Shout Out for Our NHS

I think I’ve mentioned in a previous post how exhausted I have felt lately. So tired that on some days I have fallen asleep sitting up whilst I’ve been working. I can’t sleep at night time so sleeping during the day is practically unheard of!

My family have been nagging me to go to the doctors for weeks, so last week I grabbed the bull by the horns and went. Having had cancer before, there is always a nagging little feeling that it might have come back.

Once at the doctors, it was go go go as he organised blood tests and X-rays. So last week was a week of many many health care appointments.

Can I just say, I know the NHS gets a lot of grief but I could not have been happier with my care. The doctor I saw was reassuring, took me seriously and was incredibly thorough.

The appointments at the hospital were arranged almost immediately and I was seen within two days. They even managed to arrange the appointments one after the other so I did not have to attend on separate days for separate appointments.

I was then seen half an hour early for the X-ray and immediately after they took me for the blood tests. Literally, I was out before the actual time of my first appointment came round! Again, everyone was caring and professional.

The doctor said he was crossing all the t-s and dotting all the i-s, but wasn’t expecting anything to show up. I’ve not heard back yet for everything but one of my bloods showed a low level of vitamin D which is not that unexpected given I live in the UK.

My weightless has slowed down considerably over the past couple of months. It’s frustrating when you know you are doing everything you can, and exercising everyday, all to no avail. So Tuesday last week, with all my appointments and tests, I decided to take the rest of the week off everything. No exercising. No watching what I ate. No nothing.

I weighed myself this morning, and I’m down a pound! I have absolutely no idea how that happened, but I am very happy.

However, the fact is, I don’t feel good when I am not exercising and eating well. Last week, I was so, so tired. Like bone tired. As an insomniac I am tired a lot. But this was different. However, the week off seems to have done me the world of good.

Today I went for a super long walk into the gorgeous woodland that surrounds us. Oh my goodness, it was glorious! There was absolutely no-one about. Harv and I saw deer, mice, a woodpecker woodpeckering, all sorts of other birds and I was so inspired by it all.

I love drawing animals and we saw so many different ones. Unfortunately I didn’t take my phone with me. I wanted some time with God, alone and uninterrupted. But next time, tomorrow, I am going to take my phone and get some pictures which I will hopefully try to turn into art. It was so incredible to come back from my walk so inspired and raring to go! Energised, some might say 😊

It is just past nine and I have already closed my one hour exercise rings (on my Apple Watch) and I am half way through closing my moving rings (and the day hasn’t really even started yet!!). Charlotte and I are going to the gym tonight. And we are now officially on summer break.

Life is good. Really really good.