Wednesday evening 7pm - taxi office for my killer 5 nights in a row 
Still, I've just had 2 nights off so 
You'll all be pleased to hear that my Nanny finally got her blood transfusion yesterday and is now right as rain again, woohoo! She got back last night and within a couple of hours was able to go and make herself some dinner, wash up and everything else whereas before she didn't have the puff to be able to move around even. This mylodysplacia is quite a nasty disease (but then I guess that's why they call it pre-leukaemia). Anyway, her lovely consultant has now told her and my mum how to fast-track her into the haemotology unit if she's unwell and needs blood out of hours. Additionally, she's now got to go in every 3 weeks from now on, rather than 4 as she's getting lower and can't last 4 weeks without blood. I don't care and neither does she, as long as she's feeling ok. This weekend gone she thought it was her lot but thankfully it wasn't
I hope to see her very soon and give her a big hug!! 
Unfortunately Tessie is not so good now. She's been peeing a lot again this last week or so and getting me up in the night for a wee too. This means her blood sugar level has gone up which is not good news. I've made sure she's not had any treats at all and been very regular with her daily insulin injection but still she's drinking and weeing too much. It all came to a head this morning. I'd left her alone for a couple of hours (for the first time in probably a week!) and I came home to find her sat on the sofa. I knew immediately that something was amiss as she always goes to bed the minute I leave the house. Straight away I thought she'd peed on my bed and she bloody had!!
Not only that but I had a plastic sheet under my bedlinen so that if she peed it wouldn't seep through. It had moved so she peed directly onto my flat sheet and it had soaked through to my mattress. I'm lucky that I bought a new, quite expensive mattress last year - it's a memory foam one and it comes with an entire zippable (and really thick, quilted) cover over it. So it's just a simple case of unzipping it and taking it to the launderette. Still it's gonna cost me money I can't afford right now and the inconvenience of sleeping directly on the foam for the night tonight. I might just sleep on the sofa tonight and be done with it
She's also been fussy with her food the last 2 days too; this is another sign that she's off-par. The good thing is that I don't have to go anywhere without her in the coming week so I will make sure she's ok. This evening for instance, where she hadn't eaten her mixer this morning, she started twitching and falling over by 6pm tonight, just as we got in the taxi office. I'm soooooooo glad I bought a small bag of jam doughnuts at lunchtime today! Half of one of those and she was back to normal! Yay!! Luckily I was in the vets last week getting her insulin prescription and they said her 3 monthly checkup is due at the end of this month so she's all booked in to have her next fructosamine blood tests. It'll be good because then we can see what's been going on in that little body of hers this week as it reports on the previous 3 weeks. I'm hoping it's just a blip - these happen sometimes - but if she is deteriorating I'll be disappointed. One good thing is that we can increase the insulin yet to 15 units but then after that it will be 2 jabs a day which I don't want her to have, at least not yet. Still, I'll be keeping a very close eye on her in the coming days and whatever she needs, I can give her. Bless her heart.
What else? Work is ok - I've potentially got an extremely large job coming up which could secure my business for a long time to come (how many times have I thought/said that before!!) Now it's warmer again, I'm trying to spend as much time as I can in my office; that way I get a lot more work done without the distraction of household chores, tv and visitors etc. Yet again though, I've put off a report which I shouldn't have done and now I need to get it done TONIGHT for tomorrow, it's my own fault; I've got no-one else to blame but myself!
I'm still struggling really badly to get up in the mornings too; I even got up this morning at 6.30 and put the radio on to try and keep me awake; the next thing I knew it was 9.30!
Not Good It's not that I don't want to get up, my body literally won't let me!!
OK, I think that's enough from me today; I need to get on with this report and controlling Gosports taxi drivers!!
