Sun shine makes a difference....

If you plan to be crook, do it in warm weather. It is so much better being sick when the sun is shining and when you are not huddling around heaters and loaded up with blankets.

When I was having my Chemo, I was thinking how much easier it would be if every second person didn't have a cough, cold or the flu. Now I am convalescing I think how much easier it is to go for a walk, move around in the middle of the night and generally feel better with some sunshine.

The weekend was magnificent. I haven't felt this good in months; sunshine and feeling better is so motivating after such a long period of sickness.

Today after doing a 3.5km lap of the vineyard in the morning sun, I headed to town and ended up at work helping Suz. I am also driving again and that is so liberating. My poor Black Beauty was looking decidedly second hand as it has been on the dirt roads to the Farm, and then sat for 5 weeks in the garage and became so dirty with a thick film of dust over all those weeks.

We sorted that today. I have no chance of hand washing it with all my stitches (67 was the total) still healing, not to mention all the internal ones. My final tubes were removed just 13 days ago and I have to take it real easy still on that wound...still looks pretty bad at the moment but we are on the mend. The RDNS nurse gave me a very sturn talking to on Friday when we changed the dressings to take it easy while it heals.

I forgot to bring my chemist shop down from the farm in my rush to get away, so I had to get a repeat script filled tonight, and we will get through. The pain is starting to drop away and I have gone all day without any relief at all....whoooo hoooo. The nights are the killer time.

I have to be really careful I don't get sucked back into full on work until I am ready, it has been ramping up a lot and today I was totally fading by 4.30pm...I do not want to have a set back from coming back too early. It is meant to be at least 3 months!!

Anyway, I am currently going with the flow, one day at a time still. I must say, getting some sleep is exactly what I needed, and feeling so much better has to be related to the nights settling down. I hate sleeping sitting up, but if that is how it has to be at the moment, so be it. I am assured I will get to lie down again once the ribs and the associated pain settles down. The pain from the wounds are much less acute, and my entire right side of my chest remains simply NUMB. Apparently all the nerve endings have to re-establish themselves which will take months.

So there you go. I am still going daily with the blog...and I will play that by ear. Thanks for all the encouragement and for those who wanted me to keep it rolling....