Heart breaking.

Karen was in a LOT of pain towards the end of the day. She has really been trying to work hard at her gardening and it is making her body “a wreck”.

She wanted a bath as it sometimes eases her pains. After 15 minutes in the bath, it was time to get her out and she couldn’t sit up, it hurt too much – she spontaneously started crying. Real sobbing. It was so so sad to see her stuck in the bath, crying her heart out.

I comforted her as best as I could for about 5 minutes.

kp:- I have to get out.

So, with a big pull and a shriek of pain from Karen, we managed to get her sitting. At which point, she did a shuffle to sit back on the bath seat and she pushed the button to raise the bath seat.

The crying continued for a while, but she was tired and wanted to “get out of it”.

This morning (Saturday), we have had more tears.

kp:- I am sick of my body. It’s a wreck. It doesn’t do what I want it to do anymore.

I tried to tell her how much she had achieved this week etc etc, but it wasn’t enough for her and she wanted to do so much more.

She has gone back to bed (9am). Hopefully, when I get her up for the World Cup match, she will be feeling a bit brighter.

kp and I were due to go over to Adele’s to watch the England v Paraguay match, but unfortunately, kp’s pain levels were such that the trip would have been too much. Adele’s loo is upstairs and kp could do without that kind of additional stress on her body at the moment, so I picked Adele and the kids up and they came to us.

kp was in bed when we got back, but we all soon got into the football spirit.

Abbie and her big hat………

Louisa was more interested in pushing an empty pram………

kp donned a hat on for a photo, but that’s about how long it stayed on her head…..

You can’t fully concentrate on the football match when kids are around, but we still enjoyed it. kp gave me one helluva stare when I got really wrapped up in the game and the ref made a lousy decision and I shouted………

dp:- You’re f**king kidding

I had to be a bit more careful after that.

With the match over, and a shaky win under England’s belt, we went out in the garden and I put the sprinkler system on for the kids who enjoyed jumping through the water.

Pizza for tea and a good day was had by all.

Apart from Karen whose pain has persisted all day, but thankfully not on yesterday’s scale.