Hospital Stay

Its been twelve days since I last posted an entry in my blog.  Guess you are all wondering what happened to me. 

Last week I was quite ill and in severe pain to end up in hospital for a couple of days.  I had my gall bladder removed as it was some major health issues to cause me quite ill. If any of you had this experience would understand what I went through in such an unexpectedly incident. The pain was worse then childbirth!!

The surgery of the removal happened on Wednesday night and there was some mild complications overnight.  By Friday afternoon I was discharge to go home.  The first night I managed to sleep well after four nights of bugger all sleep.

All this week I have been resting, sleeping and watching TV.  I'm not allowed to drive for a week so I had to get other people to go to the shops when required. Over the weekend my Dad and a friend came over to keep me company for a couple of hours as I was home alone all weekend. Also I had a close friend regularly contact me to see if I am okay.

By Sunday my emotions got the better of me.  It hit me hard to realised I now have lost an organ for life. I learnt this experience as my own walk up call to my own health and need to learn to choose better healthier eating habits.  I haven't jumped on the scales to see if I have lost any kgs since I became sick but my food intake has been alot less then I normally would comsume daily. Guess now is the good time as any to think about making better changes to myself.

40 hour famine

How is everyone's week been going?  It's been a short week as we had a public holiday on Monday for Brisbane EKKA. This carnival had been opened for 8 days now and I guess thousands of visitors past the entrance gates to have a fun day out with themselves or their family or friends. We never bothered going this year as it's too expensive to attend yearly.

Today is the start of the 40 hour famine and it will end on Sunday.  My eldest girl got involved for the first tme this year.  So it will be interesting to see how long she can last without food intake.  I know I couldn't because I would be feeling ill from lack of something in my stomach.  Don't get me wrong I do really feel for these poor starving kids in third world countries.  If I was there I probably would give some child a good meal if I could.  I don't believe in donations to many organisations because I heard it's the administrators of the organisation that gets our donated money.  What really ticks me off is how there are so many fussy eaters out in this world!  They just take food for granted.

Have a good weekend everyone!

August Begins

Hows everyone's week been going?  Nine days of August have passed on by and our temperature started to increase during the sunlight hours.  We had beautiful sunshine weather for the past week which is a good time to spring clean in some areas.  But I was more interested in sorting out afew boxes from upstairs because I was seeking something to use last week.

This week was a good time to get myself motivated to get back into a regular walk routine again.  I tried to walk twice a day at sunrise and about half an hour or so before sunset.  Our early mornings are still abit chilling but it's nice to go walking at that time without feeling so hot (like summer).

Brisbane Ekka started on Thursday.  At this point we aren't planning on going to the EKKA.  It gets too costly to go every year.  For one adult it costs $28 at the entry gate and that does not include any rides.  For a family of four it would cost $65 entry, add food to eat, showbags and afew rides, half your weekly wage would be gone.

There are two public holidays for next week for Brisbane Ekka. Logan has their day off on Monday while Brisbane has their day off on Wednesday.  Students used to had two days off school in the same week but the education department put a stop on student free days in August. But seriously do we really need a public holiday for EKKA?  The Brisbane EKKA goes for ten days and I am sure alot of people have the time to go if they wish to go anyday of the ten day event without having a public holiday for the carnival.

Enjoy your weekend!

July report

Goodbye July! I am thankful this month has been declared over as I had a rough month of receiving more bad news then good news. Either someone has died, had some form of surgery or been diagnosed with some form of cancer. What is going on in this world this century? Why are lots of people getting fatally ill to require surgery to remove an organ or have treatment for months? A couple of weeks ago I read some news feed post on facebook on how they wished it was the 80’s again. I kind of agreed with this as back then most of the past relatives I knew were still alive and kicking. Even had one of my cats off to the vet for an infected open wound as he got himself into a cat fight about 3 days before. He disappeared for around 40 hours and showed up at meal time in the morning. $150 later he got better within a week as I thought it was easier to get an antibiotic injection as he is the hardest pet to consume tablets. Don’t bother with any suggestions or tips on how to success in getting tablets down his throat because I have tried them all. Even the vet struggled on getting him to take a worm tablet at the clinic. This cat is one smart cookie!! The hardest part was to keep him indoors all the time as he is so used to outdoor living all the time. We try to keep him in at nighttime but times he is too quick at the screen door when I need to go outside for a reason or coming home late from an event. The worse part is if a household member forgets to lock the screen door, he can open the door himself and get out. I had abit of good news as well. Rachel was photographed for the local newspaper on the Fraser Coast. She was involved in a Paddle for Whales event with many other petitioners to save the whales in Hervey Bay in July. I had drivers my car for six months now and it had its first 10K done a couple of weeks ago. All’s good so far!! I am starting to see more of the same model on the road daily now. This morning there were three of us at the same set of traffic lights on Loganlea Road. My children’s report cards had arrived via snail mail and parent teacher interviews happened as well. Only on Tuesday afternoon I saw Rachel’s teachers. Her achievements results are good but her effort and behaviour into the workload isn’t as strong as it should be. Monique has started her school based traineeship this semester. She's doing sport and recreation. Her on the job training (and gets paid for it) is held at a primary school once a week on Fridays. She loves it!! Time to go as I have some house chores to do before the day ends. I already had a busy morning dealing with business phone calls to two people. Have a good month of August!