Being a carer for my Mum and Dad takes up more time than I ever imagined but I wouldn't have it any other way, we've settled into some sort of routine starting on a Sunday with me cooking a massive lunch in order to plate up takeaways for Mum and Dad during the week, it saves them cooking the more complicated dinners and just leaves the simple meals for them to make together.
At the end of April I had got myself over-tired and during a hospital appointment for Mum I passed out! Well if you're going to pass out its the best place to do it! When I came round they were checking for Heart attack and stroke!! I felt so stupid! anyway everything was ok, it was just my blood pressure, it had dropped really low. Poor Mum had to sit on a chair in her knickers while I rested on the bed lol. I promised to take things easy for a few days and kept an eye on my blood pressure with our monitor and it returned back to normal. The last thing I wanted was to be ill, we had booked a last minute holiday to Corfu for the 2nd May.
Monday. 2nd May saw us jetting off to the sun for two whole weeks of relaxation, it was raining quite hard when we took off from our local airport and when we arrived in Corfu 3 hours later it was pouring down! Thunder and lightening like I've never seen before.....great start!! That continued overnight and by morning it had settled down to being overcast but warm, by Wednesday the sun was out and it was hot hot hot!!! Fabulous, just what we both needed, 2 weeks of all inclusive and nobody to please but ourselves. We returned home on the 16th both refreshed and ready to tackle the garden!
The last 2 weeks have been spent catching up on chores, sorting out the greenhouse, veg plots and the garden. Hopefully this weekend we will have time to sort out the caravan ready for a few trips away over the coming summer months.
Todays blood pressure reading is 100/68 normal for me :-)
Thank you for popping by, have a lovely Bank holiday weekend.
Karen xxx
