Happy New Year

Had a very relaxed New Year, just a couple of friends over, dinner and a bottle of wine. Packed a few other friends off to various clubs and found myself grateful I didn't have anywhere else to be! :)

Feeling decidedly porky now - have put on half a stone compared to what I weighed before the surgery. Putting it into perspective it's only back to about what I weighed before I got sick in late 2007, but it's really the moon-faced-ness that I can't abide - I know it's all to do with the drugs but I really don't look like me when I look in the mirror, and the bulge around the site where they did the operation means I can't get into many of my pre-op clothes, so it'll be tracksuit bottoms for a while longer yet.

G and I managed to leave the house together at the same time for the first time in weeks today; his labyrinthitis is still there and I can't walk very far or very fast, but we made it up to Camden and managed to find some furniture that we liked, hurray! Finally we're going to start being able to unpack properly!

I now have designs on getting some kitchen gadgets, so I can learn a few cooking skills like I planned while I continue to recuperate. Reading back over the last couple of weeks, I have a feeling it'll be two steps forward and one step back for a while yet.... must try not to be too impatient to get better.

I think sometimes I forget what a big deal this has been/is/will be, cos it's become kind of every day while I'm in it. Then at the oh-so-regular clinic I talk to others, people at the same sort of time frame as me, especially the ladies I was on the ward with, and I'm always so impressed at how well they're doing and how amazing it is that lives can be changed so dramatically by the medical team, and then I remember that that applies to me just as much.

I got asked what my New Year's Resolutions were the other day. Aside from not spending any overnights in hospital, the only thing I can think of is not to waste any time. :)