One of the most awful things in life is to see someone you love suffering, my poor Lorni has suffered more than most over the last few years and none of it through her own fault, everyone knows what her daughter and ex has put her through and what that did to her mental health but then while she was away from work she was blamed for something that wasn't her fault but the powers to be didn't think she was going to return to work so they used her as a scapegoat.
My gorgeous wife is now suffering from joint pain, she has arthritis in her fingers her shoulder and even worse her knees. After an operation to remove part of her cartilage having waited nearly 6 months, things have gotten worse. Courses of Physiotherapy, Acupuncture and pain killing injections into her knee have resulted in deteriorating physical mobility and increase in pain levels, what she needs of course is a knee replacement and even if she can get referred there is a two year wait!!!! this is unacceptable. In the meantime she continues to struggle to work with knee splints and crutches, she is my hero.
Our plan for moving to Spain was for Lorni to complete her work contract until she is 55 and then join me in Spain but! with all this pain I have told her that as soon as we sell up she will come with us take early retirement and we will pay to get her knee sorted so she can start to enjoy life again. So we wee over the moon the weekend before last when we were offered what we considered to be a great price for this house our hopes went up but and isn't there always a but! the offer fell through as the couple who wanted to buy this house lost the sale on their place.
As you can imagine our hopes were dashed yet again we felt low very low and then the Estate Agent phoned us to arrange viewings for two more families one of which put in an offer and even though it was a bit lower than our first offer we accepted as we just want to get out of here and of course get Lorni's health sorted. Talking of health I was sent to a gum specialist a few weeks back as one of the medications I am taking for hyper tension has caused problems with my gums which I need to get sorted before anymore work is done to save my teeth, so as always its never boring in this house.
The need to leave the UK is even more required than ever and in that vain we continue to pack and throw things away that we no longer need and therein lies another problem what I think needs throwing and keeping is a mile away from what Lorni thinks needs throwing or keeping, this has of course lead to some serious discussions, that's a nice way to put it and eventually we compromise, so we just keep on packing and hoping.
Now while all this is going on one of the other things that I am trying to do is to start to learn a new language, while I was at school all those y ears ago we had French language lessons and I always found the grammar not just difficult but downright silly this was mainly due tot he fact that we and by "we" I mean the kids who were at school with me were the first not to be taught English grammar so to learn another language well we had no hope I got an "A"in French "Absent" but now I have to really try and get my head round it.
Well you never know
While all this packing and learning is going on I still have a garage to empty, I have loads of radio controlled planes to get rid of various bicycles that over the years the kids have outgrown, and then there is all my tools to sort out as I am not leaving them behind, I have to try and sell the planes and bikes and give away all my home wine making gear and then I can finish off sorting out my Harley and get her ready for sale it looks as if my Yamaha's future has been decided by the insurance company.
I wouldn't say we are ready to move yet but we are getting there and I am sure if this offer sticks then all of this packing sorting and selling stuff with speed up, and as anyone who has moved house before knows it can be very stressful even more so when you are about to leave the Country as well, we keep plodding on!
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