The Highs & Lows of Life

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Hey friends. Prepare for a hectic & rambling chat. I’m writing on my phone from a hospital room. I am FINE! My 11 year old son, not so much. But I am getting ahead of myself. Let’s go back to when I got home from holidays 2 & a bit weeks ago shall we.

I was SO keen to get home & get back into routine. I was thinking I was going to hit the ground running. Friends, this did not happen. I hit the ground, stumbled, sat down for a bit & after a week of thinking “I don’t know how to life anymore!” I finally got my shit together. I was not impressed with myself. But last week was GREAT!

Last week I was all “ I am organised! I am hydrated! I am hitting my protein & work out targets!” It was nice time.

If you are someone who is focusing on protein intake like I am I’m sure you’ll agree it’s like a full time job!!! I feel like a real tool checking all my foods & planning all my meals & snacks around protein but let me tell you it’s been a total game changer for my hunger levels & sugar cravings. Who knew?! Everyone apparently, including my 21 year old who has been on at me for at least 4 years to eat more protein. Well, he was right but it’s hard man!

Then my computer got all these black lines on the bottom of the screen. Not the end of the world, just annoying. I booked an Apple appointment for Saturday morning thinking I’d get it sorted & be home before lunch, get the pool cleaned, maybe weed a garden before heading down to moto for the night.

Friends, this did not happen.

Late Friday night I got a call saying Sadie has a place for piano lessons & could she start tomorrow at, you guessed it, same time as the Apple appointment. Sure she could! Quick reschedule of Apple appointment & we were good to go.

My girl does not enjoy new people or situations but she really liked her first lesson so we are continuing! I’m excited for her to learn something new.

Off to Apple after the lesson & they tell me they’ll need my computer for up to two weeks! But it’s covered by warranty so that’s great. PHEW! Then we wandered the shops.

I am not a natural shopper, I don’t enjoy it at all, but what I do enjoy is seeing what my girl likes. And that girl can shop! She always surprises me with her taste. And like any Gen Alpha girlie she HAD to stop in Mecca to spray some things, try some things & feel like she is across it all.

After multiply stores, a million “oh I like this. Can I get it?” we were finally in the bookstore to get the next book in the series she is reading (& so I could peruse the cookbook section) then a stop at Kmart for more markers for all the drawing she does & I was done! Three hours of shopping was enough for me.

Saturday night was spent trackside watching Blake race. I’m at the point where I’m no longer freaking out watching him fly around a track on a motorbike. I love watching him race & love watching him interact with everyone, from toddlers to adults, in between races. Is there anything better than watching people love your kid? I don’t think there is.

Sunday was chill. Well it was for me. Tim & Blake got up at 4am to drive 3HRS for another race. They are mad! I made pancakes. I tidied the house & then headed to the supermarket to grab some things for the week ahead. While shopping I got a call from Tim. I was expecting to hear that Blake had taken out first place for the day because all the updates so far were that he was winning every race.

Friends, that was not what the call was about. Blake had had an accident on the last lap of the last race. He was being taken to hospital in an ambulance. Something to do with his hand or finger or both. They weren’t sure.

Okay. I tried to stay calm because Tim was calm & accidents are part of racing dirt bikes. Last year it was a fractured wrist. We can do broken bones.

Unfortunately it was a bit more than a broken bone. The laceration to his wrist would need surgery. But they were sending him home & we were to present to one of our local hospitals at 7am the next day for day surgery.

Friends, it was not just day surgery.

He is fine but in that surgery they found 4 breaks, not 1 as was first seen, in his finger & the laceration in his wrist went all the way to the bone & scraped that bone too. But tendons & nerves were intake. YAY! It was what they call “a de-gloving” GROSS!! And HOLY FUCK!!!

The wound was full of gravel so they had to SCRUB it out & he’d need a second surgery to make sure it was germ free before they would close it. We were going to be in hospital until at least Thursday, maybe longer. Not good. Not good at all.

Cue tears from my boy who wakes up CRANKY after a general. He is also undiagnosed ADHD so he needs constant stimulation & to burn off all his energy with lots of outdoor time. Days in a hospital room are not for him. Or me. But we do what we need to do.

So here we are, Wednesday evening after his second surgery & things are looking ok. The surgeon said a third op may be needed if things did not look good because he has some infections but thankfully everything was clean & clear enough to close his wound. Hopefully we will be going home tomorrow.

Despite hospitals being a really crummy place to be we have spoken multiply times about how lucky we are to live in a country with a medical system that looks after us so well FOR FREE!

The nurses have been wonderful. The whole surgical team were great at addressing Blake’s concerns (he was worried he’d wake up while they were operating). Everyone from the porters to the meal ladies have made things easier by being lovely, friendly & kind. How lucky are we!!!

So now we have to wait until tomorrow morning to see the doctors & hope they say we can leave. Gosh I hope so!

We had planned to be here a day so when we were told that was not the case I had to cancel all my work this week, Tim had to change his schedule to work school hours. I had to cancel appointments, get Tim & Sadie to pack things for us, oh my god, you should have seen the clothes Sadie packed for me! Bless her for trying but it was not great. Three pairs of period undies (I do not have my period), no bras, a wild assortment of tshirts, pants & knits. No pyjamas.

Tim needed the school schedule because of course it was the week swimming lessons started & netball times. He isn’t usually across those things because he works long hours & so far things have run well. Except when he was 20 minutes late for school pick up but otherwise just FINE.

I don’t do well out of routine or when things change quickly but I think I’ve done ok too. And Blake has dealt with all the pain, the poking & prodding, the round the clock monitoring like a champ.

But we want to go home now. We want home cooked meals. And our own beds. We want uninterrupted sleep, fresh air & to be able to outside in the sun.

I did rediscover my lost reading mojo while here & read Zoe Foster Blake’s newest book, Things Will Calm Down Soon. I liked it a lot. I’ve also watched every reel ever made & played numerous games of uno.

Here’s to things CTFD real soon because 2024 has not been kind to us. It has been beyond stressful & full of hard things. I’d like for the be easy from now please & thank you.

And can k be the 11,000th person to say to you “can you belive it’s almost the end of October! Where has this year gone!” I can’t deal with how time flies as a grown up. Like seriously, blink & you’ll miss it friends.

How’s things with you? Tell me something, anything! Entertain me so I’m not watching silly 30 second videos again.

Talk soon xx