Trials and tribulations.

What a week. Last time I blogged I thought I said I felt another trip to Mt Hotham coming on. I certainly thought it. Well, Katrina went to Ski Camp with school. She lasted until Tuesday afternoon when the girl in front of her fell over, Katrina crashed into her, the following girl missed them, but the girl two behind couldn't stop, and she crashed on top of Katrina. Katrina became the meat in the sandwich, and her knee the pretzel after dinner snack. This was during the Cross Country, so she had to ski back to base on a badly damaged knee, aggravating it even more.



She damaged her knee badly enough for the school to ask her to leave the mountain. That was of course day one on the Mountain. It wasn't quite panic stations, but we had to figure out how we are going to get her home. Neither Anita nor myself were up to an all night marathon drive there and back and then be ready to face up to the world and work the next day. We struck a compromise. Anita drove to a new friend's in Bairnsdale, Susans', and stayed there the night. She arrived at around 9 pm, and left again around 6am and drove to Omeo, where one of the teachers had driven Katrina. What was the compromise I hear you ask? I would still go to work the following day and earn money to pay the bills and keep the wolf from the door, and a ten and a quarter hour day proved it was a worthwhile compromise.



The girls managed to arrive back in Warragul by midday, and Anita assures me she stuck to the speed limit, where they headed straight for the local doctors. Anita had an appointment already booked from weeks before, so Katrina took the appointment to get her knee examined properly. The Dr was of the opinion that there was nothing more serious than a sprain, but off for X-Rays just to be sure. Now we haven't had the final word on the X-Rays yet, but the radiologist said that as far as he was concerned, it looked pretty good.



Amy has really struggled this week and ended up at the doctor on Friday, where he pronounced that she had a viral infection. The good news is that she has nearly lost her voice, the bad news is she has nearly got it back again. The better news is that she is now almost over it. She has regained a little more energy, and hopefully can restart her catch up on her school work this week.



Robert is really excited about three things that are happening in the next 5-6 weeks. Firstly he is excited that fathers day is next weekend. He has told me that he will make me something? Then he is excited because he turns fourteen in about 3 weeks, and he will get presents. We have that well in hand, and in case he finds out how to read my blog in the next few weeks, I won't spoil his surprise here! (You'll have to wait too!) The third thing he is excited about is our trip away to see the cousins in Howlong. It should be a good few days away.



Anita has struggled this week, with having to drive to Omeo and back, she has also struggled with increased pain levels and lethargy due to her Fibro Myalgia. I read a recently published article that said Vitamin D may help with Chronic Widespread Pain, which is a symptom of F.M., so I have ordered some Vitamin D for her to try. She doesn't get much natural sunlight now that she is working 5 and a half days a week in doors. I hope this might help.



And lastly, me! I am plodding along, literally. I get on the treadmill every day and do 45 minutes walking to try to help nudge away those winter pounds. OK, I hear you, the winter pounds from 1999. But I am still trying. The weight is slow to move, even though I am exercising more and eating less. So the goal at the moment is to lose at least 10 kilo's by Christmas. Even if I have to spend the rest of my life hiding from them, I am going to lose them somehow.