1 Sleep

By the time you read this, Adoring Husband will be in Brisbane and probably already in his hospital room.

Now, the countdown to surgery will begin!

Today was another lazy one for me.

AH did his last mow for work. He won’t be allowed to work for at least a month after surgery and I’ll be doing the cleaning during that time.

He showed BGWLBH how to use the electric mower so she can do our lawns if necessary.

So I sat on my butt sometimes and other times I lay dozing on the couch. I didn’t sleep well last night so I was feeling very weary with low energy today.

I cooked crispy skinned chicken with sweet potato and potato chips as well as a garden salad for dinner, which I didn’t eat.

I ate a bowl full of sweet and juicy fresh pineapple.

We’ve enjoyed a great afternoon of Magic Round Football. My tipping this year is abysmal! I should give up lol.

I think it’s time for me to wrap my belly with the castor oil wrap and snuggle down for some sleep.

Nite all.

2 Sleeps

The saga continues.

We were told that Adoring Husband needed to check into Admissions at the hospital at 1pm on Sunday.

Today we discovered that the Admissions desk closes at 1pm!

Luckily we discovered this fact so that he can leave here an hour earlier than originally planned.

That’s got to be it. Surely things will go smoothly from here!

It was a very lazy Friday for me.

I did nothing. 

So there’s nothing to report.

Time to sleep.

Nite all.

3 Sleeps

In a long line of stuff ups, today at about 10am, we received a call from St Andrew’s Hospital telling Adoring Husband that he was booked in for admission on Monday, NOT Sunday, as we’d been advised since the beginning of this process.

😳

This comes after we’d organised with Best Cousin in the World to leave their farm for the day to provide a taxi service for AH on Sunday. This was a huge ask! Huge for us to ask for help and huge for them to take time away from their farm to do it!

As if this process isn’t stressful enough, without these stupid stuff ups because medical departments can’t communicate between themselves effectively.

The woman from the hospital said she would phone back after she spoke to the Neurologist, so we waited for that phone call. 

No phone call came.

AH checked his emails at 9pm before going to bed tonight, and there he discovered an email sent by that same woman (at 3.30pm today) with a pre admission check in form that they required him to complete, sign and return as soon as possible. The check-in date on that form is for Sunday - thank goodness.

It would have been nice if she’d called as she’d promised and let him know the email was coming.

😳

I’ve lost count of how many incorrect dates, incorrect times, incorrect cost totals and incorrect time frames we’ve been given in the last 3 weeks.

I swear that if we hadn’t already paid for the surgery, AH would have pulled out and cancelled the whole thing by now.

So … after many speed humps, things are falling into place. Fingers crossed it continues that way.

We also received a call from the hearing aid place to say that they had lost AH’s new ear piece molds (promised to be ready weeks ago) and now he has to return for another appointment, which he can’t do for a few weeks because of the upcoming surgery!

😳

Such a joyful time.

AH and I drove into The Bay to sign our new Wills this afternoon and while we were in there, we bought some sleeping attire for AH to take with him to hospital.

He refuses to wear pyjamas so board shorts and t-shirts are his choice of sleeping attire.

It’s been a day.

Now I sleep.

Nite all.

4 Sleeps

After many emails and phone calls, things are falling into place and we are less stressed than we were yesterday.

Of course that may change tomorrow, but right now, we are feeling ok.

I discovered today that Adoring Husband’s neurosurgeon is the brother of Mark Coyne, the NRL player who played for St George and for the Queensland State of Origin team.

He scored the winning try in the 1994 State of Origin …

Queensland miracle try

I wonder if Dr Coyne can turn AH into a QLD supporter during surgery???

BGWLBH and I drove into The Bay today. I needed lotto tickets for all the big prizes happening this week and some GF soy sauce, some fruit, a new toy for Harley (which he has already ‘almost’ destroyed), some art supplies and some Panadol.

Home at 3pm and after my quiz shows I heated up leftover spaghetti bolognese and the garlic chicken wrapped in bacon which I presented with a salad for everyone but me. I had half an orange.

We all played trivia for an hour.

Now I’m ready to sleep.

Nite all.

5 Sleeps

It’s a countdown, while the cost is a count up and rising!

What price for health?  Absolutely any price.

With five sleeps to go, we are STILL working on the details, but so far things are falling into place nicely and I believe they will continue that way.

Thanks to Best Cousin in the World, Marco Polo and BGWLBH, Adoring Husband has a lift down to the hospital on Sunday.

Thanks to his good mate BB, he has a lift home when it’s time to leave Brisbane.

We just have to confirm how many days of accommodation he requires between the day he is discharged from hospital and the day he is allowed to return home.

I know it will all work out in the end.

This morning was a great meditation class and qi gong session with yet more new faces. There were no catch ups today because we all had commitments afterwards.

I did a small grocery shop before AH picked me up.

After surgery discussions, we played trivia online until it was time to get ready for our trip into town.

I selected Morton & Morton to do our Wills and we had an appointment at 3pm.

I’ve never had a Will before and in 30 minutes he had all the information required and we just need to return on Thursday to sign everything.

Too easy!

We were home by 4pm.

For dinner, we had chicken fillets stuffed with garlic butter and wrapped in bacon - an item sold at our local butcher and I served them with potato wedges cooked in the same pan with the garlic butter and snow peas and beans.

We played some more trivia after dinner and watched Farmer Wants a Wife.

Now I’m very tired.

Nite all.

6 Sleeps

There are six more sleeps until Adoring Husband heads down to Brisbane for his DBS surgery.

We are still not even fully organised with transport and accommodation yet. 

It’ll all work out in the end.

Today was a movie day for me. “Mother of the Bride” on Netflix which was nothing special, but ok. The other was “Sierra Burgess is a Loser” which I had seen before and I liked it.

Roast lamb for dinner tonight.

BGWLBH had her nail appointment in The Bay.

Harley and I enjoyed some play.

Now I need to sleep. Meditation and qi gong tomorrow.

Nite all.

Feeling Icky

Today has been an ‘ick’ day.

Feeling a bit lost.

Low motivation.

No energy.

Lost my mojo.

Lack of purpose.

A bit of emotional numbness.

I probably should have done something other than sit on the couch watching MasterChef recordings all day. 

I should have done something to get the blood circulating.

Plenty of ‘I should haves’.

Let me change that to - I did exactly what I needed to do, to get through the day, and that’s ok.

I cooked a quick and flavourless spaghetti bolognese for dinner, but I didn’t eat any of it so I can’t be sure how crap it was. I had spent a couple of hours in bed and really wasn’t keen to cook so I just chucked stuff in the pan. 

My Vegan Chickie messaged me for Mothers Day and I received a phone call from Number One Son in Perth.

Bubbles says that she loves me EVERY day and doesn’t need a Mother’s Day to tell me so haha.

I received a lovely message from Lady Lynn wishing me a happy day.

Maybe that’s what was wrong with me! Nothing different happened for me on Mother’s Day (except for receiving Lady Lynn’s message). I still cooked breakfast. I still cooked dinner. Blah blah blah.

Anyway, the day is over and now I’m going to sleep.

Nite all.