Road to recovery

When do you know that your recovery is well and truly complete? Herbie is probably 95% back to the old Herbie, pre meningitis. I watched with a warm heart as he played with Rufus today, babbling away and then the two of them singing and doing the actions to Wind the bobbin up!

I sleep well at night even though he is now back in his cot in his own room. We need to get him back to being put up to bed awake, something he was very good at before he was ill.

Monday we have his first consultant appointment at the JR hospital. I have no idea what to expect but as it's my birthday that day I hope that the appointment will be positive! Then on Wednesday it's back to work for me!

My sister and 2 of my sisters in law are running a 10K run in London to raise money for the meningitis trust and my twins are holding a cake sale to raise money for the PHDU at the JR.

So much of our day to day lives at the moment still revolves around what happened and I am retelling the story at least 3 or 4 times a day!!

Life is returning to normal but not an hour goes past without a reminder of what happened...

Days like these

A short piece today. Another fabby day with just my boys (all 3!). Girls at school then to Grandma's for tea! The weather makes life so much more enjoyable. Herbie went on the swings for the first time since being unwell and he giggled so much. It was great. The biggest excitement though was when I caught him standing holding a toy, and not holding on or leaning against anything...he seemed oblivious to my elation! We are getting closer to walking...I just know it. 4 days until World Meningitis Day. I can't believe that this time last year, in fact this time 6 weeks ago, I wouldn't have known it existed.