Bone Scan (by sarah)

Yesturday Mum had a bone scan - so is currently still radioactive! It's to check that the cancer hasn't got into her bones but we wont have the results until the 16th 🙁 The scan however has shown up a definate bone problem around her shoulders and bad hip which isn't brilliant but probably not anything to do with the cancer.

Six Halloweens (by sarah)

Wednesday saw mine and Alarics sixth Halloween together meaning we have now been an actual couple for five years!

This seems like a life time even though it may seem an encrediably short amount of time to some poeple. I thought I'd just review what we have done on those Halloweens just for ourselves really:

Also this is going to be stuff that was generally happening around the time that affected it etc... I don't remeber specific dates well so.....

Halloween one: I turn down the chance of a party in order to meet up with Alaric on something I was not sure was even a date! We had the space time corrodinates of South Ken tube station at 6:30. Alaric was late as he was too excited and got on the wronge train but thought he'd got away with it as I was 'late' but I had been there since 6:15 and had thought once it got to 6:45 that he might have been waiting the other end of the tunnel or up the steps etc... so had gone to look for him.

We then walked around aimlessly talking until we realised we were hungry and went to a Pizza Express where I insisted on paying half and we had dough balls for a starter which we shared. I had no idea if I was on a date still at this stage as Al had worded thgings ambigously incase I wasn't interested in him :/ I had spent the afternoon showing his email to people asking what they thought it was. Interestingly male friends said he only ment as friends and female friends said he ment a date.

We then walked some more and ended up at the river discuessing plots for Scifi stories we wanted to write and how we had percieved mirrors as children. My back started to be a nuicence and we sat and eventually at 11:30 kissed - the lights all went out along the river which was a bit freaky and there was a sort of hazyness that made some of the buildings look like space ships! Poor Al had to get the night bus home - I waited with him at the bus stop 🙂

Halloween two: I was being paid double to work at the Union as they had a Super Heros fancy dress thing going on. Al went out for Mikes Birthday and came to meet me after the shift and we got the night bus back to Romford together (I think its actually two night buses we had to get but it was somehow great.).

Halloween three: Uncle Benny died due to various cercumstances that still has on going legal reprecussions, we stayed at the hospital all night and then I went shopping for a costum and went to two parties - it was an odd reaction and Al was concerned.

Halloween Four: I was still on crutches and Al still not driving so my perants came down and we all went for a meal at Pizza Express with Jean in her 'Little Pumpkin' outfit!

Halloween Five: We'd organised a party for the weekend but my friend died so it all got a bit canceled though two people actually came and we played board games late into the night. Jean had a Spider outfit. And we went back to Pizza Express.

Halloween Six: We were running the Scout and Cub groups and had organised a party for them but the village hall was broken into so we had to relocate at the last minute to the school. We were going to have a picnic after the meetings at Barrow Wake veiwing point with Jeany but after tidying the school we were too exhusted! Jean was a pumpkin.

As you can see not all the Halloween anniversaries of our first date have been happy but there is one vitial factor to them - we were together through them and it is a date that marks us as a couple and therefore we felt it important to document what we have done each year. Five years! Six Halloweens. We've had a baby for three of those Halloweens now 🙂

We are hoping for many more Halloweens together - you now may all go and throw up!

Fireworks (by alaric)

Last night, we went up to Barrow Wake Viewpoint, which looks out over Gloucester from a hill, to see all the fireworks displays (public and private!) going on over the city. Jean loved it, and called them "pretties". There were a lot of families up there - somebody even had a barbecue going...

Then the next morning, the air outside at home smelt crisply of nitrate combustion products 🙂

Good News, Bad News (by sarah)

Mum's dressings came off today which was good, I got the dates wronge for seeing the consultant last week for my hernia which is very bad and they've given mum a wheelchair as she is unable to use her walking stick at the moment - the arm she rests her weight on is the one that is weakened due to lymph node removal etc...

Oh and I'm in a foul mood as my darling duaghter descided to extrude a suasage of food from her mouth at the breakfast table and in trying to stop it falling onto the floor my cup of freshly made tea with hot goats milk in it, landed straight into my lap. Still it could have been worse it could have landed in Jean's lap. I'm still not very happy with her as it still hurts. And yes I know it should have gone straight under cold water but that wasn't very practical when its your lap and you've got a two year old.

Sigh - she has turned into a MONSTER! Apparently this is normal behaviour 🙁

Hyper This Time :( (by sarah)

Poor Dad - the day after he had the massive hypo he forgot to take his meds - I had reminded him and sent him off to have them but something went ary on route namely he got into a conversation with Barbara. Unfortunatly becuase I'd sent him off to have the his injection and stuff I assumed that it was all ok.

Now I've never actually seen the affects of too high sugar in him though I seen them with my mum but some how this seemed completely different - maybe becuase it was really fast acting? I didn't twig that he was drinking too much though I know thats a bad sign, mainly becuase I have a cold and I was really thirsty myself. By the time we realised what was wrong we where a fair distance from the house and getting back was painful for dad as his mouth dried out too the extent that his lips where sticking to his teeth. We had to stop and get him a drink so that he could concentrate on driving.

This was bad ontop of the low sugar and hypo the day before and as a result the next day - Saturday he was helping me move stuff (which I can't do by myself becuase of the hernia and my back) when he suddenly started clutching at his chest and gritting his teeth. He had also gone a bit grey - now as alot of you know he had a heart attack about 6 weeks before mine and Alaric's wedding which I didn't see becuase I was working at the Union that night but he was acting like my brother had said he acted then - even down to the fact he was saying he was fine! Also he was exhibating the sort of signs my first aid training has down as heart attack - but it wasn't bad and he was talking to me and he knows his own history and stuff and I knew he had the Nitrolingal spray (Al always teases him that its a high explosive! - it being nitroglycerine!).

Never the less I was still panicing and phoning people to ask advise - I didn't want to call an ambulance for nothing and I also did not want to wait until things got bad - if thats what they where going to do.

But he seemed to be getting better and after about 40 minutes was pretty much back to normal bar being tired so he went for a rest whilst I cooked dinner.

I think in future he is going to have to leave the meds where ever we are having breakfast which is what he's done the previous times he's stayed - this time they where in the room he was staying in which made it easy to forget also he was very stressed out becuase of mum's opp which is one of the reasons he was down here the later half of this week - I was supposed to be looking after him.

I don't think I've done a very good job 🙁