Bye bye 2013

Well it is the last day of 2013.

I think I can say this has been a year of ups and downs.

Husband had his first book published so most of the beginning of the year was devoted to getting it finished and off to the publisher.  Then getting it back for approval and finally it goes into the shops.
I am very proud of him for getting it all done.

We have lost two members of my family.  First my grandfather then his brother a week or so after.

My daughter started full time school and my son started nursery. They are both getting so big and so grown up. My son is loving school and goes on about his friends and what he has been learning.  It is just a shame we found out he can't hear. (See earlier post) My daughter also likes school and has three boyfriends lol. We did have a few issues with her, at home, behaviour at the start of the term. Think this was down to being tired after a full day at school. Her behaviour at school was expemporary. She has has a couple of certificates praising her behaviour.

We also had the bead incident (see earlier post)

I have had my pacemaker for over a year now and I can say that I have not collapsed since I had it implanted. We have found out that the pacemaker will last another 7 years not the 10 it should be. This is down to it being on rate response rater than being constantly on. But 7 years is better than collapsing any day.

Christmas was lovely we stayed at home for the frist time. I did the cooking and I think it came out ok.

Hoping for a good year for 2014.

Knee

For the last few weeks I have had a bad knee. I don't know what I have done but it came up in a massive bruise.

Now let me explain...

I have previously had an operation, called a lateral release,  on this knee in 2005. This was performed because my knee cap was miss tracking causing pain and dislocation.

I thought that that was that all fixed, well for 8 years all fixed. But then this bruise came up.

Now I have pain, clicking and grinding noises coming from my knee every time I walk.

I made an appointment with the GP who said that I needed to rest for two weeks and it should go away!
How am I supposed to do this when I have two kids who I have to walk to school and back three times a day. This trip is three miles every day. Good for my weight loss not good for my knee.

Dam Doctors

Well after pushing for my son to get a hearing test. We have found out that he has glue ear in both ears. He has hearing loss -50 in this right and -40 something in his left. He also had a pressure test, this test sees how well your ear drum is working, which came back as a flat line on both sides. Normally it will go up and then come down.

So what do you think the doctor is going to do about it...

...NOTHING for three months.

This has been going on for almost a year. I know all about glue ear which is why I waited 9 months before seeing my GP about his hearing. Then it took three months to get an appointment to see the docs at ENT.

The doctor did say he would need gromits and most likely a hearing aid! So why make me wait!!! He should be on the waiting list for the operation.

Well I can tell you I was not happy so I made an appointment with my GP. After seeing the GP we now have to wait for another two weeks as there is nothing she can do until the letter from the hospital comes through to them. If the letter says that we have to wait my GP will call the consultant in charge and tell them I am not happy to have my son wait.

This is affecting his balance and he keeps falling over. Currently my son is sporting a nice black eye from the latest fall.

I am now going to start writing a list of how meny times he is falling over and if it has resulted in an injury.  Then present it to the doctor and see what they say then!

Will blog again when something happens.