Sunday 27 June 2010

It's all good, even if England are out of the World Cup!

Just a little update to say that life is good, it really is. I am due my next injection on Wednesday (3 days time) and I am not really that bothered about it this time. Then there will be just 2 more and then my appointment back at the hospital to determine the next step. I am quite excited really, if this is how my life can be then bring on the surgery!!

In other news, the boy went for his first school visit last week, it was a roaring success and he had to be prised off the school gate on the way OUT!!!!! He has another visit tomorrow afternoon.

My girl had a sports competition with the school last week and the school won!!

All in all, apart from the financial problems, life is very good. Long may it continue!!!

Wednesday 16 June 2010

The day after a downer

Feeling much more chipper today! Had a good cry last night and through a waterfall of snot and tears snivelled about how rubbish I am on days like those. Made all kinds of rubbish complaints about how I am a useless Mother and I haven't done any housework and therefore am a rubbish Wife too. But my Husband, very lovingly, pointed out that I had in fact successfully got through the day with two children still very much alive, fed and cared for. So that was a bonus!

I can't have been as bad as I thought because I was able to give him a 45 minute run down of the Brazil V S. Korea game!

Bless my lovely friend C, she took me off to the supermarket with her this morning so that I was not on my own, I think it was just a ploy to make me push the trolley, but I am grateful nevertheless!!!

I am glad that yesterday is over. I think my defences to those sorts of days are rather low, having not had those days all too often in the last 3 months. But having had that day yesterday, it made me realise just how far I have come. Those days lasted for 2 weeks not 6 months ago. Now I just have one day like that every couple of months. That is major progression and I shouldn't lose sight of that fact.

Onwards and upwards, as always :O)

Tuesday 15 June 2010

Anger

Add that to the list. I am so bloody angry at the world. Everyone in it and all that they stand for.

People are so selfish, they stand back at do nothing and other people suffer.

I am suffering and none of this is my fault.

I will never understand.

Days like this take me by surprise

It is a down day. I know I shouldn't be so frustrated by it, but when you get used to feeling normal a day like this knocks me for six. I am tired, bloated, hungry, miserable and fed up with everything today. I know the reason is because of my useless body but it doesn't make me feel any better. I also know that tomorrow I will feel a whole lot better, but what if I don't?

I can be positive on the good days, money won't get me down and the lack of any income can be brushed off with "we have each other", but not today. I am so sick of living like this. We have never been so poor, we have an income of zero and outgoings of astronomical proportions. The figures don't add up and yet I don't see a solution.

I have a really upset tum today, I always get this at the begining of a cycle. I just hate the tiredness I feel. I literally have no energy.

This is the most depressing update ever so I shall just leave it there.

Tuesday 8 June 2010

A month!!!

Nearly a whole month since I last updated! That could mean two things, either things have been so good that I have been too busy to update or things have been so horrendous that I have been unable to put it all down. Thankfully it is mostly the former!!

Things are good, I had my 3rd injection last Wednesday and this time I had to take the children with me. They were really good, they sat and watched and asked questions like "why do you have to have two injections, what is the first one and what is the second one?" and Nursey and I answered them very matter of factly for them. It was a positive experience actually! I wasn't able to get worked out about it and the children learned a bit more and saw what injections look like on some one else!

My moods have really calmed down, I have not had a single "mental phase" at all since the first injection and I have hardly had any bad days at all. I am really looking forward to my review in September to see exactly what the consultants will decide next. Hopefully it will be a very simple procedure to get me booked in for a hysterectomy. I am really positive about it, I know it is final and I am completely happy with it. My life has totally transformed in the last 3 months, I actually have a life again. I no longer have to dread each week and what it will bring, I can plan ahead without having to work out where in my cycle I will be. The feeling of freedom from my own body is exhilarating!

On the flip side, more worms were released from the can. The girl I can always remember being abused by Grandfather is now known to me. We have had contact and we now know about each other. In a way, it has been another nail in his coffin for me. I had always known about her and knew that she was abused and yet I did not know what the connection was or how she came to be at my Grandparents house. She was the one person I knew for a fact was abused. Everyone else throughout my life has been a question mark. Did it happen to my Mum? My Sister? My Cousins? I never had any evidence or concrete reasons to ask anything, for fear of it not happening to them and then being called a liar. But with "C", I knew. I had often looked through my Grandmothers photo albums and seen her and wondered. So, then there were 9. How many more? I don't think we will ever know. Maybe it is best not to.

I had a very strange dream last week. I woke up crying, I was crying so hard in my sleep. I only remember bits of it, but it was all to do with being at a party or something, my Aunt arrived and I went berserk, shouting and screaming and crying. I still have anger issues, but I think they are more sub-concious now. I do feel it every now and then, but I have control over it. I guess it is only natural to be angry? I spent 30 years hiding this secret from my family, then to find out that so many people knew about him and not one person did anything to protect me. 14 years I suffered, 14 years at his hands and everyone else just protected themselves and their own. And now I feel the burn in my chest. That is where the anger is. Just waiting to come out. But I won't let it.

On the positive side of my life, we have a new found social life with wonderful friends and we have a wonderful life right now. It is the people in your life who make your life what it is. Not money or things. Yes, money would help. Lots! But money doesn't buy you the memories which you take forward in your life, and I have lots of good memories to make up for :O)