Thyme is going well and the chives are just starting to poke through.  We have some sweetcorn tiny tiny shoots peeping at us as well.  When Mand went outside this morning, she found that something had been in one of the potato bags and pulled out one of the tubers.  We're not sure what it was, and why have they only pulled out the one?  We will have to keep watch!

And finally the teddy bears.  We actually sat and watched QVC because they were launching the new Charlie bears collection.  We did succumb to buy the limited edition offer.  We should get some money on Thursday, so we should be okay!  But anywho, life is too short to not have cuddly things.