What a big difference a year makes ... this time last year I was so ill and everything was so much 'up in the air' I had convinced myself it would be my last Christmas. Well here I am still in remission (touch wood) and have just put the tree up and made our living room all Christmassy, a task that took me 4 days in short bursts last year. Feels great and unreal all at the same time. Have had lots of fun and games with the kitten this morning who managed to climb almost all the way up the inside of the tree and just finds the shiny wessel cups too hard to resist ... oh the joys! :-)
Things have settled down at work a bit, this will be my third week back and it's the first week they've let me do mornings, much better for me as I still seem to suffer with fatigue from mid-afternoon. Still have a few issues to sort out and putting in an application for jobshare so that I can stay half time, manager not sure if can sort this but at least willing to look. Only downside is it can take ages to recruit someone else and they've not started looking yet, told them in September but only just got the forms. Have built up 36 days holiday and have been told that I will have to use these to stay part time while it's being sorted so at least I don't have to get to full time in 6 weeks like they said originally. Feeling a little more relaxed about this now.
Grandma seemed in good spirits today, had antibiotics for infection in her good lung and that seems to helped a lot. The macmillan and district nurses came to see her last week so she had the stitch out from her drain and had her pain relief changed and this seems to have been much better for her. She still has the oxygen on all the time but seems less breathless and can get up and down a little bit now.
