OOH LA LA...

Crikey the 8th already, so much to do so little time to do it all....

Christmas was great, followed by a very memorable New Year at my sons wine bar, dressed as the local tottie. The theme was "Moulin Rouge", several of my nursing friends (Ruth brought her long term boyfriend 'Pierre' who is French, he really fitted in with the scenery a treat) joined us getting into the spirt of things by dressing up for the celebrations.

Nat had hired props for the evening such as French lampposts/windmill etc.....I have a few shots we took with my little camera that I can show you now. Nat hired a professional photographer and I promise you that as soon as Nat hands those pics along with views of his bar 'before & after' shots, I will post them. Saying that, Nat is so busy at the moment, trying to tie him down is like grasping fog!!!!

Nat needing an eyebrow pluck!!!

I can't wait to show you some of the costumes the crowd there were wearing, absolutely fabulous, stunning girls and their partners looking proper dapper. After a few hours Math & Nat's false hair bits started to aggravate them and they ended up being stuck to the champagne bottles. Yuck!!!

Nat & his girlfriend

Myself with Ruth & Moira (nursing friends)

(I look like I'm sucking a piece of lemon)!!!

Ruth & Pierre

Alas the celebrations I knew were to be short lived, as just before Christmas my stepfather had been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. He has to start intense radiotherapy the Sunday following New Year, three times a day for twelve days. I have to be completely honest here and say that Doug (my stepfather) and I had not always shared the closest of relationships. But he is the father of my two younger sisters, and with everything that's been happening with our mum, this was another emotional turmoil that I wish they could have been spared. Nevertheless we work close together when there are storms around us and we will weather this storm.

Yesterday I had an appointment with my consultant at Queens hospital, which I will go into more detail with on a later post. Then we drove over to the City hospital to visit Doug, who seemed to be coping well, although his breathing was rather laboured. This morning I had to go to mums case conference at Kings Mill hospital, so all in all I have become a loiterer of the local hospitals these last few days.
Good news with mum though, they are upping her care which will include evening care which solves a one of the big problems we have with her not taking her evening meds. Also they are going to start her on a drug for her Alzhemer's disease. That is once they have leveled out her pulse rate, so lets hope this helps with some of her difficulties.

Thanks for all your good wishes over Christmas & New Year, I will post shortly about how my visit with Dr Gorgeous went after things have steadied down a bit here.

See you soon. Queenie x