Happy New Year…

By golly time has gotten away from us hasn’t it I hope you had a wonderful Christmas whatever you were doing.  I was very spoilt by my husband and kids…I was presented with a beautiful MacBook Air So I have been going through this learning curve with it, I love it, and now I am ‘Apple’d out’ with all my appley gadgets  Whatever opportunity I have had I play around on my Mac discovering new things…the control/command function does take a bit of getting used to.

Regarding Clyde our elf…with the kids off school, blogging about Clyde was a bit difficult, so I will just do a quick blast of pictures

Husband received a lovely hamper full of yummy goodies from a client, which Clyde could not resist!

Clyde trying to built his own Christmas Grotto

Brave Clyde

My Favourite…I had a special photo album on my personal Facebook page that had various pics of Clyde and the Kids (for obvious reasons the ones of my kids won’t be published here), lots of family and friends had been following Clyde, and if I had not got a picture up of him I would have a wall full of messages wondering whats happened to him…so, I posted this one on his last night with us and I was hit with lots of messages pleading with Clyde not to leave

This was a special one for the kids I also got lots of pics of them with Clyde saying goodbye to him, the blue child was really upset to see Clyde go back to the North Pole…but, it was short-lived due to the fact that the big red man was not only taking Clyde home but will be arriving with presents.

And boy, did they get presents!! Christmas was a case as for most, a time for over indulging on food and drink, wishing the family would get back to work and school by the 2nd.

I haven’t made any new years resolutions, it was my 1yr anniversary of quitting smoking That I am super proud of, it’s still difficult at times, and boy after the year I have had I don’t know how the heck I managed to stay of the cigarettes!

I look back at the year with much sadness and trauma, between my Bells Palsy, the Rheumatoid Arthritis diagnosis, which was then changed to Lupus, and also the loss of my beautiful fur baby Molly….This year I am determined to make 2012 a better year, obviously those things that happened to me last year were unavoidable, it was going to happen regardless and, although I went through a grieving process with my Lupus diagnosis, towards the end of the year, and mainly thanks to many other Auto-Immune advocates out there, I am learning to live with the illness.  2012 for me continues to be a year where I will keep practicing my taekwondo, and possibly will do another 10k run.

Other than that, I am also starting work next week, I was approached by my TKD instructor, who is rapidly expanding his classes and locations to become his Marketing and IT Manager, he wants to now focus purely on his classes and have a small team work alongside him.  It will be nice to get back into the working environment, and I also get to work during school hours, during school holidays he runs a camp for the kids and my kids go to them anyway so childcare at work is an added bonus

Anyway, whoever you are and wherever you are, I sincerely wish you a happy healthy 2012 and thank you for following me for another year

I iz still here!

Oh dear, its been a while hasn’t it…I am refusing to give you a 5 month, day by day, (*shameful*) update in long format.

And, I think its safe to say I failed and sucked at the post-a-day challenge big time…I started of so well, in fact I though I nailed it, but what was it….21 days?! SUCKED!

I recovered fully from my bells palsy, and I really hope that I can provide some hope to those that are going through the same thing.  I sincerely hope that if you are suffering right now you will recover quickly, as hard as it can be to do, do try to stay positive

After my episode with the Bells, I had a 3 day respite then I was hit with the winter vomiting bug!!  I was bed ridden for 1 week! Then my kids got it, which is strange in itself because it’s usually the kids sharing their germs! then another few days of respite then I got flu for 2 weeks.

So, it was safe to say that the first 7wks of the year SUCKED!

Now I am just being a normal busy, manic, mother and wife.

Oh…one good thing though, (HORRRAY!!) I started my physiotherapy (finally) on April 1st..you can catch up here as to why I needed Physio….I was basically given the go ahead to start running again in the new year, but to be honest it wasnt happening.  And now, 2 wks a go I am running again.  I have been advised to start from the beginning again, and was told to do the Couch to 5k program.

Reader, I scoffed, I scoffed loudly at therapist, I mean, who the frig do you think I am, a runner, who does around 40 miles a week and you are telling me to walk and run again for 1 mile…you having a larff!

I met physio half way and I am doing the couch to 10k program, still hate the fact that I am still walking and running but I hate to admit it, I am seeing a benefit to it.

I did my first 5k with my 7yr old daughter, for the Race For Life Cancer Research UK Charity, on May 8th..it took us 40 mins but I was fine with that, it was my first run for over a year and the first one my daughter ever did.

I am now signed up again to do the Baxters 10k, and the Aviemore 1/2…so back to full-time training soon.  I see the physio 2x a week, and am down for a review on June 3rd.  I was hopefully that this would be my last appt, but the therapist scoffed at me.

There seems to a mutual scoffing respect between physio and I.

Bells Palsy recovery!

I am back to normal!!

If you have been following along, you will know that on January 28th this year I was hit with Bell’s Palsy I have, maybe, somewhat, controversially, come out of anonymity to video log my progress.  (Click on Bells Palsy under Categories to read/view my previous posts.)

I did this for two reasons, one, was for me, to personally view my progress in recovery, and, 2, to maybe help other sufferers to come to terms with their diagnosis (hopefully, be of some help).

On Saturday afternoon, I was plagued with the most annoying twitching under my right eye, the affected eye.  Yesterday morning, I woke to find myself 98% back to normal.  I am blinking again, and ‘mummy has her smile back’ (the words of my son).

I apologise for not video blogging my recovery right now, I have really wanted to.  However, the kids are on half term break right now (AGAIN!!!) And to find a minute to breathe, in amongst blogging has been downright impossible!!!

I really want to get my last video in soon.  Then, I will slide back into anonymity and my crazy ass life as a wife and mother .

I also want to apologise for my lack of giveaway that I promised.  I will get that up by the end of the week, hopefully, so mommys/babysitters/grandparents who follow me, let your fellow child carers know as this giveaway maybe just the thing you need in your life, it is in mine!!!

Much loveage

Bell’s Palsy Day 12 Video Update