Up The Farway Tree

It seems to have been another busy few weeks!

Last weekend I was delighted to be Godmother at Caoimhe's Christening.  Caoimhe (pronounced Keeva) is my friend Lauren's wee baby - completely adorable, like her big sister Orla.  It was a lovely day and we had some nice sunshine for a change.  Caoimhe didn't wake up during the entire service, other than opening her eyes briefly when the Baptismal water was poured over her head, then going promptly back to sleep!   I wish I was as chilled as that :-)

During the week I had taken an annual leave day to help out at a schools symposium, being organised by NHSBT.   6th year pupils from across Scotland who were interested in studying medicine, or related health care subjects, had been invited.  There were 7 stations for them to work through - from meeting transplant surgeons,  donor coordinator nurses, labs staff to our station, which was myself and a wonderful lady whose 3 year old son had donated his organs and saved 5 lives on his death.   We had 7 groups for 30 minutes each, so it was quite hard going - talking about both our stories with each group.   I think it was a powerful message though, and allowed the students to see the real life side of organ donation and of medicine in general.

Friday I had a good catch up with Claire....whose wedding is only a week away now!  Then in the evening myself and Andrew were at the Alabama 3 concert in Glasgow.  Most people have no idea who I am talking about but if you have seen the TV show The Sopranos - they did the theme tune for that.  They describe their music as acid house country rock and I guess that pretty much covers it!  There was a really varied crowd of all ages so it was a really eclectic mix.  We really enjoyed it and also had caught up with our friends Clare and Al, who were also going along. 

Yesterday was not so much fun, as I ended up at A+E getting my foot xrayed!  It started on Tuesday with a really acute sharp pain that came on when I was walking.  I had been limping for the rest of the week and it seemed to be getting worse as opposed to better.  Although standing at a concert didn't exactly help!  Some of you might remember that a similar thing happened shortly after my transplant and it turned out to be a stress fracture (because I have osteoporosis).  Anyway the xray didn't show any obvious fracture so it is likely to be a soft tissue injury and just needs a bit of rest.  I am not very good at rest!  I have however been good today and hopefully it will clear up soon - especially before Claire's wedding next week so I can wear nice shoes for dancing!!!

I have now uploaded some other pictures from the halloween party, which shows of the decorations more.   You can check these out HERE.

Now I am off to start thinking about Christmas.  Count down will be starting in couple of weeks....