Up The Farway Tree

Sniffle

I haven't been feeling too well of late. Last week I had a chest infection brewing, so in a sensible move I went up to the hospital last Monday to get checked out. I started some oral antibiotics and decided to take the week off work to give my self the best chance of a quick recovery. I was delighted to find by the end of the week I was feeling much better, and I was all ready to come back to work this week. Then I woke up on Sunday with a cold and have been sniffling and spluttering since. Although its 'only a cold', I was barely managing to make it into work when I was 100% well, so needless to say I have had to call in sick this week as well. I am hoping that the fact I am already on oral antibiotics will prevent it developing into a chest infection, but I will just have to wait and see. Fingers crossed.

On another medical note, Seb's eyes are much better. He had to wear his little cone for a whole week. In fact by the end of the week, he seemed to quite like it and had managed to avoid becoming wedged in small spaces and the likes. He also became very good at getting his eye drops in, as long as cheese was on offer as a reward. I found that if I placed him in a corner, he couldn't back off and would tip his head back and squeeze his eyes tightly shut. I just had to wait until he peeked one eye open to see if I was still there, and quickly put the drop in. Poor Seb.

I've been trying to do a bit of painting again, as an alternative to watching day time TV. The only downside is that its actually quite tiring, and I also get myself quite worked up when its not turning out how I planned. I would like to take some art classes after my transplant, so I can actually learn how to paint properly and pick up some techniques. At the moment I completely make it up as I go along, I never plan what I'm going to do, and I often know that something isn't quite right with the painting, but I'm not sure what. To make matters worse, I'm also not that good at accepting criticism from others despite the fact I am highly critical of myself. I think I just need to learn to enjoy painting, accept it is a learning curve, something I can work on and improve, and most of all, listen to my mum when she says 'don't take yourself so seriously'.





My first attempt at a coastal type scene.