Get a grip woman!

Suffolk_lass

Hi @KajiKita, thanks for popping in. I'm afraid I am woefully behind on the various diaries I used to follow every day, and some have hundreds of posts I have not seen. I may have to cut my losses and reduce my subscriptions, or accept I will not catch up and pick up after the new year, from the latest posts. Yours has moved incredibly quickly this year and I can see hundreds I have not seen. Forgive me if I am not up to date but I know you have a lovely big garden and like me, you enjoy that.

Fortunately, after todays hospital day, we only have a bit of varroa treatment and fondant feed checking to do but otherwise our bees are keeping warm and well fed in their colonies and our beekeeping is all about cleaning, repairing and preparing our kit for next year. The new kit I ordered in early November finally arrived in part, three days before Christmas, so our motorhome has become a temporary storage unit, with the boxes of stuff and empty Christmas Decs boxes all stashed in it, so the spare room is usable.

Our Aussie guest has been and gone, leaving a couple of small tokens of thanks for the bed (most welcome and unexpected) and apart from a bit of washing and ironing to do, no imposition at all beyond removing some of our clutter.

His use of our spare room reminds me that we need to get some rat treatment to be able to defend the house with (because the roof access is from the space under the window in that bedroom. The wet pre-Christmas period here has encouraged rodents to explore old haunts in people's barns, outbuildings and homes and several neighbours have reported them, so our kitchen roof space will be on their radar. Normally I expect a few mice but it is all rats this year, I am told. We will need to remove the boxes of glasses or they are in danger of contamination, and we can't see what else is there with these in that space. More to go in the motorhome!

Right, time to get ready. Getting to the hospital for the assessment day may take the wrong side of 30 minutes in the first working day since Christmas. No post Christmas reductions for me as I will have the dog with me all day too.

KajiKita

There’s starting to be less solid MSE type conversations on my thread and more banter - @redofromstart  is challenging me to a ‘grow off’ (exaggerating for fun here 😉).

Good luck with your day. May you find parking easily and a nice cafe to wait in 🤞

KK

Suffolk_lass

Thank you! I shall be coming home - they have warned it is a 6 hour thing for him, with various scans, tests and consultations. If I get my bread made, turkey carcass processed, and pie and curry prepared, I might go closer for 3pm but frankly, there is (as always), masses to do here.

KajiKita

It will be helpful to have the distraction 😉😊
I will be trying a new recipe today too. 

KK 

themadvix

Hope you get some answers today SL. And by the sounds of it, plenty done at home too - same here too, lots to be done!

Watty1

Thinking of you today and hoping you get some answers.

Humdinger1

Thinking of you @Suffolk_lass.  We too are on our way to hospital for DD to have MRI scan.  I've found keeping busy and piling up distractions has really helped.  Standing by for your news and sending love Humdinger xx 

Suffolk_lass

@Humdinger1 I am hoping your outcome is as positive as ours.

I dropped DH about ten minutes before his appointment and came home to keep busy, as you say, distracting myself from what could be a life-changing diagnosis. I made turkey stock, prepped, blanched and froze sprouts and set bread to prove and decided to spend the rest of the morning in a futile attempt to catch up on here.

A call from him late morning, and the consultant wanted me to describe what happened in detail. Then she gave us the diagnosis. There had been no pathological brain episode. He had suffered a transient global amnesia episode. She said it is harmless, rarely repeated, and maybe caused by emotional stress, hot or cold and that he is otherwise in excellent shape for his age. She said look it up and read about it (he must have told her I would research it; another stress-busting technique). I was so relieved I said "Just the diet then, DH" and she burst out laughing with us, all of us enjoying the release of emotions in a positive way. 

Sincere thanks for all the positive comments on here. We have not told anyone in the family about this as we didn't want to spoil their Christmas with worry, so being able to pop the update on here is important and to be honest, I feel I could have "a good cry" now and let the tension go. I probably need to as my call from my mother yesterday evening ended in her saying some horrible things and I rang off and sent her a text to say it is better if we don't speak for a while. Ironically the flowers I ordered for her and my sister will arrive today. Clearly my sister is with (behind?) my Mum on the sentiments expressed as not a word from her (she does not send gifts, and her son does not send thanks). I am not going into details and I hope it all blows over, but maybe if she had known what was going on she might have been less selfish.

KajiKita

Oh blimey, what a roller coaster day for you! 😳 
Soooo pleased and relieved about Mr SL’s ‘diagnosis’ - must have been nice for the consultant to be able to give good news for a change. 😊 Mr SL must be on Cloud 9! 🤩

So sorry to hear about your mum and sister. I hate that kind of politicking in personal relationships, with or without what you’ve had going on for the last few days it sounds unreasonable. I think you are right to take a break and perhaps consider what kind of relationships *you* do or don’t want with them in future. 

Hoping today is brighter for you. 

KK

redofromstart

I am so pleased for you both with that diagnosis. Such good news.

(typed bees by accident and it auto corrected to news, amused me anyway)

I hate family politics too, not good to have that extra stress.