Health & Fitness

  • Village life

    Village life

      You wanna go where people know, people are all the same, You wanna go where everybody knows your name. – Cheers Theme Tune  Where Everybody Knows Your Name by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo When I was a teenager I did everything to leave the small town that I have lived in since…

  • I survived….. Just!  Part 4, I’m Home well for a while.

    I survived….. Just! Part 4, I’m Home well for a while.

    As I’m writing this we have been home 7 weeks!  My recovery is going well but slower than I would like. I try to push myself and then end up feeling poorly so I need to learn to take it easier. We arrived home Tuesday evening quite late. I needed to sleep and was…

  • Grateful Sunday!

    Grateful Sunday!

    This week I decided to start a daily gratitude list. I have done it before both on my own and as a family – We would send our list to each other (Myself Hubby & Stepson) via our family messenger group! It really helped especially when hubby worked away and with stepson only being…

  • I survived….. Just! (Placenta Percreta Cesarean hysterectomy) Part 3

    I survived….. Just! (Placenta Percreta Cesarean hysterectomy) Part 3

    If you have come straight to this page you really should start with part one and part two of my story. I ended last week by telling you they had found my bowel had twisted. The anaesthetist that had been with me since we had arrived at Jessops was the one that came to…

  • I survived….. Just! (Placenta Percreta Cesarean hysterectomy) Part 2

    I survived….. Just! (Placenta Percreta Cesarean hysterectomy) Part 2

    Please Note images may be upsetting for some readers!  Part one of my journey can be found here! Saturday 2nd – The day went well – tried again to breastfeed, got out of bed and used the toilet. Then by tea time I started vomiting –  I was transferred to a ward during the…