Home visits, looking for work and hospital stays... what a week!!!

Hiya on a cold and frosty winter morning,

I hope I don't sound on too much of a downer in this post - but sometimes life just fairly pisses me off. It's either all or nothing - and the week just gone has definetly been one of those all weeks where nothing seems to go right and you have to fight to keep your spirits from going under.

I have been AWOL for these last few days - unusual for me - but there has been a lot happening at my end - the least of which my second son Mason ending up in emergency on Friday night. We waited for three hours here at our local hospital to finally get some sort of progress report then at 9pm had to drive a half hour away to Fremantle Hospital to their emergency department. He was booked for surgery there and then and we ended up staying for the next two nights as he recovered. He's ok - a bit sore and sorry for himself and a little down due to lack of sleep - but there's no doubt it's been stressful for both of us and and when we finally got home yesterday around lunch time... I just wasn't up to writing, I was too damn tired... (try sleeping upright in a recliner chair for a night or two - ouch on the neck and back :) That said, really can't fault the public health system here in Australia. The nurses are just brilliant - far too underpaid and overworked - and that sucks!

Before all this happened, I was out on the Thursday with my BF and we hit the shops. I mentioned before I was looking for work - just something to fill the school hours and where I don't have to think too hard and I can come home and forget the job (that said: I have also been thinking for the longest time about doing a Carers Cert III course. I think working in a Nursing home or at someone else's house looking after their child/relative, would suit me right down to the ground, so I have been doing some investigating into this also.) While we were out, we checked out one of the 2nd hand shops across the road. My one and only experience was walking into a St Vinnies and promptly walking out again. They have a funny smell and I'm not keen on wearing someone else's clothes unless I know that person. That said, it must be something to do

with getting older because I ended up finding this cute little top in a size 14 (it's a touch tight but it shouldn't be too long before I'm in it) for three whole dollars. I had to laugh. I took a pic and posted it below :)

Me dressed up to hit the employment trail - horribly cold, wet, rainy day hence the scarf and jacket

My three dollar top - I actually think it looks like a 3 buck top too in this pic lol. It looks better when worn than on the hanger.

Friday was a busy day. Food shopping first with my BF - she dropped me home, I unpacked then it was time to pick up my grandad from the nursing home and ferry him back home here. I said to the nurses I would probably be an hour or two but it was more like four by the time I walked him back in lol. We sat at our dining table where we could watch TV and he could have lunch and we all watched an old midday movie that was showing ... Ruthless People. I hadn't seen it for the longest time and it was nice to hear my grandfather give an explosive laugh when something funny happened (as well as me cringing at first at all the sex scenes lol - I had forgotten they were in that movie) He downed copious cups of coffee and had a lot of pickies - (well MOTH and he did... it was my first day of mushies so I missed out) They pigged out on biscuits and cheeses and spreads and dips... and then he promptly fell asleep. I was so worried he would topple off the chair, MOTH and I woke him and steered him into the lounge where he lay flat out and snored his head off for about an hour. When I woke him and told him we had better get him back home because I was worried about the time, he didn't want to go back. Then I realised he was a bit confused to where he actually was and when I explained he had to go back to where he lived or his friends would miss him... he happily got back in the car and away we went. It was hard leaving him on his own again.

Then of course Friday night happened which pretty much meant I was at the hospital all weekend with Mason. MOTH held the fort back here at home (thankfully he was able to do that.) I have since started mushies as of the Friday just gone (and typically I had to try and work around that while at the hospital the whole time). I think I did okay, but there were a few times I pushed the boundaries I'm sure but I feel none the worse for it, so all should be okay. While I seemed to stall on the scales during that 2nd week of fluids they have started moving again - and during the time I'm now on mushies. I thought for sure I would gain but nope, the scales have started another downward slide so thats all good. I broke my first big barrier this morning. I'm under a 100 kg's. The scales read 99.8 so yay to that!! Will take a proof pic tomorrow :)

Kay think that's it for me. I have a ton of stuff to catch up on. Hope all you girls are okay, and I look forward to catching up on everyones blogs.

Cara xx