Up The Farway Tree

Swap Shop

The swap shop was not as busy as we had hoped for but was still a successful night :-)  We had lots of rails set up and organised the clothes by size - lots of swapping was done and I think everyone came away with a goody or two!  

 Organising clothes..

Browsing..

Model: Victoria.  Fur coat: Model's own.

 Me wearing as many random things as possible..

Kirsty's friend was selling her artwork and donating 15% profits!  This is her fantastic website HEGER .   I got a fab wee t-shirt :-)

Great raffle prize - over £200 of fab MAC products :-)  My lovely cousin Sarah won the prize - ideal, since she is getting married in June.  She definitely earned it by working hard setting up rails, taking them down, hanging up clothes, carrying stuff to and from car....love you!

We are working on securing a ball venue for this year!!  We have decided to host this years ball in aid of the local CF unit, where all three of us spent way too much time over the years!  We have a couple of feasible options just now and will be firming up plans asap (by next week).  Then the ticket selling and harassment will begin!!

I have had a viral/cold thing all week so work seemed harder than usual!  The immunosuppression changes the response to infection and I have found that I seem to get milder symptoms but really dragged out over a longer period.  So I started with a mild temperature, then have a sore throat for couple days, then a runny nose, then blocked nose and now bit of dry cough.....I am not sure whether it is better to just get everything for 48hrs like a normal person, or one at a time over a week of two haha.   At least I haven't missed work, so guess that's one advantage.

I was at a conference all yesterday - about Bipolar 1 disorder.  It was a full day of talks and associated with the launch of a new drug.  They had two Bipolar sufferers speaking about their experiences of inpatient and community care in relation to their illness.   I thought this was the best part of the day and interesting to get insight into experiences - especially when articulated as well as it was.  It makes me realise the CF/transplant patients who are asked to speak at such events to medical staff are probably making more of a difference than they might think.

On a lighter note - I am off to Stobo Castle with mum on Sunday for some pampering :-)  It's a hard life.  We will be forced to lie about in fluffy dressing gowns, eat copious amounts of food, endure a facial and back massage and generally relax.  Torture ;-)