Not been the best week for me, to be honest. The teams of doctors all met, discussed my case and decided that they really can't do much for me ( Read more... )

I've been fairly sick for a couple of months. Thought it was just the Crohn's making my life hell. But that seems to be not the case ( Read more... )

We took my mom to the airport hotel last evening. Got her all checked in and settled, walked her over to the airport and showed her where everything was. Made sure she could get wheelchair help in all places ( Read more... )

My mom is visiting and to say the visit is not going to plan is a vast bit of British understatement ( Read more... )

My mom arrived Tuesday. She missed her connection in Amsterdam and was delayed 6 hours. Not great ( Read more... )

I spent some time this week going through a box of old photos. Looking for one of my daughter as a baby. Looking at them made me think a lot about who I am, who I have been and who I never will be ( Read more... )

Yesterday was our tenth wedding anniversary. A brilliant achievement for me and a pretty good one for my husband ( Read more... )

When I was young I used to rail about the fact that life wasn't fair. Generally in regard to stuff that was going on with my siblings. I learned very early that life is, in fact, no way fair. The good struggle and the evil flourish. Except when it is the other way ( Read more... )

Outside my window is brilliant sunshine and blue sky, however my weather station reports that it is -3C outside ( Read more... )

I've found myself waking up the last few mornings, on the grumpy side of the bed. Been doing some unusual stuff here in the house and pulled some muscles that had gone fallow over the winter ( Read more... )