Well, it’s been a very hectic few months, culminating in a 2-week stretch of especially hectic things! So, I’ll start at the top.

The app launch was a raging success; the venue I found was perfect, they were fantastic and everyone had a really good time. I was on meet and greet at the door (name tags, goodie bags, general introduction) and we had a blast. It was a lot of hard work but it went off really well.

In less good news, I have diabetes. In the month since I found out I’ve got my sugars down from 15-17 to 6-9, which I’m really pleased about. Medication is helping as well, but I’m making changes to my diet (more veggies and meat, smaller portions of potato/rice/pasta carbs) and I’ve been able to stop testing my blood sugars all the time. I have a blood test in June to check my hba1c again, but I’m doing well on it. There was some panic at the start but I’ve settled into a good routine. Now I just need to get some exercise, but my pain is worse so that’s hard. Which brings us to point 2…

GP has convinced me to try coming off Gabapentin as there’s apparently ‘no evidence’ that it works on long term pain. However as I reduce (slowly), my leg pain is definitely increasing, which is not ideal. I’ll talk to them now Easter is done with about what we can use instead because I’m about as low as I can be right now and I’m only half way there.

It was my Cardiff friend’s birthday the weekend before Easter so I was there from the Thurs in full celebratory style. Daughter met us in Cardiff and we travelled home for birthday and Easter stuff on the Tues. I had invited BFF round on Monday for a roast dinner as I had no plans for Easter, it was going to need to be a quiet one to recover from the weekend before.

But Stepmum asked if she could come and see the house and take me out for Easter lunch. Lovely, only after we’d booked her into and AirBnB there was nowhere that had spaces for lunch. So I’ll cook, no worries. I invited Stepdad as well in case he was on his own. Then SIL messaged to ask if they could come for Easter a week before it (while I was in Cardiff) – I initially said no but she’s just lost her dad and family is important so sod it, of course they could all come. Daughter at this point said that because I’d not made plans, she’d planned to be away for that weekend with her friend, but Easter ended up with 6 of us in my tiny house – we managed fine! It was fun! – but I’m very sore and tired now. Then BFF came on Monday as planned, which was amazing, I miss when we lived together and saw eachother all the time, though I’m delighting in having my own space as well. So yes, that was Easter!

It’s meant I’ve not seen my partner in 2 weeks and I miss him terribly. Hoping to spend most of next week there to catch up on cuddles and conversation, though we have managed to have video calls throughout the time away almost every day, so that’s nice. It matters to me at a time when I’m feeling insecure, just to have that good morning/good night at the very least, and usually a couple of snippets of chat in the days. It’s our anniversary next week as well, so that’ll be nice but low-key this year, we’re both struggling with cash-flow!

Deliberately not talking about Mum stuff, that’s for another blog post. This one was just a general catch up. 🙂