Milann's life keeps getting in the way.......

HairyHandofDartmoor

The heritage day sounds great. Enjoy your day out with DS .

If your staffroom is anything like mine then there is cake present almost every day :eek:. I stay away from it because one mouthful and I'd be lost :rotfl:.

milann

SA doc seems to be thinking along the line of burst veins under the skin....makes sense as that’s what it looks like. Another reason I need to shed a stone or nearer 2:eek: to take the pressure off.

I had a lovely day in the sunshine with ds yesterday- we went to a NT place a couple of hours away and there’s a museum of childhood- we played with some old toys - big kids at heart . There wasn’t anywhere for a decent walk though so after sharing cake and a cuppa - .....and a very nice ice cream each we headed home, en route we passed a lake with a footpath around so stopped and walked around there - about a mile and a half, it was lovely and really unexpected. Then ds treated us to tea at a new smokery which does the most delicious ribs, pulled pork etc but virtually everything was with chips.... it was really good though. So now I’m on catch up to try and loose 2lb before next Saturday as I want to start my new year in a lower stone.
I’m going to try to get into tai-chi later. I need to use my gym membership :beer:

Sunshine_girl2

Your day out sounded lovely , glad you got your walk eventually.

Sun_Addict

Sounds like a lovely day out. Personally I would've never lost my weight if I hadn't joined WW and weighed in every week I love it now I'm a free gold member which is a great incentive to stay on track - I'm not paying Stick with it you'll do it.

Seasidegal58

Your day out sounded fab!

I hear you on the weight! I was stuffing all sorts before I started my weight loss challenge a few weeks ago. I've seemed to have slipped back into it ok. I think it helps because I've got the holiday to look forward too, plus I've been watching some documentaries on Amazon and Netflix that have frightened the life out of me health wise!:eek: I'm sure you'll get back into it - you always seem to cook some lovely SW meals when you've been sticking to the diet. You'll get back on that SW horse!:)

milann

Thanks for the weight loss encouragement everyone.
I’ve had 2 good days on plan - made a batch of veg and lentil soup and have had that rather than stuffing my face with biscuits or crisps which I’d slipped back into ...I will do this healthy eating plan again ....and I do love my soup maker :beer::rotfl:
I enjoyed my Tai-chi yesterday. I think it’s been helping loosen my shoulder which has been quite badly affected since my arm surgery. It made me think as I looked at myself in the mirrored room. The difference in the range of movement between my arms is really apparent and my balance is rubbish....I couldn’t get on tiptoe at all...that coupled with high blood pressure and cholesterol and red patches which are looking like burst blood vessels under my skin has given me the wake up call I need.....all pointing to the fact that I’m not getting any younger and need to look after myself as best I can. So I’ve pulled my wobble board - a recommendation from a physio about 10 years (at least) ago which has lived quite happily under my sideboard for most of that time. So I plan to do 10 min a day wobbling on it to strengthen my lower leg/feet muscles....I could feel I’d used them there muscles today.
Another nice afternoon in work...I’m working with a lovely gentle child who can be moody at times due to a medical condition and anxieties that accompany it.....but she is as happy as a happy thing atm because I’m working with her again....I don’t do anything different from the other staff - in fact I’m quite tough with her....but I’m happy to go along with her being happy long may it last.
I’ve had quite a low spend few days but the cupboards are getting low and there’ll be a biggish shop due before weekend.
I’m seeing the consultant tomorrow and then going to physio. I’m expecting him to either discharge me or leave it a good few months before I see him again. I’m not sure about the physio....it’s improved greatly since my last visit so I’m not sure if she’ll leave me to my own devices or see me again. In a funny sort of way I’ll miss my visits to the hospital as we always turn it into an outing as it’s half way between home and a couple of coastal resorts.

beanielou

Glad work is going well.
I have totally lost the plot eating wise sadly.

Seasidegal58

The wobble board sounds like an excellent aid for you.

Pleased that you enjoyed your afternoon at work with the little girl. Lovely to have such a rewarding job.

Hope all goes well tomorrow at the hospital. If you're discharged you'll still have to keep up with your seaside trips.

milann

Not sure where to start.
If anyone saw Peaky Blinders on Sunday night it was filmed in my home town. The theatre filmed is the one I often go to - restored Art Deco and it’s lovely. They filmed on the steps by the side of the theatre and in nearby streets. I haven’t watched the series but happened to switch over just at the right time to see it by sheer chance.
Yesterday my friend (the one whose hubby we go to see in the home) phoned to see if she could pop round as she was at a nearby garage. Of course I said ‘yes’, as it’s always lovely to see her as I opened the door to her my other friend (the one I bought the red kettle for) walked up the path too. So we had a lovely couple of hours chatting and drinking tea before I headed to the hospital, even though they’ve only met once they got on like a house on fire.
The heavens opened big time as we were travelling to the hospital- the motorway was awful and the local roads leading to the hospital just about passable. As dh dropped me off the couple of steps leading into the hospital were like a waterfall and the water was just gushing into the hospital which has an area like a museum dedicated to limb replacement surgery. I paddled through as a load of workmen were rushing from every direction not quite sure where to start. I walked along the corridor and water was coming up through pipes in the floor and dripping down from the ceiling. I got into outpatients and alarms went off - I thought they were going to evacuate- but nobody was allowed out in the corridors we had to stay put.
When I eventually got to see a lovely doctor (glad he didn’t take my blood pressure as he was a bit of a dish too :rotfl:) he examined me tested my range of movement and was asking lots of questions about where I was up to. I told him I was back at work and he looked surprised- asked about my job. I told him what my GP had said and he wasn’t impressed. He asked a few more questions and sent me for an X-ray. I was panicking a bit as I was due at physio at 4.30 and it was 4.15 ta this point. He said he was going to speak to The Prof - the doc who operated on me whilst I was at X-ray. Anyway when I got back to see him he said I’m doing all the right things, and x Ray was ok BUT neither he nor professor were happy about me being at work - it was too soon and risks damaging the elbow joint by doing to much. He promptly handed me a sick note for another month and asked me which GP I’d seen. I suspect the GP might be hearing from the hospital. By the time I eventually got to physio it was too late to see her.
I was totally gobsmacked as I wasn’t expecting that. We didn’t go for our usual outing to the seaside as it was too wet and we weren’t sure what the roads would be like. After dh had dropped me off at the hospital he was going to go to a nearby garden centre but there was a car stuck in flood water in a dip in the road. Dh pulled into a car park to turn around and come back and wait at the hospital. He turned his engine off for a minute or so then couldn’t get it started - a couple of lorry drivers gave him a push start....so then he spent his time driving up and down a bit of road that wasn’t too bad until I phoned him to pick me up as he wasn’t sure what was wrong with if would start again after being switched off...anyway he thinks some connections were wet after going through such deep water and seeems fine after a good run home.
We did eventually get home ok - at the hospital we had to go out of fire doors and walk through the grounds not corridors. The road nearest hospital was only just passable a car at a time - it’d stopped raining by this time thankfully.
Then there was the phone call to tell work I wouldn’t be in for another month. Head was lovely but i felt really guilty.
So I’m chilling today.......

beanielou

Wow. That is some visit to the hospital in more ways than one.
I have never heard of that happening but I am glad that it did.
No point in seeing all the work by the surgeon and the physio and you being at risk of being undone.