Back again!

So I'm back after a fairly long time away; at least from this blog.

Over the past year I've come to really enjoy the quick, simple and highly visual Instagram and the punchiness of Twitter; something that I have enjoyed since it first became popular a few years ago.

So you can see all the gaps are actually filled elsewhere!

So I feel to get going again, a quick summary of where I'm at may be a good start!

So, I'm now 28, I'm still in the same job I was in; just at a different place.
At work I'm also fully qualified which is a nice feeling.

I also undertook an undergrad degree in my spare time (as you do) and am graduating in September with a BA(Hons) in Organisational Capability Development! Very happy about this!

I also became a First Responder with LIVES and am enjoying being the Treasurer for m

I'm still very happily married and enjoying not being parents (just yet!) but have had the joy of becoming an Aunty for the first time this year to a beautiful niece and am shortly about to become an Aunty again to another niece!

I'm preparing at the moment to go away "Down South" for 4 months later in the year; a time I plan to get rippppped!

I've spent the past few months not running or lifting heavy weights due to a suspected back injury or post-viral complications. The first has been ruled out with head and full spine and neck MRIs. However; there still could be some neurological damage causing me the horrendous sciatica and neuralgia in my right hand side. In fact, this Wednesday I'm seeing my physiotherapist about the MRI results and whether I can start running/lifting again; I'm yet to here back from the neurologist.

So, I haven't spent the last few months being lazy; instead I've used the cross trainer for my "big" cardio and done LOTS of walking! I average around 25000 steps a day most days every week! Sometimes I average 30000 a day over a week!

That brings me on to my next point; I have become even more of a fitness and health data addict. I started off with an app on my phone, then I got a Jawbone UP24 (I went through several of these- fragile but great battery life!) and then I moved on to the Fitbit ChargeHR which I've had a little over the year. It's great to see that even when I was at my peak fitness just over a year ago hitting a 21'21" 5Km PB; my RHR was still relatively high compared to what it is now. (I have several theories about this which includes looking at my training load from my workouts, specifically and accurately tracked using myPolar RCX3)

I've also started to do Kayla Itsines "Sweat with Kayla", albeit I've been fairly restricted til now (well; I say now; I'm expecting the good news on Wednesday!)  and had to modify the workouts and not do all of them. They are hard! I mean they look like nothing on the screen and then you start doing the resistance circuits and they are NAILS!

I'm looking forward to getting back to my other phys activities, aside running, things like Les Mills Body Combat and even to start new classes such as GRIT!

Aside from fitness, I've learned a lot since I've been gone about keeping bunnies. I thought I knew a lot back then but I have amassed so much experience now. Rabbits; they are hard and expensive to keep. But they are 100% worth it! Thank God for insurance! With one of the bunny's vet's bills currently standing at £1200, you need to make sure you insure your pets!

Matilda, aka Miffy, has been struggling with sore hocks over the past 18 months or so. We seem to be pretty much there with it, but she hasn't got it for the usual reasons which made it quite bizarre. We managed to get one of her feet to completely heal, and the other one is almost there! She's responding well, under the care of Sarah Pellet from Animates, to laser therapy and antibiotic treatment. She's currently on a dose of 1ml metronidazole and 0.6ml of metacam (meloxidyl) twice a day and (I can't remember how much; it says on the bottle!) of salbocyl once a day.

Henry, my precious little Holland lop has been fighting some kind of infection for several months and we haven't really gotten to the bottom of it ... so he's now under specialist care with Sarah too.

Luckily, he survived the minor procedure to do some investigative work this Friday just gone. He's been so weak looking and ill and lost about 300g of weight that I didn't think he'd survive the anesthetic, but I believe it's thanks to Sarah, he's doing OK now and came round really pretty well from it! We're currently waiting on some test results/cultures back to see what we're dealing with but it's unlikely he can be cures; however, we possibly can manage whatever it is. As Henry is already 6 and she says they can normally manage it so he has a good quality of life for a few more years, I think I can cope with that! Just so long as he's happy and pain free. We suspect he has e.cuniculi and perhaps either previous treatment has weakened his immune system and made him more vulnerable to a bacterial infection (hence the current nasal discharge and damaged and necrotic turbinates, although these have been all cleaned up now under anesthetic); or the e.cuniculi weakened him OR he was already vulnerable to all these infections which is why he is poorly and his wife bun (Annie) isn't. However, he is happy in the garden as I write on Tramadol, Septrin, Baytril and Meloxidyl(metacam). In fact, he'd probably be just about OK without the painkillers but because of the procedure he had on Friday, we're keeping him on them and to help bring down the inflammation; he already has a much drier nose!


Anyway; basically I haven't changed aside I think I'm a bit more confident. I enjoy all the things I used to; the gym/exercise, food, cooking, traveling, being crafty, bunnies, family and my job in general!

I'm just a bit older, wiser, SLIGHTLY more relaxed but still full of vitality and life!