Thanks all for your support with my last couple of posts. I keep meaning to pop in and update a bit better.
Brief update is I came down with a nasty fluey bug with a raised but not high temp, a sore throat and headaches on 1st April, which has left me completely wiped whilst keeping up with my workload which seems very busy. I didn't cycle for over 3 weeks and have slowly built my riding up in the last 2 weeks starting at 9 miles which compared to a normal 50 plus hilly miles is fairly pathetic. I was very tight chested on my first rides although hadn't noticed any issues whilst ill.
As someone in dau's flat thinks they had 'it' before she left, and she appeared to have some of the symptoms, and son had some of the symptoms at the same time as me, we think the 3 of us have had it, OH doesn't seem to have had it.
Anyhoo - I'm popping in just now to say that my 17 year old dog sadly passed away today, whilst we took her to the vets as she had had a massive downturn, he said she had heart failure and wouldn't have lasted 12 hours. We have been struggling for over a year with regular wee and poo accidents, and in the last week or so she had leakage as well. OH and I walked her yesterday morning as we weren't sure if she was up to any more walks and I said I wanted to give her one last walk, which she managed.
Needless to say everyone in the house is broken hearted, son in particular, we got her as a rescue when she was 12 months and son was born just over a year later so a massive part of his life.
I feel a bit surrounded by death, my neighbour has been given 2 to 3 weeks, she has terminal bowel cancer, and 3 colleagues have lost their fathers (one who was immobile to covid, one to old age, and one aged 62 to bowel cancer) since I last posted.
On the plus side son's veg patch is coming on well, and we should get a lot of potatos