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Archive for December, 2008
James is 4
Dec 18th
Can you believe it. Must be getting old because James was 4 years old not so very long ago. It only seems like yesterday that I was asleep in the hospital after a traumatic (hope Emma doesn’t read this!) labour. Time seems to fly by, and I sometimes worry that I’m missing chances to see him growing up. I suppose when I think about it we do OK, after all we’ve had several trips to see trains and planes and all the things that dad secretly likes.
It was great to celebrate with him, especially as I just made it out of hospital in time.
James (4) prepares to eat birthday cake
Next, to Christmas, where James has decided that Father Christmas plays a large role in proceedings. I’m hoping for a non crazy family Christmas this year with a little time and space to enjoy each others company, but I fear it’s not the way of today!
Christmas Pack Up
Dec 18th
Well it’s that time of year again when the home appliances stop working and you shell out you’re hard earned cash on new ones. The casualty this year, the washing machine. Well, it’s done about 9 years of service, which in this day and age is’nt all that bad but it’s now given up.
A new Bosch machine at around £300 is on it’s way and nowadays they even take you old machine away and recycle it for you. I hope that the new machine gives even more service than the old one!
Minor technical changes
Dec 15th
After a number of years experimenting with gallery software and wordpress, I’ve decided that I never maintain all the other bits of my site, so I’m moving my blog to the main directory of my website. I’ll leave the blog directory there with a redirect, but from now on http://www.chrisdixon.net/ will direct you straight to this blog.
Quick update and thanks..
Dec 8th
Many of you will know that I’ve spent 10 days in hospital with a plural infusion (mank in between bits of my lungs). This normally effects old people, but apparently I got pneumonia with complications and this caused all the mank. It usually only takes a couple of days to drain off all the mank, but in my case it was a bit blamonge like and did’nt want to come out which resulted in chest drains, ultrasounds, CT scans (very cool) and lots of other poking and messing about.
Above all else it was boring, but there were plenty of people who were actually much worse than I was (evidenced by two deaths on the ward whilst I was there).
I’m so grateful to all the people that prayed for me, visited me and sent cards and messages. I don’t feel as though I don’t deserve such wonderful friends so thank you so much.
I’m back at home now and I still get out of breath at the smallest exercise and my right lung is still not right, but I’m slowly getting stronger and I’m sure that I’ll make a full recovery.
Hopefully I’ll find some time to do some more blogging soon, when I’m feeling a little fitter.
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