Much love to you all
Emma............xx
Still, I've just had 2 nights off so
You'll all be pleased to hear that my Nanny finally got her blood transfusion yesterday and is now right as rain again, woohoo! She got back last night and within a couple of hours was able to go and make herself some dinner, wash up and everything else whereas before she didn't have the puff to be able to move around even. This mylodysplacia is quite a nasty disease (but then I guess that's why they call it pre-leukaemia). Anyway, her lovely consultant has now told her and my mum how to fast-track her into the haemotology unit if she's unwell and needs blood out of hours. Additionally, she's now got to go in every 3 weeks from now on, rather than 4 as she's getting lower and can't last 4 weeks without blood. I don't care and neither does she, as long as she's feeling ok. This weekend gone she thought it was her lot but thankfully it wasn't
I hope to see her very soon and give her a big hug!!
Unfortunately Tessie is not so good now. She's been peeing a lot again this last week or so and getting me up in the night for a wee too. This means her blood sugar level has gone up which is not good news. I've made sure she's not had any treats at all and been very regular with her daily insulin injection but still she's drinking and weeing too much. It all came to a head this morning. I'd left her alone for a couple of hours (for the first time in probably a week!) and I came home to find her sat on the sofa. I knew immediately that something was amiss as she always goes to bed the minute I leave the house. Straight away I thought she'd peed on my bed and she bloody had!!
Not only that but I had a plastic sheet under my bedlinen so that if she peed it wouldn't seep through. It had moved so she peed directly onto my flat sheet and it had soaked through to my mattress. I'm lucky that I bought a new, quite expensive mattress last year - it's a memory foam one and it comes with an entire zippable (and really thick, quilted) cover over it. So it's just a simple case of unzipping it and taking it to the launderette. Still it's gonna cost me money I can't afford right now and the inconvenience of sleeping directly on the foam for the night tonight. I might just sleep on the sofa tonight and be done with it
She's also been fussy with her food the last 2 days too; this is another sign that she's off-par. The good thing is that I don't have to go anywhere without her in the coming week so I will make sure she's ok. This evening for instance, where she hadn't eaten her mixer this morning, she started twitching and falling over by 6pm tonight, just as we got in the taxi office. I'm soooooooo glad I bought a small bag of jam doughnuts at lunchtime today! Half of one of those and she was back to normal! Yay!! Luckily I was in the vets last week getting her insulin prescription and they said her 3 monthly checkup is due at the end of this month so she's all booked in to have her next fructosamine blood tests. It'll be good because then we can see what's been going on in that little body of hers this week as it reports on the previous 3 weeks. I'm hoping it's just a blip - these happen sometimes - but if she is deteriorating I'll be disappointed. One good thing is that we can increase the insulin yet to 15 units but then after that it will be 2 jabs a day which I don't want her to have, at least not yet. Still, I'll be keeping a very close eye on her in the coming days and whatever she needs, I can give her. Bless her heart.
What else? Work is ok - I've potentially got an extremely large job coming up which could secure my business for a long time to come (how many times have I thought/said that before!!) Now it's warmer again, I'm trying to spend as much time as I can in my office; that way I get a lot more work done without the distraction of household chores, tv and visitors etc.
Yet again though, I've put off a report which I shouldn't have done and now I need to get it done TONIGHT for tomorrow, it's my own fault; I've got no-one else to blame but myself!
I'm still struggling really badly to get up in the mornings too; I even got up this morning at 6.30 and put the radio on to try and keep me awake; the next thing I knew it was 9.30!
Not Good It's not that I don't want to get up, my body literally won't let me!!
OK, I think that's enough from me today; I need to get on with this report and controlling Gosports taxi drivers!!
Much love to you all
Emma............xx
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Good to hear about your nan glad she is gettin on better and hopefully the more regular blood transfusions will ahve her right as rain!
Hope Tess is alright too! Hopefully lots of TLC will see her through! Give her a hug from me!
I'm living about 20 mins on the bus from Waterloo in south east London so its pretty handy! I've settled back in surprisingly quickly. I think its something to do with my new get on with it and be positive attitude. I hope I can keep it up because its making me feel better in myself.
Hope work doesn't get to stressful and you keep on top of it all! Have a good week!
strangely, i'm completely serious. i have been around my works asking people which god they think i should follow, and people have suggested loki and hades....you prob have to know me better to appriciate this. i would love to hear your thoughts on it x