Sunday, 13 July 2008

Jolly good weekend!

Well I have had quite a good weekend! I'm definetly feeling alot better, if this is what not working does to me then i'm up for it! I'm not sure about going to university anymore as I applied for a maintenance grant and they say I cannot be classed as independent from my parents as im not over 25, dont have a child, am not married and have not been independent for 3 years as when i was at uni this can not be classed as me being independent. This means I only qualify for 75% of the total grant I could get as my parents will not disclose how much they earn and even if thet did it would not help me as they are on decent wages! Therefore i'm annoyed as I don't think I can afford it and can't work whilst i'm at univeristy as i'll get ill again! I dont see why I should be expected to still rely on my parents when im 23!


Saturday night Pete and I went out for chinese, we had three courses and I was so full and also quite drunk! Its the first time i've had a drink since before my iv's and after about 1 glass of wine I was feeling rather tipsy! I wore my new dress I got from the sale in Topshop, I must say I think I look rather good in it! We went to my parents to pick Alfie up as we left him with his buddy Murphy whilst we went out for tea as Alfie was very miserable, he was shaking and wouldn't eat his treats which is very unusual for him! After 2 hours with Murphy he was alot happier! We ended up staying at my parents for a few drinks and I ended up 'mashed' as my brother calls it. I then subjected Pete to listening to all my favourite songs when we got back home and I was dancing around and basically acting like a drunk crazy woman. At least he got to use his camcorder to get some embarrassing videos of me! Even though I was drunk I still did my nebuliser, which is pretty impressive. Although the stupid thing is broken. It won't work unless its in the charger even though I charged it up all yesterday, yesterday morning it took 20 mins to go through and then last night it only took 5 minutes, it keeps leaking stuff everywhere and an error code of 11 keeps coming up and I have to reset it. I'll have to call the company on monday.

I wokeup alot during in the night and at one point had a coughing fit, Pete didn't even wake up, thats how used he is to it! I had a dehydration sachet to stop me getting headache in the morning and it worked!!


Today we took Alfie and Murphy for a walk as the wheather is lovely! We then went to the pub for lunch and sat outside with the dogs, here is Pete with his new cool shades on that he got off his parents for his birthday

Here is a picture of the doggies! I'm trying to take them for more walks as its good exercise for me and will hopefully improve my health if I get more exercise. I would like to start swimming although I get out of breath after like 2 seconds when i'm swimming. When we went to Gambia it was horrible, I took a floaty thing around with me to keep me afloat for when I got out of breath.

We then went shopping as Pete wanted to get some clothes with his vouchers that he got for his birthday, it was nice driving there with the roof down, the car is finally reaching its full potential!


I'm now making a sunday roast, making my own roast potatoes, cooking a chicken (free range may I add), veg, stuffing the whole lot! i'm getting qute a pro at these sunday roasts.





2 comments:

Lizzie Swims said...

Ug! That is ridiculous that you have to depend on your parents at 23?! Have you tried looking into the joesph levy trust - they help people study who have CF - not sure how much they give but it might worth a try - they could make up the extra 25% perhaps? Great blog by the way
Lizzie83 xxxx

Chantelle said...

glad you had a nice day out and a gr8 night drinking by the sounds of it! i cant drink yet as still on i.v's for another week....and still in hospital lol dont think they would like me bringing in a bottle off bubbly in (in to fizzy wine after having it in limo to london)
x