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Hanging in There

Sorry I’ve not been posting recently. I’ve been dealing with some personal feelings; and not very well at that. Long and short of it is I’m sad; incredibly incredibly sad. That looks so very stupid written out but there it is. It’s mostly health related. We’re entering the 5th month of waiting for a specialist referral for me and the same amount of time for my liver ultrasound. It all came to a head today as we sold my trike. Over a year ago when I got my full time job and we moved down here I was convinced that I would be able to cycle into work, convinced that I could hold down a full time job and convinced that everything would now be sunshine and roses. Please don’t see me as ungrateful, my life is so much easier now, I love my job I can treat myself occasionally and we don’t always have to wonder how we’ll pay the bills; but my health hasn’t improved. It’s getting worse and the NHS don’t seem interested in helping. My GP is worth is weight in gold, but it’s very saddening to be still on a list after this amount of time.

It’s not in my nature to be sad or angry or whiny and that’s why I tend to keep it to myself; and you get radio science on the blog when I feel like this.

 

However now it has been gifted I can show you this! It’s a Tea Jenny hat I made for my friend Laura as a late Birthday present. The Tea pots are in blue and quite subtle until you know they’re there. I have the hankering to knit myself one in really bright colours very very soon – I love hats!

I did debate on the pop pom but think it really adds to it in the end.

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