Busy Friday.
Usually Friday mornings are a bit slower than the rest of the week, but I had a union meeting to attend at work, so we had to get up and get going at the same time as usual. I don’t know how parents who work from home do it, Willow and the other little girl the same age as here were totally distracting, until a kind colleague took them into her office and let them loose on some coloured paper, stamps and highlighters.
Then we had coffee at Norwood with Sam and his lovely mother Mary, who works for the same organisation as me. It is difficult to hold a decent, continuous conversation with a small child running around. Even harder given my current word finding issues. I don’t think I’ve told either Sam or Mary this, (I guess I am now since Sam reads this blog!) but she reminds me of my own mum in some ways. So it was particularly nice to see Willow interacting with her, she even let her take her for a walk around the shops.
Speaking of Mum, tomorrow is the 5 year anniversary of her death. May is not an easy month for me, with that anniversay, Mother’s Day and her birthday on the 21st. It is a time of the year when I can easily get too self indulgent and slip back.
Oh, Willow’s obsession has gone from ‘hap bircakes’ to ‘yellow’. Everything is yellow, even if she knows it is not! Right now, she is chasing Russ with a pillow from the couch and telling him to go to sleep!
Must go, have doctor’s appointment for more drugs!
Edited to add: I have a script for both Stemetil and Maxolon. Both are likely to make me drowsy, but at this point in time it’s more of a quality of life thing than a medical necessity. I’ll try them over the weekend and see how I go. I took Maxolon while I was pregnant and breastfeeding Willow and one tablet was okay, but when the efficacy decreases, the temptation is to take more. Back then, two tablets meant that I was not confident in my driving skills. I remember getting so fed up with feeling sick that I took two and drove to a training session on the other side of town. That was not a good idea – I got there and just wanted to sleep, so I drove home again. In hindsight, I should have accepted the offers made by my colleagues to drive me.
So that’s why I was hesitant to get a script for eitherMaxolon or Stemetil and ended up using a more powerful drug – Zofran – first.
I could have used this today – the Momergency Kit.
