Category: General ramblings

Hello guys

Thanks so much for all the lovely messages. First of all, you are all right- I must not get back to things too early, until I am sure I am well. One week of rest will do more good than getting back too early. If you want to skip the whole “how my illness is doing” then skip down to the next bit! I know I was tired last week, but not really bad, and had a cold, but I obviously got a bit run down as after the upset stomach passed, the pains carried on. Anyway I went to the doctors today in the end and she confirmed that I also have a urinary tract infection (I had to wee in a cup which I do not think I have ever had to do before- awful! And then more awful as it was right on the desk while she was talking to me and all I could think was “that’s my wee in the cup on your desk”) and was given antibiotics. She did say she was pretty sure it wasn’t appenticitus (now I am awful at the doctors I get so nervous and panicky about things like that- I have to have a blood pressure monitor at home as it is always sky high when I go there) but of course that made me worry even more. Although today I am feeling better, not 100% but getting there. I did not go on a run today, and long days at work tomorrow and Thursday mean the first time I can exercise again will be Friday. So I am going to see how I feel, and maybe just have a walk on Friday and save my energy for Saturday. It will mean a week off but hopefully my legs will be energised. And I do not want to pick up anything else!

Now onto the exciting things!

I got some parcels in the post to cheer me up;

Some cosy tea to try out 🙂 I saw this ages ago in the vegetarian living magazine, and kept an eye out (and when I searched on the net I got loads of websites for tea cosy’s!)

And..

a selection of raw chocolate and raw chocolate covered goodies.

Although it is a little bit like mental torture as tea and chocolate are two of my favourite things (Oprah style) but I have not been eating normally these last few days- I have only been wanting quite plain or savoury things. I tried a cup of tea yesterday, only to have more pain, and then I read on the internet that the caffiene can irritate so is not a good idea, and that water is best. Anyhoo, I am rather excited to start trying them out, although I think I will wait until I am 100% otherwise I will associate them with being ill. I used to love leek and potato soup, and then I had it once when I was feeling ill, and now whenever I think about it, it reminds me of being ill.

Now I spent a lot of time today reading blogs, and could not help but notice a valentines theme on so many. I have never celebrated it- it has always seemed a bit cheesy to me, and me and Andy have always preferred to celebrate on our anniversary, birthdays and so on. So we just had a normal evening planned. So many of my friends were posting on facebook about how upset they were that their partner did not get them flowers or whatever, and I much prefer it that we do nice things for each other all year round, when we have had a hard week or something like that.

Anyway, I am off to find my 7th pint of water or something silly like that- later dudes 🙂

That is what I have been doing with myself since Saturday! My thought process initially was that I would rest on sunday, be better, and then add a couple of miles to my monday run. But yesterday my pains were worse (I realised that as I had a headache on saturday I took some painkillers which I think made the stomach pain go away briefly). I ended up ringing NHS direct last night, as the upset stomach had gone but the pains were bad, and Andy getting very worried. Anyway, turns out I also managed to get a urine infection (sorry for too much info!)- not a surprise as I had hardly had anything to drink on sunday, and nothing “watery” to eat (one piece of toast in the evening), and was probably dehydrated from saturday, so my mission to drink loads has begun. I managed to sleep better than on saturday night- was up every couple of hours or so, but am not at work today. The pain is lessening now, so I am hoping to be back to normal later on. But of course the monday run is now out the window. So now I am telling myself that if I go to work tomorrow I will have a run in the evening instead of going to aerobics- saves money and running is my main focus at the moment.

I am not sure what I am going to do with myself today! Daytime TV is not entertaining me!  I did start another review of the vegan cookie book- look here if you fancy it.

Thanks yet again for all the lovely comments- I have no doubt I will be back to normal very very soon!

Hopefully

Today was going to be part 2 of operation use up the bananas. But my stomach got worse in the night, and today I have been in more pain- grrrr. I hope this bug works it way out my system soon as I am getting annoyed with it. Thanks for all the lovely messages 🙂 I looked on NHS direct and the advice now is to eat things (it always used to be to not eat anything for 24 hours) but all I have managed so far today is a small bowl of plain porridge and some ginger oat cakes. Not the best. I was also supposed to be making calzone for dinner, but now poor Andy is using the veggies to make a pasta dinner for himself.

Anyway, onto the weekly review. It started off ok!

Monday’s 6 mile run was steady and fine.

Tuesday’s aerobics was good, I tried to take it a little easier than usual.

Wednesday was an enforced rest day due to long work hours.

Thursday was body pump and I managed to keep the same weights as last week

Friday was a 3 mile run which I took as an easy run and was fine.

Saturday was a disaster! Under 4 miles instead of the planned 10. But then being ill has that effect!

All in all, I am looking onwards to next week and trying to forget about the last run!

Evening all

Today started with some blueberry porridge- how exciting!

I put them in last night, and then when you cook it some of them pop! Super tasty also!

I managed to get through my first busy day at work (hurrah!) and then managed to fit in a blueberry oat bar before aerobics. Eating this while marking work was not the easiest thing to do! Crumbs everywhere!

(By the way I did only eat one, but look at the massive blueberry on the last one in the pack! Impressive!)

Then it was off to aerobics. I tried to take it a little easy as I was feeling tired. Aerobics can be super high impact, I suppose like interval training as you might do half a minute of high intensity stuff, then half a minute of something a bit easier, for the middle half an hour of the class. So I tried to make my movements a little smaller as I was tired. I still enjoyed it, which is the main thing 🙂

Now I am finishing a bit more work (and distracting myself from that by reading blogs oops) and then I will put my feet up. I do actually have some meridian blueberry fruit spread, so I suppose I could round the day off with something else blueberry flavoured- that has got me thinking…..

What’s your fave way to eat a blueberry? Or multiple blueberries as they are very small!

Night