So, I'm still seeing my PT twice a week. My weight was still going up, and I almost hit 100kilos, which I've never been before. But, I am still decreasing my size, and have even dropped a bra size when I got measured recently.
As sexy as I look in a bra and a pair of shorts (not!), I am pleased that even *I* can see that my back-fat is going, and I now have a waist again.
Both my girls are now in school, as DD2 recently started year 7. She does enjoy it, but is very tired. Having gone from needing 10-12 hours sleep a night, to having to leave the house at 7.30am, return near 5, then rush straight to dance lessons and often doesn't get home aain until 9.30 or 10pm, is a bit of a shock for her.
As schools have gone back, I'm tutoring again now. My days have changed this year, so I work Tuesday mornings, Wednesday mornings and Thursday afternoons. I don't have much free time, though, as I'm still involved with Home Education locally, nationally and politically. (Ok, I don't know if 'politically' makes any sense in that sentence, but the rhythm made me feel like it needed a third thing there.)
I am trying to read too, but that has slowed somewhat. As I don't need to wait at dance in the evenings anymore, I don't have as much time to read. Also, in the few gaps I've had during the day, I have had a bit of a TV binge, watching non-kids TV during the day! Very exciting. I have recently watched Sex Eduction, Love on the Spectrum, Motherland, and I was getting into Making a Murderer, until my husband joined me one day, and now I'm 'not allowed' to watch it without him. Yet, since then, we haven't watched it together at all, so if he's not careful I'm going to continue watching it and just not tell him, lol.
And yes, I am aware that I haven't caught up with the book reviews I said I would write a month ago. Despite everything I've written here (and this feels like a lot to me), I've even more things going on.
DD1 has been having mini absence seizures/blackouts for a while, though she didn't tell me that they had become frequent until last October. I told her to keep a diary in case it was related to what she had been eating or time of the month or anything like that, and we made an appointment to see the GP. Fast forward to February, and we were referred to hospital to see a neurologist and to have an EEG. As part of this, they gave DD1 a general health check and discovered she had a heart murmur. Not a big surprise or concern as my husband had one when he was little, but they referred us for an ECG. And another. And an echo. And a heart consultant who told use they would be bringing in the big-guns from a nearby city to look at her heart, because she has a hole in her heart. As you can imagine, this was a bit of a shock, given she was 13yo at the time, fit as a fiddle, loads of dance, and zero symptoms (breathlessness, fatigue, palpatations or enlargement of the heart).
Anyway, we saw the big-gun heart consultant, who did another ECG and echo (which incidentally, is really interesting, as the computor automatically colours the blood blue and red depending on whether the blood has been oxygenised or not). She confirmed that the hole in the heart is nothing to do with the mini blackouts DD1 had been having, and because the EEG was clear, they (the hospital) are not following that up at the moment. However, DD1 does not have a hole in her heart - she has two plus a leaky valve! (It's a partial AVSD for anyone who wants to google it.) Due to where the holes are located, they cannot go up the leg/groin to close it, but she will need open heart surgery. But, it isn't urgent, because she has no other symptoms, so don't worry about it too much. It's a fairly straightforward procedure, etc etc, and just has to be done before she becomes an adult, as if left unfixed, it could cause massive problems when she's in her 20s and 30s.
Then over the summer we had a virtual consulatation with a surgeon, who said they expected surgery to be in October! DD1 would have to be in hospital for at least a week, at least a month off school, at least 3 months off dancing. All of a sudden this became very real! Due to dance festivals finally starting up again (and the enxt one being in October) we have asked for the surgery to be postponed until the summer term, but we will follow the guidance of the consultant. Meanwhile, DD1 has had even more hospital appointments, and had to wear a 24hr heart monitor, and been asked to participate in research before/after surgery, so my suspician is that it will be sooner, rather than later.
Oh, and we have got a second dog, Luna.
