11th September 2009

So it's all over, I am now Mrs Gleave! We had a brilliant day, the weather was great, I loved every minute of it and I love my husband (yikes!) with all my heart. Thank you for all your cards, messages and presents!!!

Heres a video of pictures I have got off facebook, the professional ones will be available on Friday however I shall be in Thailand! The song is what we had for our first dance (the band sung it though).

See you in 2 weeks...!!

Goodbye Miss Harrison

So this is probably going to be my last blog before the big day! I will try do one before we go on our Honeymoon to Thailand, maybe put some pictures on if I have any I can nick off people off facebook or something!

Today I had my roots done and a light trim and then I have been doing other various bits and bobs including ordering some Thai bahts and giving Alfie a bath. I did some of my waxing last night, got the most painful section over with first and shall do thee old legs this evening, how exciting......!

We have the wedding rehearsal in an hour which should be interesting and maybe it will actually sink in as people keep asking me if I am nervous and I don't feel very nervous, is this normal?!

Anyway, bye for now and when I return I should be Mrs Gleave.... unless Pete does a runner on me!!!!! In which case I have may have difficulty doing my blog from jail since I will be in there for GBH or murder!! haha!!

Housewife Gemma.....!

Had outpatients today, my last one as a single lady may I add!

My fev1 has increased abit to 46% which is promising and my weight is stable (as usual). Apparently my last bloods showed I had a slightly elevated crp level of 39, I love the way they tell me these things and then don't really elaborate on what the implications of this are. I go 'oh right' and they go onto the next thing. Today I saw a registrar who I have never met before but he seemed ok, although he went and got a nurse to watch whilst he listened to my chest. No other doctors do that so don't know what that was about...!

I keep having really vivid and nasty dreams again (mainly wedding related), I assumed this was to due with pre wedding nerves. However then I recalled this happened last time I was on voriconazole so I think it is definitely a side effect. I did ask the doctor about this and he looked at the side effects, there is hallucinations, anxiety, delusions but no mention of nightmares/sleep disturbance so guess it's just me then!

He has given me some ciprofloxin and steroids to take on the honeymoon just incase I start to go downhill or get really wheezy whilst away. I also got a prescription for some salt tablets and some letters to take with saying I am fit to fly with oxygen on long haul and without on short haul flights and another letter saying 'please let Gemma through with all her drugs because she needs them' (not the exact wording!). So I am all ready to go!

My next outpatients appointment isn't until the 23rd October which feels ages away! I'll need a port flush before then though so that will keep my withdrawl symptoms at bay. No seriously, if I don't go to the hospital for many weeks I feel abit panicky, it kind of makes me feel safe been checked up on every few weeks! It might sound stupid but going to hospital and knowing everything is ok is part of my routine in life, so a long break feels weird....!

Alfie and Murphy had a practise run at the dog sitters today, the lady is a performer and was practising singing Abba songs with her friend (who used to be in Emmerdale, trust Alfie to get to hang out with people off the tv!), apparently the dogs sat and watched them which I found quite funny. I took Alfie for walk beforehand to try tire him out abit, he's getting extremely good off his lead now.

This evening I made a fish pie from scratch, I skinned the fish, made the white sauce and the mash potato. It was very nice, quite proud of myself! Getting the hang of this housewife thing hahaha!

Wedding madness

Wow can't believe it's friday already! One week today I get married!

I've not really been upto much, just doing loads of small things. We went to see the photographer on Wednesday night to go through everything and I went to see the florist yesterday. It's really annoying because I have written a list of everything I need to do each day next week and there is loads to do but I can't really do any of it this week, so i'm sat around bored knowing I have a hetic week coming up and there is nothing I can do about it!

Heres my schedule for next week

Monday: Hospital appointment, take Alfie for practise run with the dogsitter

Tuesday and Wednesday: Do the favours, pack stayover bags, drop vases off at florists, get hair coloured and cut, wedding rehearsal at the church, do some DIY hair removal with wax (ouchies) ;o)

Thursday: Pick dress up, pick the cake up, go look at the flowers to check are ok, get eyebrows and nails done, drop Alfie off at the dog sitters, go to reception venue to put everything out

Friday: Get married!!!!!!

This weather is horrible, it's either raining or really windy so I haven't been able to take Alfie out so he is fed up too. It's supposed to pick up next week, fingers crossed!!
I've nearly finished watching all the True Blood seasons upto date, going to be lost once i've run out of them to watch! Chantelle is very nice and lending me the books, so that should keep me going for awhile! I also went to the library the other day and ordered some books to take on my honeymoon. I've bought some factor 30 and 50 suncream for our honeymoon (since now I have to stay on voriconazole until the day we set off so will burn easily for the first 5 days!!). So all ready to jet off to Thailand! Thats all for now! Bye!

Morngy Cow

Here's an interesting bit of information for you. On Saturday morning at 6.45am I was woken up by the sound of a cow mooing. Now I know what you are thinking, I live somewhere like Emmerdale because I live in Yorkshire and I am woken by cows and a cockerel yesterday too!

Well sorry but no I don't live in a tiny village where tractors are the main mode of transport and we all walk around in wellies or jodhpurs. Although saying this..... my dad did used to live on a farm and my mum did meet him because she kept her horses there.... and we did used to have a tractor in our garden..... oh no! I DO live somewhere like Emmerdale farm! It's a good job I am marrying someone from the other side of the Pennines, I know there is little chance I can be related to him! :o)

This blog has no real topic to as I have nothing interesting to inform you of, infact the cow incident is the most interesting thing!

Pete and I went to see Inglorious Basterds on Thursday, it was very good if you like those type of films (long, intense dialogue, weird sick humour and mexican standoffs). We went to a different cinema though and I was not impressed with the popcorn, think I will stick with cineworld!

Also watched Wuthering Heights on ITV over the bank holiday, seriously how sad is that story?! I still want to read the book though so going to try get a cheap copy off ebay, surely there must be an old battered copy I can get for about 50p!