Happy Monday!

I am literally writing this on the bus on the way home from my Mum’s. Last week, I took her to the doctors and we get x-rays of her hands and this week it was for a blood test because the doctor thinks the issues with her hands could be rheumatoid arthritis. Her hands are very sore and as she tells me often, hurt a lot!

The neurology appointment we had for August has been cancelled and rebooked for October. Mum has decided to go private because the frequency of her falling has increased to about once a week. She is covered in bruises and honestly I’m worried about her all the time! Yesterday we spent some time in Sally’s lovely garden and last night I sorted out Mum’s kitchen. It was driving me up the wall (yes I know that I’m not the tidiest person in the world but things were all over the place at Mum’s and as she has bought a new air fryer so she doesn’t need to use the oven (which is really low down!) I had a reason to tidy up and re-arrange a bit!

Other than care of the aged p, I’ve been busy at work and in the heat. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been to Hampton Court Flower Show, been at the plot for the Open Day, had some of the godchildren needing company, been at the Ealing Beer Festival and yesterday Ma and I were at Sally’s.

Work wise, I’ve had a quarterly reporting period, a team training day (because are you really working if you don’t also have to get up at 5am to be in the Southampton office at 8:30am? While I’m doing g those things my normal day to day doesn’t stop. I’m really lucky that I work hybrid but I need to be in the office a bit more and the more I’m in the more people remember to ask me for things and office days also involved three hours when I could be working!

This is life and I’m ok with it but it has just been full on, nearly a year after Mum’s fall, I’m still not sure I’ve fully adjusted to the change. I know that I’m not the only person in the world right now feeling that I have a lot to do and not a lot of bandwidth (emotional or physical) to do it with and I’m also aware that I don’t have as much to do as others. It’s still hard to work through it though!

I had a migraine on Saturday. I’ve been pretty migrainey all this week, which I put down to the change of HRT and I’ve also been great this week at ploughing through on pills and Purdeys (the headache cure of champions!) but I think over the weekend, I just hit my limit and it was a doozy.

This week is not as busy, I’m not doing anything apart from work, home, allotment and Mum! However, I’m not having any sort of social engagement, the last couple of weeks have been too people-y for me and I need some mental rest!

I’m in the office tomorrow and Wednesday. This week is action week for The Quilter Foundation and there is a ‘village fete’ tomorrow, I have no idea how it’s going to work but I’ve volunteered to help so we’ll see how it goes!

Mum’s and a trip to the Surbiton Farmers Market on Saturday and allotment on Sunday. Have a good week!