Woke up this morning with Nicface 🙁 It’s been brewing for a few days but this was full on face on fire, swollen eyes which carried on getting worse through the morning.
Mum is doing well, she’s been up and about and is not in too much pain, so aside from only eating fairly sloppy food and drinking all her tea through a straw she is doing fine and is on track to have her stitches out on Thursday. This is good as it means we should be fine to go away as planned on Wednesday.
I had a very stressful morning trying to sort out cancellation of the insurance on Willow, still not resolved, suspect that will rumble on – argh why is nothing simple?! I just have the one scary phonecall to make on Monday to the CCCS and also need to get in touch with Jill and firm up Glastonbury plans for after Christmas and I’m done with unpacking this bit of our life out of the box it had been tidied away into. Business plan and croft application still to crack on with but life keeps getting in the way there. I think I need to go and sit somewhere no one can sigh at me or huff about me being on my laptop is the best solution. Our days just keep getting filled up even when we attempt to spend them holed up at my parents – today we did food shopping, making lunch, making dinner, Ady went out with Dad to do something round at Dad’s tenant’s house and the fact Mum and Dad are not really behind us with the whole thing means if they can be ever so slightly obstructive to the process, they probably will! 🙁 Infact I think staying up after everyone else is in bed and sitting in the kitchen knocking up the application then getting Ady to read it the next morning is probably my best bet.
I rang around the out of hours GP and got rung back to go through the whole Nicface story again (four times today!) and got an appointment with the hospital GP for 4pm. By the time Ady and Dad had come home and we’d had lunch it was nearly 3pm so Ady and I headed out. We needed to get petrol, drop off some insurance documents at the office the other side of town and do the food shopping for the next few days. We also called in a charity shop and picked up a book for Davies for Christmas about PotC and a Grand Designs Building Your Dream Home book for 50p which looks like it has loads of helpful advice for finding starting points once we are at that stage of The Next Bit.
The GP at the hospital was lovely, running on time (which was slightly annoying actually, I’d just settled down with a trashy magazine in the waiting area, prepared for a long but peaceful wait!) and gave me steroids (but only 5 days, she said I’d need to go to my GP to get a longer dose if required, as it has been both previous times I suspect it will so with sort that on Monday), stronger antihistimines and some aqueous cream for my face which does seem to be helping with moisturising and improving condition more than anything I’ve used before which tends to just make my skin greasy. Oh it’s all so tiresome 🙁
We left the hospital and went to Sainsburys for prescription collection and food. Back at home Ady cooked lasagne and we all ate together. Davies and Scarlett are in Angry Birds heaven and have been playing that most of the day. I think we need to get out of the house and get some fresh air and exercise!