Day 4 - Bedside

The perfectionist in me wanted to pull everything off my bedside table, dust the top and then put away the books, nail polish, jewellery and display just a couple of journals along with my retro lamp and a jewellery box...

but as you can see, I decided *what you see is what you get* and just took the photo as it was. This is it - reality...

Day 3 - Your Neighbourhood

We live in a small village in the Blue Mountains. We are surrounded by National Park...weatherboard cottages and trails like this one...

The Great Western Highway and railway line run through these villages and what were once commuter townships have since developed into tight communities with schools, churches, shopping centres and high quality coffee shops and restaurants.


We have lived here since we were married, our girls love it and we love the sense of community as well as being so close to nature. It's a healthy lifestyle, with walking tracks at our doorstep, as well as aquatic centres with excellent facilities and sporting opportunities for our children.

The wildlife is just beautiful, in the past month, we have had two wallabies, one kangaroo, a stork, a turtle and a black snake visit us...all coming within metres of our house (needless to say I wasn't all that keen on the snake, but it made its happy way out of our block eventually)


I wouldn't live anywhere else. We are blessed to live here.




And just for a bit of trivia - Dymphna Cusack and Florence James wrote "Come in Spinner" whilst renting a cottage in this village in the 1940's...they hired a "local" woman to run their errands and do some housekeeping for them, her name was Kath Walker and under their guidance she eventually wrote her memoirs, which were published under the title "Caddie"...

The foot saga continues...

I had an ultrasound and x-rays on my foot last Thursday.

The ultrasound technician was very friendly and started off by complementing me on my "soft and flexible" foot...a nice change from the feet riddled with arthritis that she usually sees...I was sitting on the bed feeling quite smug and then she started the ultrasound on the sore foot...

From the looks on her face, and the way she went over certain areas of my foot a few times, I was sure of one of two things :

a) This whole thing was in my mind and there was absolutely *nothing* wrong with my foot (omg am I a hypochondriac after all?)

OR

b) There was something *more* wrong with my foot than just the little Neuroma we were all looking for.


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I asked her (although I knew she wasn't allowed to discuss this with me) whether she could see anything going on there...

She of course replied that she couldn't discuss, but that there was a little bit more going on with the sole of my foot than expected, I then told her about a couple of fractures I suffered about 18 years ago and she said that could explain "some" of what she saw...then the doctor came in and they started talking about my foot as if I wasn't there...I can't even remember the terms they used, but I deducted that there appears to be some damage to the "plantal" (?) region of the foot, as well as a Neuroma...


I then went in for the x-rays, and I was given the films to bring with me to my GP...well, there is something WEIRD going on with my big toe...there are two "lumps" showing in the x-rays...calcification perhaps???


The suspense is killing me, and the pain is frustrating me. It is there when I wake up, it is almost constant...I need to keep changing position throughout the day...


I have an appointment with my GP on Monday morning and hopefully all will be explained and we will embark on some form of treatment...in the meantime I've wallowed in self pity and haven't worked out...I read about Bloggers who started learning to run when I did, and they are now running further distances more frequently. This frustrates me, as I was really enjoying the running...but common sense and self-preservation prevails and I know that to do anything like a long walk or even short bursts of running could cause further damage....


So the waiting goes on, I am hoping to make it to the gym over the weekend for some weight training. I love Pump classes but don't think it's a good idea, as the lunges really hurt my foot, so maybe time to dig out some of my old weights programs and do that instead.



Blogger is being silly and am having trouble posting. I have Day 3 of the March Photo a Day waiting to be posted so will keep trying.


Hope you're having a great weekend.


xo

March Photo a Day Challenge - Day 2

Day 2  -  "FRUIT"


Lucky for me that I took this photo today and not two days ago when there was NO fruit in the house...That's where our fruit lives, on top of the microwave...loving those little Gala apples and so are my kids...easy to eat and so sweet, and look at those pears...nothing says "Autumn" to me like a bowl full of juicy pears, they won't last long.

March Photo a Day Challenge Day 1

Day 1 -  "UP"





Looking up from my deck ... it was actually pouring with rain, but you can't quite see it in the photo...that's all we've seen for what seems like months now...grey skies and RAIN

Just for fun in March...

I have never done one of these before...but a few people whose blogs I read had so much fun with it in February that I thought I'd join in :-)

A day late, so I will upload two photos today...

Decided to just brave the scales this morning to keep myself accountable.

I have learnt from my past that if I stop weighing myself due to a "break" in my routine, usually caused by an injury or time of stress, I go into a *denial* phase and just lose control of the situation.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that my weight has remained stable. No loss, but more importantly, no gain since last week...and this even after a week where a few small indulgences were allowed.

So instead of heading towards complacency, as I would usually do, I am determined to just push through this little set back instead of letting it become a step backwards in my journey of fitness and weight loss.


A major win for me in the mindset department...it seems I am getting wiser as I get older :-)




Feeling good.


X-rays and Ultrasound this afternoon.