Home!

As most of you know, I'm now home and have been home for over a week! :) I'm really glad to be home - I'm still not feeling great, but I'd rather be feeling crap at home than feeling crap in hospital.

I went 'back' to uni yesterday just for an hour - for lecture and then to meet with my dissertation supervisors. Saying that, I'm not going to be going back until after Christmas now because I'm all finished!

We went to see Noel Fielding last week and he was hilarious. Like, if you are into his sort of stuff then definitely go and see it. I'm not sure if it was just because I was there or if it was because it was really funny anyway but I thought it was the funniest thing he'd done yet. There was a few of the old classic Noel gags but lots of really funny and creative new stuff as well. We were in the small theatre of the guild hall and it was so small and intimate which made it so special and he was able to interact with pretty much the whole audience. I was worried our seats were going to be rubbish but it was so small that there weren't any rubbish seats. There was about 8 people sat in the little section where we were and he kept joking that we were in the bum seats because we were at the side - but it's the best seats I've ever had to anything! At one point he actually sat on the seat in front of me! It was such a good night and even Mum (who thinks she's far too mature for that sort of humour!) belly laughed most of the way through.

I've been hammering all my uni work so that I can try and start Christmas as soon as possible! Saying that - all my Christmas shopping is done! I spent last night polishing and submitting assignments and I am going to spend today doing the same. I have two more to polish, one completed one to submit and a further assignment to complete and submit. I'm getting there!

On Monday, Irwin and Becca came round for a day of Christmassyness. I made my corned beef hash for them and we (eventually!) made a gingerbread house. It fell down three times and I did not think we were going to get there, but my girls are so stubborn and carried on grafting that house of sweets whilst I texted into Jordan North telling him what a hard life we were having! Next thing, Jordan is on the phone asking us how it's going and I a was so shocked that he called that I just about had a breakdown over the phone - how embarrassing! I genuinely did not know what was going on! He said he was going to play the call on the radio but he didn't so that was probably for the best! It was a very exciting part of our day though because I listen to Jordan's home run every day, loyally as routine, because he's so funny and everyone from Lancashire obviously loves him. Sam doesn't. Sam thinks I fancy Jordan, and hates him.

Then... on Tuesday I went for my barium. It went way better than expected! They gave me half a cup of barium for upper GI and then they were going to put gastrograffin down my tube for the rest of it, however I tolerated sipping most of the barium with only a little bit of sickness after the first couple of cups so I didn't need any gastrograffin! I also got to go and see Becs afterwards on the ward which was nice, because I miss seeing her face every day! I'm in quite a bit of pain from the barium now so I'm flushing my tube with as much water as I can tolerate and drinking as much tea as I can manage (latter is such a chore! ;)).

Then that takes us up to yesterday and today :) I don't really have much to update in medical terms. I am seeing my new consultant on 7th January and I am still waiting for the 7 day transit study. I don't think that it will be done before I see him in clinic which is a shame because it will probably cause another big delay in getting things sorted. Really not happy with the awful service at Salford and wish that I could still be under Wythenshawe. Thank goodness I'm home!

Hopefully I will get a bit of normality back now. I won't be returning to work at the hospital sadly as they have stopped using agency staff but hopefully in the new year I can find another job, or go back to the care agency. For now though, I'm building up my strength, doing some things I enjoy (once my uni work is done!) and enjoying Christmas!

Oh, also - I did not get offered a place on Schools Direct at University of Cumbria after all the time I spent preparing for it! So I have accepted a place at Edge Hill, which I had decided to do anyway in the end, even before my rejection. This alleviates all the stress I was having about where I was going with my life. I just need to pass my skills tests now before July!