Post Op & Going For Gold.

I’m just going to start over. I cannot for the life of me find the draft of my post that I have been working on for the past few days. That’s how new I am to all this. It’s probably my punishment for not fulfilling my Accountability goal at MomMasterminds of blogging every day or every other day. Also last night I somehow deleted part of my post that was supposed to be copied and pasted. I have no clue what happened there. Grrr. Anyway, that’s enough griping. It always feels good to get things off my chest before proceeding with the good stuff.

My lost ramblings were about Charlotte’s second visit to the Royal Childrens Hospital. We did the train and tram thing again on Monday and arrived 20 mins early. It was really chilly outside and a wet morning. In fact, the train ride revealed a lot of flooding in the area that we may not have seen in the car. Peter joined us this time, being on hols and all.

We were called in only 25 mins after the appointment time. Not bad considering the number of people waiting.

It was a quick check by the Surgeon and thumbs up. Can’t resist a good pun. Charlotte’s two thumbs are now straight She mastered it very quickly with her bandages on as a four yr old. and She has a couple of small pieces of tape on them. Without the support of the bandages, She is a little reluctant to use her thumbs properly, but each day gets easier. She continues to hold the spoon with her four fingers, scooping the food up in the way a baby does when first learning to use cutlery. Charlotte didn’t do that as a bub, but She worked out how to go about things very rapidly with the bandages on.

It was a stressful week leading into the op & during, but I kept reminding myself that some folks have tragic things to endure in their childrens’ lives. If that’s all we have to contend with, I will count my blessings and already do. We have a happy, healthy, feisty little girl that I’m proud as punch of.

The next thing I’d like to chat to you about is the Blogging Internship I have just taken onboard at Mom Masterminds. I was doing the lesson plans only, but decided to upgrade to the Gold level of this 10 week course because I want to move forward. It means back tracking and starting over which is fine by me.

It took me a few days to mull over the change and whether to do the Silver or Gold level, but I’m going for Gold and believe me, in my life it does feel like I’m training for the Olympics. When you’re trying to turn your life around, there is a lot of hard yakka involved, but my Olympic trainer, Kelly McCausey and all the crew at MM are there to cheer me on, I’m sure, along with my friends and family who probably have no idea what I’m on about, but give me their support, anyway. LOL

It will feel good to get this posted to my blog. I love writing, so I don’t know why it has been a struggle these past few days. Maybe working into the night isn’t my best time and I need to get up early in the morning. I’ll have to experiment around with that one.