Christmas gifts from Father pony

My little tree

I know it probably seems a little weird to some, somebody who can't ride asking for jodphurs for Christmas. But I figured that people who don't ski wear skiing jackets + people who don't dance wear ballet pumps so why shouldn't people who don't ride wear jodphurs

The ones I'm wearing are from the Townend range I've been a pony nut since I was about 11, subscribing to magazines, playing games, watching it on tv, going on forums. But I haven't had any chance to actually ride sadly. Its difficult when half the time your so weak + dizzy its a struggle to sit, propped up, in bed never mind on a horse

My dream pony would be a bay caspian. Caspians are small horses, suited to small adults with very graceful paces from the Caspian mountains

Suspension

Hi all, happy new year :). Below are photos of the Foggy friends atc (artist trading card) swap specimens I received before Christmas

The above six are my favourite. Stupidly I forgot to take any photos of my own atc. My Grandma got me a load of card making stuff for my birthday, which is why I entered it, to use some of my stuff up.  

A model areoplane my brother got for Christmas

I received a letter in the post the other day saying Dr Wight has mysteriously suspended his clinic for the forseeable future. Nobody has a clue why. Lots of people on Foggy friends are grumbling about it, many people rely on him a great deal. Hopefully the reason isn't too serious though so he'll be able to start practising again soon.

In the meantime we will just have to continue with the treatments alone. Its a shame from the tests point of view as I'll be unable to have those now. I probably won't even be able to find a Dr to retest my Mitochondria function to see if the Infra-red has improved it

However there are ME sufferers who take Naltrexone without a Drs supervision so at least I shall probably be able to carry on accessing it.

He has recommended Zolperdem Tartrate for my sleep problems which started again in early Nov and leave me feel really rubbish (shattered, sore eyes, painful fuzzy head). It is addictive though so I can only take it occasionally. My sleep has improved the last couple of weeks though. On Sunday night I tried cutting down to 3 Melatonin tablets rather than four but slept badly again, felt very yucky, so have gone back to the original doseage. Its a pity that sleeping pills are the only thing that makes a significant difference to my sleep. I've tried cutting down on rests in case I'm underdoing it, getting fresh air and practising yoga every day but nothing like that works.

I managed to have a lovely Christmas and New year despite everything. On New years day we went out to lunch at Ickwork house, which as you can guess from the pic was delightful;

    

Christmas cards

Only two days till Christmas! It doesn't feel like it somehow though we have got a bit of snow this year though not as much as the rest of the country :). Perhaps I started getting ready too early (late Oct)

This year I bought Christmas cards from ME research to support them;

The ones below are sold out as you can see but you can still buy their ordinary notecards, pic below



I made a lot as well

I expect this'll be my last blog post before Christmas so I'll wish you all a happy one :) x

My 19th birthday

I had planned a bonfire party for my 19th birthday, just my family and friend Kerry with her boyfriend. It didn't go quite according to plan as, partly due to Freddie dying, I didn't sleep well the night before. I spent all day beforehand in bed, trying to catch up on sleep, but still felt shattered 

It was lovely to see Kerry though and her new fi'ance is very cool. The fireworks were beautiful too