Well, it's nearly the end of this year and the start of the next, cant wait. I've got a feeling it's going to be a very happy, healthy and productive year for me & mine, roll on 2012.!!???!!
2011 had many low points for me and my family, along with massive high ones too. There didn't seem to be any middle ground all year. Just as I wanted to give up because things where getting too hard, something good happened and it restored my faith in humanity once again. The low points all involved my baby boy, Christopher, who's 10. It all started before Christmas last year with tests on his congenital heart defect to see if his next heart operation was within sight. Then after Christmas there were more tests on his heart followed with the devastating news that we'd been waiting for for 9 years, he needed more surgery. He was then placed on his surgeons waiting list. On the 13th July 2011, Chris, Millie, Alex, Christopher and myself set off to Alder Hey Children's Hospital at 6am, as Christopher was the first and only surgery case of the day as his operation was going to take roughly 6 hours. We all kissed him off at the theatre doors just before 9am not knowing that for the next 6 weeks he would struggle with one complication after another and we would nearly lose him on a few occasions, bless, the thought of what he went through still haunts me and makes me cry. He went to theatre 6 times in 6 weeks, it was heart wrenching seeing my baby struggling to cling onto life and all I could do was watch. In the end we stayed at Alder Hey for 6 immensely stressful weeks, the only things that got Christopher and myself through was the love and support from our family and friends. I thank you from the bottom of our hearts and I will never forget, you all know who you are. That had to be the lowest time of our lives along with finding out about Christopher's serious heart condition at 32 weeks pregnant all those years ago.
We go back to Alder Hey for more tests at the end of January and hopefully they will reduce some more of the drugs he's taking. Christopher is doing really well at the moment and getting fitter week by week. He's back at school but not back to doing all his hobbies yet and he still gets very tiered out. It's amazing to think things could have been so different. With all he went through in those six weeks it is a miracle he's pulled through and lives to tell the tale, oh and show off all his war wounds too lol.!!!!
All the high points of 2011 also included all our children. Millie, 15, is steaming ahead with her discus and her first competition of 2012 is in May and it's at the Olympic Village in London, very exiting stuff. Her coach tells us that her current distance puts her 2nd in the country in her category!!!! , amazing since she's only been doing it less than a year, she now has to train at Wigan Harriers twice a week from January. I'm one very proud Mummy, she's so inspirational.
Then there's our Alex, 14, she's been picked to play and train for the Lancashire Girls Golf Team, she's also astounding her Daddy and me. She now has a lower handicap than her Dad hahaha, it's a family joke!
I also had more surgery earlier in the year. I had a thigh lift to remove the hanging extra skin I had around my thighs after losing 14 stone in weight. The operation then left me with numerous infections in the scar tissue. I needed to go back to hospital a few times for extra treatment and intravenous antibiotics. On one occasion, I had to stay in for a week and it was Millie's birthday and I missed it, I was gutted. I hate letting my family down but there was nothing I could do about it as I was very poorly and running a temp of 39.6!!!!
The exciting stuff about 2011 for me involved getting about doing lots of media thingy's and my charity/fundraising work, that will carry on throughout next year, doing even more!!!? As for the moment, I'm homing in on my fitness and running abilities, as it will soon be April and that's when me and my hunk of hoo, Chris, are competing in the London Marathon for my charity, Ronald McDonald House Charities. So over Christmas I've still kept my running and spinning up, as my goal for January is to drop a stone in weight, run for an hour everyday apart from Saturdays with a 10 - 15 miler every Sunday !!??!! My goal is to run the whole 26.2 miles of the London Marathon without stopping and in under 6 hours- I'm hoping!!??!!?? That's an hour for every week we stayed in Alder Hey with Christopher over the summer.
There's only a few hours to go until 2012, so I'd better start getting ready, as we're taking the kids to the pictures then it's early to bed, then early to raise with an early morning jog on over the tops of Longridge past the Golf Club ?? That should set us up for 2012??. 'HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE' fingers crossed it's a great year for us all. Also, a big thank you to all my chocolate brownie customers, old & new for helping me build my business up over the last 2 years. I had the best Christmas sales to date with some new corporate orders too, i really do appreciate you all. My motto for the year is - 'KEEP FIT-KEEP HAPPY', you can have your cake & eat it! ♥ Just ♥ x
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