Normality returns, whatever that is!

This is the biggest break I've had between blog posts. Since my last post, we've started to do some of the normal things that everyone takes for granted. Easter was spent visiting family in Bath. My birthday weekend followed and we spent the day at Woburn Safari Park. I've also returned to work, phasing my return over the coming weeks.

It's hard to realise how much you miss and crave the strict formalities of life until you have to do them after a period of abstinence. Basic things like getting into a routine of getting up, going to work, surviving the trials and tribulations of the working world, returning home to discuss the ludicrousness of it all over dinner, settling down to an evening's banal televisual output, then retiring to bed only to start all over again the following morning is something that had been so lost from my life that I'd forgotten what it is like. I'd forgotten what it feels like to have office banter, in-jokes, put-downs, nick-names and the like. I'd forgotten what it feels like to belong. But more importantly, I'd forgotten how good all this feels.

This week, now my 2nd back to work after a 6 month absence, I've experienced another one of those Stephen Covey Paradigm Shifts. Where once I would return home tired, frustrated, fed up, angry, and desperate for change, I can now see how reassuring all those things really are. I missed 6 months at work, but missed nothing at all. Like an old pair of shoes, thrown to the back of the cupboard, then rediscovered, I found I fitted in like a hand in a glove (or perhaps a foot in a shoe!).

So enough of me, how's Vicki? She continues to make good progress. We're still awaiting a date for the removal of her Hickman line, but she is quite well, and is slowly starting to work her strength back up. Removed from the burden of visits to Leicester we're both much more at ease with the world. We're also still awaiting news from the genetic specialist, but I've been researching this myself, and I'll probably blog some info on this once I've learned a little more.

Talking of returning to normality, it's not escaped my attention that there is a General Election looming. I would ask you all to question any politician that visits you over the next few weeks about their policies on health, and examine them closely.