The Recovery Bucket List: Announcement, and an update!

The Recovery Bucket List

In June 2012, I spent 2 weeks in hospital with a relatively unusual kidney condition called Minimal Change Disease (a form of Nephrotic Syndrome). It wasn't pleasant to say the least, I had retained 18kg of excess fluid in my body, had very little energy and no interest in food. I spent much of my time in hospital lying in bed doing very little, just being a bloated blob of excess fluid.

One night at about midnight, I was feeling a bit down. I was restless from the steroids I was on to fix my kidneys, there was a crazy lady yelling and screaming on the ward, and I was feeling really homesick - I'd been transferred from my local hospital in country Victoria to one of the largest in Melbourne for more specialist care I just couldn't get at home. Sleep wasn't an option despite my lethargy, and it was wearing me down mentally.

Knowing that I would eventually go into remission and be able to go back to my normal life, I made a list right there and then. A Bucket List, of all the things I would do when I'm well again and back to my "normal self". Somehow I managed to keep my optimism up for about 99% of the time I was sick, and kept looking to the future and thinking of more things I could do.

This blog is my journal of completing my Recovery Bucket List.

Friday, 27 July 2012

Announcement, and an update!

I. Have. Been. So. Slack!!! The list has been the furthest thing from my mind lately... Because I gots me a new fiancé! Yes, Lachie proposed to me on Sunday afternoon, and I said yes without hesitation! So we've been so caught up in that this week... but now I can add "organise a kick-arse wedding" to my list, even though I'll probably have a couple of years to tick it off.

Speaking of ticking things off, today has been a double - I got my haircut today - no photo yet as I'm currently having a coffee in the middle of Shepp - but I did go for a real change. And this arvo I'm going shopping for our remission (/engagement) dinner that I'm cooking tonight. So I swear I'm making progress! I'll take lots of photos of the meal and my hair and hopefully post later, although we've got a busy weekend ahead! Got lots of plans of socialising, and catching up with my parents to "introduce" my new fiancé - even though they already know him well and adore him!!!

The Recovery Bucket List