How are you all doing?
@EachandEveryone OH always puzzles me... The idea that anyone could understand how you're feeling well enough to make a plan is just... odd. It should be self directed, with a legal right to determine a return to work flexibly for X period of time. My work just introduced yet another new parental leave benefit: when you return to work after mat/ pat leave, you only work 50% of your hours for the first 30 days, on full pay. I wish they offered the same to people returning after long term illness! (This makes me think I need to actually fire off an email to HR to complain that they have amazing parental benefits and nothing for people like me....)
@lucysmam You made me laugh too! However, I'm now looking at a list of appointments that I need to chase up, and I'm breaking out in cold sweat. Example: I know I have some sort of follow-up at a Kings College Hospital on 29 January. I've asked them to confirm what this is, and the time, 3 times now. Each time, it's "the letter should come through shortly" as an answer. That doesn't help. Depending on timing etc DH might need to take the day off to take me, and he can't just go that at zero notice!
My update: I'm feeling a bit more human. Planning holidays because the emptiness of my 2024 wall planner is getting to me. Current plan: a week on Majorca before Easter, and a couple of weeks on Northern Italy (Lake Garda & South Tyrol) in July. I also want to rent a Gîte in Normandy and stay there with my best friends and kids sometime in May, but just realised that one friend hasn't got passports for their kids, and prob can't afford to get them done... I need a UK based plan B.
Also: I left the house yesterday. Major news. Drove to the shops, picked up some stuff, came home. Almost felt normal!