Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Week 5


Well, 1lb off.  I stuck to the plan all week and even worked in a family dinner at our local pub with a couple of glasses of wine. I thought it might have been two pounds  this week but I now realise that there is no guaranteed system to this weight loss and I will take whatever loss I am given.  Oh, by the way, sorry for the slight delay in getting the blog out to you but this week has been a little eventful. 

I had a little scary moment on Sunday after dinner where I ended up on the kitchen floor in la la land. Ambulance called and carted off to Hospital with severe neck pain, aversion to light, disorientation and sickness...oh my god was I sick, so sick.  Anyway lots of tests later (none of which I remember and all clear) I was hooked up to a drip and overnighted for observation. 

The next morning and slightly more 'with it', I found that I had an overnight bag next to my bed. Fantastic, or so I thought.  I opened up the bag and found a pair of ski socks, a letter from Annie, one teddy bear, non matching pyjamas, one pair of my knickers, one pair of Annie’s knickers...no sign of a wash bag, oh and an old pair of slip on flip flops.  Admittedly, my family had little time to get things together for me as the house was in a state of emergency but Annie did have time to write a two sided note apologising for her behaviour earlier in the day and said that she loved me.  As much as I would have chewed off my own arm for a toothbrush at this point, as i had a mouth like Gandhi's flip flop, the note was lovely.

Whilst I was trying to find something useful in my overnight bag, Alan was trying to track me down via a mountain of phone calls to the hospital.  After 55 minutes of trying and possibly believing that the whole thing was a stunt and that I had left him, he was finally put through to a ward where the nurse asked him if I I had had the baby yet.  To this he replied ‘I bloody hope not!’. In error he had been put through to maternity! It is so true, you can always find humour in adversity. I nearly wet myself laughing at this one.

So in summary, meningitis scare over, CT scan shows I do have a brain and nothing sinister and all tests clear.   I only need to go back if I get any strange headaches or start acting out of character.  Alan says if I stop nagging he will run me back in immediately.  Oh yes, very funny. 
Following a recommendation from the hospital, I went to my local GP for a follow up the day after I got home.  The last time I saw my doctor we were talking Gastric Bands.  One month on, having been so healthy and this happens! I cannot believe it I think my body just went into shock, maybe I overdosed on pulses or maybe it just needs doughnuts...lots and lots of doughnuts.  Seriously, all is well.  My sister thinks that it was all brought on by a neck strain whilst training for our synchronised swimming.  That made me laugh as well.

Aside from all of this, if I have any words of wisdom to offer you this week ladies, let it be this: never ever buy cheap leggings.  I still seem to be functioning ok with my Marks and Spencer’s ones but the two pair pack I bought at Sainsbury’s are having a fight with my waist and crotch area.  11 and half pounds off and I cannot get them to sit right.  I seem to be having a bad underwear day every day and am forever sorting out my undercarriage.  Maybe this is the closest I will ever get to feeling like a man? Anyway,  I pull my leggings up to under my boobs (whilst in the Haka squat position) and by the time I have made it from the living room to the kitchen, they have rolled over my tummy and are suspended on my hip area with crotch area displaced south by 6 inches.  With my stiff neck and restriction in stride length, I am walking like a penguin.

So here is hoping for a rather less eventful week. Eleven and a half pounds of fat gone and fifty eight and a half pound to go. Sx

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