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Changes

It seems to be 'all change' in my house at the moment. When my children forst went to University it took a few months to get used to them not being around as much as hey used to be. My daughter is doing four months of work experience at the end of her second year locally so is back staying with us. Her whippet Fig is also back wit his pack causing great excitement for our other two dogs. My daughter split with her boyfriend of nearly three years a few weeks ago as she felt they had I suppose 'grown apart.' She had obviously been thinking about it for a while but I found it strange to cope with and wasn't expecting that. Hr had been a large part of our lives and had lived with us for a year. He still had an old car sitting in our driveway which my husband had been helping him fix up, and he keeps promising to get towed away but it's still there almost two years later from when it came.

MY son has started going out with someone he met at university and as I write he is in Portugal on holiday with her. She go him the holiday as a birthdday present so you can imagine when it was her birthday a week ago he wasn't sure what present to get her. He and I face-timed a lot tto discuss it with him eventually choosing some nice sunglasss. It was interesting to discuss it with him eventually choosing some nice sunglasses. It was interesting to discuss possible purchases of make up or toiletries wih him in shops, quite a shift from the video game playing son of the past who used to play online for hours at a time, shut away in his room. We used to shout up at weekends to say dinner was ready but that often was the only communication we seemed to have with him for days on end. I am enjoying that he still likes to chat with me and ask advice and we have a family text group and a family snapchat group so we keep in touch pretty much daily.  

I finally decided to go to see the doctor after about 18 months of not sleeping due to, I presume, menopause symptoms. I have coped with feeling rough and kind of got used to it, but after chatting with friends recently I wondered if I really should have to just ‘grin and bear it’. A friend mentioned a fantastic expert and after watching her videos online I made the call to my practice. I saw a lovely locum doctor who listened to me and talked through the options. I always remember my Dad’s advice when I was young. “Accept what you can’t change and try not to worry about it, but be prepared to change what you can”. Thanks Dad!