Ok so the summer holidays are going by way too fast. I've lost count but I think we're over halfway through now. We did spend the first few weeks taking it easy, lolling around at home, etc.I went to the ME clinic, which totally wiped me out, being, in a cruel ironic coincincidence, sitiated at the end of the universe, AKA Seacroft. Anyway I finally got the letter today- yes, I officially have CFS/ME. Fortunately the homeopath didn't have to go through such a long-winded proceedure of diagnosis, and in the meantime has treated me, and I am now so much better I am able to have a relatively normal existence, go on picnics and walks, stay up all day without having a nap, do housework and gardening, etc. This may be a temporary relief, but it's better that no relief at all.
Yesterday I finally achieved part of my mission for the holidays: to get the boys riding bikes. We live on such a steep hill that the thought of taking two non-bike-riders out at all has been too off-putting. Yesterday afternoon we went to the park with bikes, which we have left in town so we don't have to carry them up the hill again. I did enough running about holding Fergus's saddle while he cycled round the grass, saying, "Im gonna fall, I'm gonna fall!", and they got ice creams, and Freddie fell over and I had to take him back, where I promptly fell asleep for two hours.
Anyway they've just been doing their scrap-books. Fergus showed me his food collage, with the word FOOD spelled out in pictures of knives. They have done quite a bit of spontaneous activity like this, like the sort of thing they used to do when they were at home all the time. I sometimes dread it when they get something like this out, because I think we're going to be stuck inside all day. And then I have to remind myself of their short concentraton spans and that they usually will stop after half an hour or so.
So they have now gone outside- hurray! I said we would go out afetr lunch- we need rabbit food and a light bulb for the kitchen, and the fleamarket is on... best get on with it then...
