Virginia Cheeseman Blog

Thank you for all your best wishes and certainly your patience waiting for orders. Assuming nothing else happens I intend to post all orders out on Monday and Tuesday when my husband has a couple of days off and can help me. Just to re-cap for those reading the blog and not knowing what I am on about - last week my back seized up, I was in absolutely agony and stretchered off to hospital as I couldn't get up off the floor. Two days later I managed to severely damage one of my eyes. I think the two are linked though, I was given lots of drugs to ease my back and I assume they dehydrated me so when I took out my contact lenses one of them tore my eye. I am usually so fit and healthy that I am completely floored by all this and have seriously never experienced anything like it. At all times my thoughts have been "how on earth am I going to take care of my animals" and it has and continues to be extremely difficult. I don't want to write a book on this so I am trying to...

Nightmare! I have often said that my greatest fear is being laid low and unable to care for all my animals. Sadly it became a reality this week but thankfully nowhere near as bad as I imagined at first. I have been having problems for a few months with my back and only recently had an MRI scan, my follow up appointment with the physiotherapist is actually this afternoon. Since visiting a chiropractor last Friday I had been in constant pain but on Wednesday I got up and collapsed in agony on the kitchen floor. My hubby had to call an ambulance as I couldn't move for the pain. I was given a cocktail of drugs at the hospital and released later that day but I have now been ordered to rest and quite frankly with all the medication I don't feel up to doing much anyway. My back is still really stiff but the pain is very much reduced. I'm told it is 'just' muscle spasm and hopefully I will be fine next week. I intend to resume posting orders on Monday but I am clearly goi...

I'm back (again). The cruise was lovely, very relaxing and I do feel lucky to have had two summer holidays this year (thanks to winning the cruise in a competition). This week however has been a bit of a trial and each and every day I have yearned to be away again! The beginning of the month and the beginning of a new school term are always busy so it wasn't the best time to go away. I returned to a huge number of emails and have spent all week trying to catch up. I have posted off the orders received while I was away so I'm pleased with that but personal matters have made it difficult to concentrate. I can't go into details in this blog but among many other things my mother in-law has been ill all week, the car broke down, a dear friend is very ill in hospital. I haven't even managed the time to go to the gym this week, those who know me personally will realise how desperate that is! I just hope next week is a little calmer. The bugs faired really well while I...