more immediate family

Some progress made on blogging about our recent family history-focussed trip—see below—more to follow tomorrow, hopefully.

In terms of more immediate family, however, I'm pleased to report that my Mum had already been discharged from that hospital by the time I was catching up with the news. While she has to have further tests, it seems this may be an acute exacerbation of something like osteoarthritis, rather than some scary-sounding infection descriptions of which have been include phrases like “destroying the joint in 24 hours” or similar. (Just to emphasise for clarity, that's not what she's got!) Not good to hear there could be ongoing problems, but it is progress that things are being identified and can be appropriately managed. Her mobility remains limited at the moment—she wasn't up to attending church this morning, unusual for her. So if you're so inclined, prayers are always appreciated.

Bronwyn's parents David and Jenny returned to us this evening from 9 days travelling in Europe, now able to talk about countries we've never seen... Nice to have them back again. David's leg continues to give similar trouble and he already had an appointment to see a osteopath tomorrow morning, which he'll certainly be keeping. With Bronwyn's recent illness too, seems like the family is consuming our share of health resources internationally!

On that note, it is perhaps telling that the information written so far about our trip away hasn't even mentioned Bronwyn's health! That's because she's much more close to everything-back-to-normal. She woke most mornings with a headache “behind the eyes” which disappeared on rising. (Almost the opposite of what was happening previously!) The blocking of her ears that was occurring when she was upright has faded and now essentially disappeared. She still doesn't feel she has full energy or fitness, and we modified plans a little, not trying to go hiking on Dartmoor for instance. However, we had a pretty much normal holiday where her recent illness was mostly a non-issue. Most excellent. (Praise God.)

Tomorrow I return for a gruelling working... er, day, before we head off on our next holiday. Yes, Tuesday we fly out with David and Jenny to Scotland! Originally there was going to be just over a week between the two trips, but David and Jenny's Europe trip had to move, meaning so did we. It worked out much better in any case—Bronwyn would not have been up to the trip a week earlier.

No doubt I will be the bane of my workmates tomorrow. ("Ahh, is it Friday already?!") Hehe.