Catch up

Finally the shippers got back to me and have to rearrange our shipment. It turns out that it definitely can't get there before us and so needs to either be sent on a slower ship or sent a month later - we should find out soon. I hope that they don't try and charge us extra for storage, we stupidly didn't negotiate on the quote in the beginning and could have saved ourselves hundreds.

Yesterday I ventured back to the docs, it really does go against the grain being off sick but, when I know I'm going back to work, I can't sleep, feel sick, cry loads and snap at everyone. The doc was great, as I only have 5 weeks left to work she said it wasn't worth going through all the pain so signed me off for 6 weeks to be on the safe side. I handed the note in Monday and am still waiting for someone to contact me. No one there obviously really cares.

Today was a bit non stop. I had to take my eldest to the dentist as her temporary filling had come out whilst she was chewing gum. My dentist is great, he talks about Oz all the time as he spent a year there and loved it. I have pretty bad teeth so asked if I could have a copy of my file he printed it off, complete with prints of the x rays all for no charge, bless him. I will miss him that's for sure, finding a good dentist is no mean feat.

Next I went to the school to help out at lunchtime playtime. A lot of the problems my kids have at school occur at lunchtime because they don't have enough helpers so I thought I'd do my bit. Kids were chuffed and proud which was great to see.

Tonight I had an appointment with a surgeon re having my bust reduced. It's something I've wanted for ages and have finally been given a date - 3rd July ! Hubbys not happy, it's quite a risky op and so close to going to Oz, I just have to hope that I recover without incident. It's going to be painful and tough but so needed. My ever increasing size is causing more and more problems every day. I wish it had been sooner but beggars can't be chosers and at least it'll be done before Oz and whilst I'm off work. Now I have 13 days to panic that I'm going to die !

Still, at least it'll stop the panic thoughts that I'm moving my family to Beirut on a bad day and that my husband is going to turn into an alcoholic wife beater. Sometimes too much information is a bad thing  !

Note to self - stop reading Expats :O)

01:02 - Wed 21 June 2006