Friday and I wake to find my partner up and around. I take my vitals and make myself breakfast to go with my morning meds before taking a shower. What is left to do is pack for the weekend and clear the kitchen. With the house sorted there is time for a pre travel sandwich and then its into the car and my partner drives us off to the forest of Dean to our youngest daughters house. I am pleased that I have survived the journey so well as a passenger. In the past my condition has made his difficult but today it went well, somehow being the driver has proved to be a useful distraction but being a passenger has been difficult, so day is a good day.

Its a good journey and we arrive safe and sound to warm drinks and biscuits. It is not long before we are unpacked and organised and my youngest daughter and my partner go off to collect her son from nursery. He returns looking sleepy but perks up with a new book to look at. After a bath and food the young ones goes to sleep and we the adults eat and settle down to watch a film, while I also keep an eye on a rugby match and then draft the blog. Its been really good to sit with all my family again and although this has been an “ordinary ” day its been a good one. During the evening I respond to an email that invited me to choose which clinic I want to go to have my Dupuytren’s contracture treated. The first two I chose had no appointments, the third is in Coventry, but all of them are saying treatment will be between 20 and 27 weeks. I knew this was going to be a long haul. I take my night meds and then get off to bed, smaller than at home so a challenge, hoping for a peaceful night. Tomorrow I am hoping the new power socket that I ordered from Amazon arrives so that I can replace the damaged one in the kitchen, it appears I like to remain useful.