For the first time in 6 months, today I have felt a bit normal!
Background – Friday I saw my old hospital cell mate Liz (Hi Liz!) during a hospital appointment. Liz was in a bed opposite me for a week few days/a week of my sentence stay … I can’t remember, it wasn’t very long but I always remember being moved into that bay and hearing Liz’s pain noise and knowing her pain was the same kind, if not the same style as mine 🤣 Buddy for life! ❤️
Seeing Liz on Friday, back at work as an NHS legend and with a hell of a new hair cut ❤️ and then making plans with friends and colleagues for next year has given me such a boost. 🪫
Plus after a super busy working week and some great accomplishments even by 2021 standards – I see the light at the end of the tunnel, I see the way forward and I see how I can be properly me again!
Sure there are things that I can’t do but those won’t stop me from doing the bigger thing – albeit slower and more carefully than previously (for the moment)! I just need to ask for help when I need it! And if someone says no to helping me lift something or stretch to get something, it really says much more about them than me!! 🤣
🤞 Hopefully with the new medications my stomach will finally heal and I can finally get on! 🤞
Today
Up this morning, made sausage sandwiches (standard!) followed by a breakfast of steroids, immunosuppressants, stomach protector things, calcium and vitamin D 🤣 Then I am on to making plans!
I want meatballs! Shop bought ones never quite hit the mark so I shall make my own 🥰 and maybe a banana bread … dream big but be content with half a plan if it pans out 🤣
Before this and most importantly, I needed to go walk in the cold! I tried to yesterday but I had far too much fun donating my salary to Aldi and quickly the day was gone!
With Dad as designated driver as Cassie dog can be a princess about jumping in and out of the car if she’s not feeling it and I cannot lift, we went for a cold walk, just me, my dog and a cup of tea to counteract my cold ears 🥰
Back home and into the kitchen! I prepped the meatballs and sauce and then realised I was hours too early to make dinner 🤣 So moved onto baking a banana bread with special addition of chocolate chips – Christmas init!
Making dinner was relatively event free … frustrating having to wait for people to help me though! I needed the wok, a pan and a saucepan and couldn’t just grab them myself and after asking for the third time I get grumpy! 😖
TBF the whole day is just a merry distraction from things – plus avoiding the thought of what I would have been doing any other years decorating Christmas trees and having festive tomfoolery! So that’s why mothers is keeping me waiting while she decorates the tree and I am trying to make some damn meatballs! 🤣
But the day is done and as I said, it has been the most normal days that I have had in 6 months! Dog walked, cake baked, dinner cooked and now I am full and ready to snooze on sofa with Christmas tree vibes ❤️
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My unwilling journey with Crohn’s Disease 