There I was thinking 2007 couldn’t get much worse. Oh dear. I’ve just been told I have ovarian cancer, early stages so prognosis is good, but I’ll most likely need chemotherapy. I’ll find that out on Thursday. So I might be doing the Great Edinburgh Run next year in a wig, and I might be [...]
Archive for October, 2007
The school newsletter has been lying around in the drift of papers on our dining room table for the last couple of weeks, waiting to be tidied away. I read it when I came out of hospital, starting, as one would, with Dear Parents and Families on the front page. I wondered what it meant. [...]
Life in the raw
Published October 24th, 2007 in East Lothian, Miscellaneous stuff and Out & about. 0 CommentsIf I had taken a camera with me yesterday, I could have shown you one of our beautiful East Lothian beaches - blue sky, golden sand, glittering sea. Today, now my sister has gone home, I went for a dose of Vitamin D along the path behind the house to the woods. I should have had [...]
Bed blogs
Published October 24th, 2007 in Blogging, Communication, Hospital, Internet, NHS, School and ovarian cancer. 0 CommentsPatientline is the communication system that is installed at each patient’s bedside in the ERI. It provides a personal telephone number, television, radio - and internet! Woo hoo! It took me a day or so to discover the internet function and a little longer to get onto Edubuzz (I like the new look, by the way!) [...]
Thank you
Published October 21st, 2007 in Blogging, Family, Hospital, NHS and ovarian cancer. 8 CommentsHome again, and recovering, I’m the owner of a line of body piercings that a punk would be proud of or a Goth would die for. I knew I was on the mend once I started composing blogposts in my bed instead of trying to work out which body part hurt least and so could be [...]
Thank goodness for S1 Biology. I’m prompted to write this as I was told that I didn’t put enough information in my earlier, rather too oblique post, so I thought I’d fill in some of the gaps. Read on if you dare. S1 Biology fortunately made telling the boys what’s going on a lot easier [...]
Mother at Large is becoming a book! As an older mother myself, I’m well impressed. And on that note (the older mother one) I’m contemplating running a sweepstake on the number of people who comment on my grandchildren when the boys come to visit me in hospital this week. Always assuming they come to visit, of [...]
To Bebo or not to Bebo - that must be an old one
Published October 10th, 2007 in Boys, Children, Communication, Family, Internet and School. 2 CommentsI’ve just dropped by Ollie Bray’s blog and read his post about a family-oriented internet safety training evening that Musselburgh Grammar School held this week. I would have liked to have gone along but there’s been too much going on this week, so here’s hoping Ross High will run a similar evening in the near [...]
Sunday dinner presented us with something of a dilemma this week. Post dinner, should we watch the rugby or the first of the new series of Top Gear? Both kicked off at 8pm. The sports fanatic that is GP2 wanted the rugby. The other two males opted for cars. I was ambivalent but thought perhaps we could [...]
Just to continue a theme that seems to have developed over the past few posts. It is simply not fair that your older brother has his birthday six days before yours. Particularly when you’re the one who gets really excited about these things, and you’ve been counting down the days for weeks. Those six days of [...]
Too much information?
Published October 4th, 2007 in Family, Hospital, NHS and ovarian cancer. 10 CommentsLife just isn’t fair sometimes. I mean, I know I half expected to be hit by a bolt from the heavens as penance for missing GP1’s birthday. But I didn’t really anticipate taking a full on blow. And for goodness sake, I’m here after all, at home, not away. I am going to make a [...]
Winter arrived in Perthshire last week or it felt like winter as the air temperature plummeted with a high pressure system bringing sun and winds from the north. Fortunately there was no rain to speak of and the water temperature lags behind the air, so spending several hours a day snorkelling around freshwater lochs was not as [...]
“We want a disco” said the older swimmers.
“Come up with a plan and we’ll think about it” replied those of us who could see yet another thing to organise looming. “A proper business plan” said our very sensible coach.
So huddles formed in the cafe for the next week or so - is there a word for a [...]
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