January 3rd

Happy New Year!! Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and enjoyed time with family & friends.

My MRI and CT scans have been booked for the 13th January but I contacted the hospital today to see if we could come back from Cork early to arrange to have the scans sooner - we just don't want to have this hanging over us for too long. I'm so amazed with the way they work around things and they have managed to get both of the scans booked for this Thursday (5th January) so we've changed our ferry ticket and we're heading back to the UK tomorrow morning.

I was planning to work in Cork all this week but they have been so good in allowing me to take the time off for this. My back pain seems to be getting worse over the last couple of weeks, especially over Christmas, and worst at night or when I'm sitting in one place for long periods.