I’m dreaming of a Crohn’s free Christmas

… just like the ones I used to know! 🎄

Today we realise the obvious. I have no control over what happens next!

This week I have been told I am in a ‘flare up’ which in real terms means inflammation and pain vs remission which means business as ‘new normal’.

So now we take emergency drugs (steroids) to try and get a handle on the situation, I have blood tests and x-rays booked in this week to make sure the new medications aren’t doing more harm than good … and we hope and wait and try to stay calm and not dramatically scream the house down at the unfairness of it all!

Life isn’t fair 🤣 circumstances have proven this to me since day one but there is nothing I can do about that and I refuse to stress over things that I have no power to change.

So instead, I shall control what I can …

I can make the house smell like gingerbread and purchase a patchwork Christmas duvet set 🎄

I may order multiple real Christmas trees in the hope that when they arrive some of the fellow McC’s will feel obliged to decorate them!

I will do everything in my power to be able to go to the McCousins Christmas Bonanza (nothing says Christmas with the McConnachie’s like a George Michael tribute night in Chinese restaurant 🤣).

I will decorate a gingerbread house with Jaxon and keep Millie dancing with Christmas songs ❤️

I will keep trying to get an us all together date in the with the McSiblings and their squads 🙄

I will keep looking for my Christmas entertaining things to keep my mind busier in my stiller times … I watched a video on quilting the other day … it was about 19hrs long and I have no intention of doing it but that kind of thing 🤣

And I will have a cosey cosey Christmas where things can stay either as they are or get better and then 2022 can officially do one and we can try again in 2023!

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