As I sit here typing this post I am trying to pass the few hours until daughter and I leave for our cruise – the menfolk are staying here (their break together is in September). It’s going to be fun and probably, for me, a good work out.
Daughter has a chronic pain condition which means that she has mild aches constantly that can flare into eye-watering intensity for no good reason. There’s no warning when it’s going to happen. When it does happen it leaves her shuffling round the place like a little old lady who has lost her zimmer frame. So, I’ve hired a wheelchair for the week. We may not need it (fingers crossed) but we’re taking one so that she can get out an about during our port visits if it’s not such a good day painwise. It’s a manual wheelchair and she’s not the best ‘driver’, hence why my muscles will be getting plenty of strength training.
The weather is forecast to be pleasantly warm. We’re hoping that warmth will help with her pain, as cold makes her a lot worse. Imagine getting the most awful pains in your hands just by taking a cold can of pop out of the fridge. Not fun.
I am going to have to be extra-vigilant on the food front. It is so easy, as I know from previous experience, to stuff yourself on the delicious 5 course meals. There is also a buffet, which will be fine IF I stick to the salad end of things. If I stray to the creamy, chocolatey pudding end I’m doomed!
So, there’ll be no weigh-in post tomorrow, nor any newsy posts during the week. The boat does have internet access – by the minute – but I’m quite likely to lose myself online for an hour or so. Instead I’ll go ‘cold turkey’ till I get home.
Be good, and I’ll ‘see’ you all next week.