What a weekend

It struck me today just how very different my life is now, compared to a mere nine weeks ago (yep, it’s been whole nine weeks since my surgery)!

Nine weeks ago, I was drastically malnourished, unable to walk further than just to the bathroom (which I did anywhere from upwards of twenty times a day). I didn’t see anyone unless they came and visited the house, and when they did I had very little to talk about anyway. Well, come on life, wasn’t very exciting was it? It makes sense that there wouldn’t be much to say, when all I did was sit on the sofa, watch television and go to the bathroom. The only life I was living was through everybody else.

This weekend alone I have been to “Alaska” camping. As I’m sure you can guess, I did not really go to “Alaska”, but I did have the ingenious idea of doing it at home. We attached a plastic sheet to the curtain rail, and then the other side of the room too. Put the television on a screensaver which showed a snowy outlook with falling snow through a tent door. Opened the windows nice and wide (so it made the room absolutely freezing 🤣). And got the camping cooker and beds out!

I would never have been able to do this nine weeks ago though, because although I would have been at home, I was always up in the night. This would always be with a sudden urgency, and was at best every two hours, and at worst every hour. In the camping scenario from Friday night, this would have meant; clambering across everybody on the floor in a sheer panic as I tried to run to the bathroom, probably kicking some heads, falling over, waking everybody up and after all of that, probably not making it to the bathroom anyway 🫣.

I hope that helps with context around how limited my life was, at least somewhat anyway. It’s hard to explain with words, I think it’s one of those things you had to be living through to truly appreciate the depth of.

On Saturday morning I was on planet nine after such a fun filled evening in Alaska. The kiddos had belly laughed for ages, which I hadn’t heard in a long time, and so did I. And this was just the beginning, I still had lots more to look forward to this weekend too, the girls were coming ❤️.

Saturday morning saw the arrival of the girls, I touched on that yesterday, so I won’t bore you by repeating myself. But, as a run down of what we got up to; Brunch – Went for a drive to show them the local area – Came home – Chatted and caught up with my family – Took Sam to the train station – Went out for dinner – Came home – Made cocktails – And then Bernie took them back to their hotel. Throughout this beautiful day we chatted, boy did we chat. Children, life, relationships, school, work, extended families, hobbies, interests, fun things, hard things, happy things, sad things, and basically all things ❤️.

Sunday morning was a nice early start, which found me in a Cafe in Ironbridge, alone and reflective, as I pondered my life and how far I’d come. This made me feel a little gooey inside, but also proud. Really blinking proud 💪. I was glad to get the phone call from the girls saying they were down and ready for breakfast, it broke my train of thought and stopped me becoming too gooey 🤗.

Breakfast was followed by another drive around the County showing them relevant bits and bobs, and then we returned home. Coffee and more chatting was followed by the time coming for them to leave. It was a bit teary as we touched on how different last year could have been. It wasn’t lost on me how scared theses girls had been for me. However, not anymore, here we were hugging tightly and saying our goodbyes until next time 🥰.

I grabbed my coat, whizzed out the door and managed to make it to watch Beanie (Brenden, my Son) play the last twenty minutes of his football game. They won 5-4, which made it even better.

Sunday afternoon I put my pj’s on and sat down on the sofa. I tried to digest the amazing weekend I had just had, and reflected some more.

What a weekend, what a life!

I am so blessed to be surrounded by such amazing people from every angle, and I’ll never take that for granted ❤️