Happy Birthday Mum (She is 21 today)…..

Well, busy week and a weekend away means a late blog entry.

Monday started the week off at full speed, with a visit from someone from our solicitors who had come to take a statement from Karen and I, relating to Karen’s case. That took about 3 hours, 2 hours for kp and an hour for me, both of us had to be out of the room, while the other gave their statement.

Natalie arrived on time at 1pm, in time for Syd coming for his regular visit. The latest state of play was discussed with Syd and it probably makes a nice change for Syd to be greeted with an upbeat kp, who remains in top form

Tuesday was physio in the morning and OT in the afternoon.

Wednesday and Natalie took Karen to the Calvert Trust centre in Kielder. Quite a trek with the idea being that if Karen liked it, she could attend for a week (with Natalie) for one of their speciality weeks. They do things like Outdoors Week, Sailing Week, and kp was interested in Health & Beauty week. It sounded like a gorgeous place to go for a week, but after quite a bit of consideration, Karen didn’t think it was right for this time of her rehab, but she is bearing it in mind for the future.

Another promising thing for the future, is that she has been approached by the Stroke Association with a view to kp doing voluntary week helping them out in some form. She discussed this with Syd. Syd is great, he doesn’t give advice, but a bit like a psychologist, he helps Karen make her own decision, and the upshot of the Stroke Association thing is that she has filled in the application form, sent it off, and since had a discussion with them, saying that “now is not the right time, because rehab is so busy….” but she will be back in touch in the Summer.

Thursday, the girls went shopping somewhere for presents for the kids on our  visit to Southampton.

Friday, we drove down to Southampton. We were both dreading the drive, but it wasn’t at all bad, taking about 5.5 hours. 6 hours with a stop for lunch. It was great to see the Maffeys again and catch up with Tracey, Mark, Megan (6), Thomas (1.5) and Marge (93).

Lots of chatting on the first day. Saturday saw Karen and Marge go into Southampton shopping with Tracey, whilst Mark and I went walking with the kids.

Sunday was pretty much the same again, but thoroughly enjoyable.

Yesterday (monday), we drove back up with Marge, dropping her off in Middlesbrough, and today (tuesday), has been physio and a trip to Costco.

So, busy week. Lots of fun.

kp remains top dollar ! Bad sleeps are few and far between thanks to Amytrypteline. Pain is rare and life is really good again. At this rate, I’ll have to start think about me getting back to work again

Keep it up kp !

Here are some photos of our trip to Southampton…..

Regular readers will remember Karen’s confession about being a Lesbian, well, it seems I am wrong, she’s a car…..

Here are Megan and Thomas watching TV…..

Here are Thomas and Megan. Thomas has very big feet !

And this one is of Megan up a tree on the walk we did with Dad.