Well it’s hit me, the dreaded lurgy that comes around to get us all at this time of year. I hoped I’d manage to escape it but as my throat hurts along with my head and I have the delightful cough of a dog there was no escaping it. I will try to escape the chemical meds and antibiotics though and hope that paracetamol with hot honey and lemon will take care of it.
This is the time of year that we see the NHS being slated by the press and this is what I find so horribly upsetting. Our NHS is without doubt incredible and that is the reason it is abused by so many other parts of the world, the free health care that we give to thousands on a daily basis is a massive part of what’s breaking it, the fact that our front of house staff don’t take the details of the people we are treating so that the money for their treatment isn’t claimed from their own countries. Having lived overseas I know that if I turn up to a Greek, Spanish, German or French hospital without my EHIC card and passport I will either be not treated and turned away or treated and given a bill on my departure and this I expect and accept which is why I travel with health insurance. I don’t have the full figures, and this morning I don’t have the energy to google them but we must be owed billions every year by numerous countries for the free health care that we give, surely this needs to be done to help save our wonderful NHS and surely this needs to be done soon before it collapses and we lose it altogether. On this note I also want to mention the care given by our staff, having been in a few times this last 6 months I can honestly say that I have met some of the most incredible people who have given me the most incredible care under their most difficult working circumstances, I have laughed until I cried with some of these staff and for that I will never be able to show them the gratitude that they deserve.
This last week definately wasn’t a good slimming world week while I chomped away on popcorn, ice cream, crisps and biscuits with the kids on school holidays but boy oh boy it was bloody lovely 🙂 I have absolutely turned into an old lady while I think the best way to spend an evening is tucked up under a fleece blanket watching a film, star wars with him, musicals with her and eating our way through tubs of ice cream and popcorn at the same time. Every now and again the thought pops into my poorly head that thank God I’m alive to enjoy this and I wipe away a tear. I’m tired of being scared, I’m tired of my friends and family being scared but I don’t know what to do to stop it, the happy pills stop the worry but they obviously don’t stop the seizures, I am in the thought space now that the time in between the seizures I just have to enjoy and then when they happen take the rest time to get over them and start again.
My hair is growing back hurrah, it’s a bloody mess, looks like a mop but it seems to be thicker than ever and even got a bit of a spring to it, so even if there is a fair amount of grey there is a fair amount of hair. I literally have no idea where to go with it, it’s still too short to style but getting more and more every week. That along with the rest of the hair on my body, I’ve never had to shave so regularly 🙂  I’m guessing this is due to the sea kelp and the silica , the silica is also meant to be good for skin, nails and bones so I’m sticking with it. This is a great place to read up on silica and it’s uses and benefits https://blog.viviscal.com/power-of-silica-for-hair-growth-the-complete-guide/
After the seizure of a couple of weeks ago I never did find that earring but I am having to buy an oysta pearl https://oystatechnology.co.uk/ this is going to give me back a little bit more independence, it means that in the event of an emergency I don’t have to try and use my mobile (impossible) but just press a button to get help and with it’s gps it means I can be easily found. I will definately feel like an old lady with that hanging around my neck but a safer old lady that won’t be left abandoned without help if I do have a seizure on my own, what a bloody pain eh!!! Oh and finally my car is being sold, I have finally come to the realisation that I definately won’t be back behind the wheel anytime soon so it might as well get the money in the bank instead, thank goodness for my free bus pass hahaha
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