Going viral

These last couple of months been hard. Really hard.  Since Rowan started nursery about 8 weeks go, he has had cold after cold, with the odd bout of teething interspersed.  He has had to come home from nursery a few times, which fortunately has mostly worked out with Gareth's shifts.  There's only been one day I've had to come home to collect him (oh yeah, I've returned to work too).
It is inevitable that with that amount of virus being coughed, sneezed and snotted about that the rest of the household will succumb at some point.  Unfortunately, Gareth and I caught Rowan's worst cold.  One of the ones that make your entire face feel like it's going to burst open, with your eyes being pushed out from sinus pressure. Ok, I know that's a tad melodramatic when really it is just a cold, but we discovered how difficult it is to look after a baby whilst you're feeling like you'd rather slither behind the cushions in the sofa, and only be missed when an unpleasant smell starts to emanate from said sofa.
Add to this a constant cramping from the coil I've had for 7 months (I don't have a good track record for coils, but this one (a Mirena) was different so I thought it was worth a go) and I've been pretty wiped.

Anyway, moan over, we're all starting to feel a lot better now, and normality is crawling back (i.e. Rowan is resuming destroying the house and we're struggling to keep up with him!)  I have a scan tomorrow to check the coil is in the right position.  Depending on the results, depends on what I decide to do after. 

The house became a bit of a state whilst I was unwell.

Here Rowan is happily about to play with a pile of his

vomit*.  My life is all about the glamor. 

Gareth discovered a great way to keep track of Rowan

when we were perhaps not at our most alert.

Tether-Baby. Patent pending.

*I didn't realise he'd been sick until I took the photo, other wise I would have prioritized cleaning it up.  I'm not that much of a slob.

Bit of a medley

My Mum recently kindly gave me her card-making and scrapbooking stash, and I had great fun sorting through it and indulging my slightly scary tendency to categorise and organise stuff. To thank her, I made her a card from some of the items she gave me:

I have also made several cross stitched Christmas cards during the weekly lunchtime craft group at work, but I can't really share these yet as some of the people they are intended for read this blog, So I guess this is a rather pre-emptive heads up about a future post. A bit of a pointless paragraph really.

On an unrelated note, I get the coil removed next Thursday. I'm pretty relieved as I may finally get some energy back once my body's recovered. This last month has been ridiculous; 24 days of bleeding and counting.

Regardless of energy levels, I'm excited about going to Crufts tomorrow (I'm sure that's in part due to having a day off. It feels like ages since I had a day off!)

Wow. This post is a medley of disjointed crap.

An overdue update

Poor neglected blog. Started a couple of years ago with some sporadic posting, only to be superceded by a new blog that actually gets updated regularly. Well, I blame the coil. Since I've had the blasted thing I've been too tired to do anything (drawing cartoons is a pretty sedentary activity, so energy expenditure is kept to a minimum!) Basically, for the last 8 months, Ive spent my time alternating between bleeding for 2-3 weeks, then being so tired and bloated I find motivation difficult. I've not run or done much exercise as movement seems to incur more blood. I'm gradually turning into human jelly.
Crafting and sewing that involves concentrating on not driving a sharp needle over my hand has also been put on a back burner. In short, I've done naff all to blog about, and when I have, I've not had the inclination to write about it!

So, back to the doctors next week to discuss maybe removing the coil. I'm not really sure how much 'settling in' time in it needs, but coming up to three quarters of a year seems enough. If you are of a sadistic nature, you can read about my experience of getting the coil here.

I do have a few posts lined up for this blog though, involving a recent holiday to Deer Park Lodge and the return of the fornicating frogs in our garden. When these will appear here, I don't yet know!