Disclaimer

Once again it's been 3 months since I've posted anything and a lot has happened.  I'm mostly doing this for myself as a record of our journey and if I can help even just one other person along their journey then that'd be amazing, but I can't promise to post regularly.


Okay, that's my disclaimer out the way, now onto what's been happening...

We had our first appointment eventually which was tough but gave us a lot of the information we needed.  The woman we saw was lovely and really helpful and gave us a few options for places to be referred to.  We decided to go with Guys & St Thomas NHS in London for the process as they have better technology and results than our local options.  Fortunately we can have the treatments done by them in Sheffield which is a lot closer to home - we only have to travel to London once.

This Thursday we have our first appointment in Sheffield to discuss the actual process, what we need to do, how long it takes etc. so I'll post an update after that.  Needless to say we are glad we started when we did as it's now 6 months since we first spoke to the GP about getting the process started and we're only just getting our first appointment with the relevant people.

In other news, we have moved out of our house into a rented flat for the time being whilst our new house is being finished.  It should be ready just before Christmas which will give us time to get in and settled before the wedding in February.  The wedding itself has been put on the back burner unfortunately as we've both been trying to cram in a load of overtime to get some extra money saved up, sort the house out, sort the new flat out and all the other things.

We also had a very poorly cat in June who managed to eat some carpet and got the threads stuck around his throat and intestines requiring some pretty major surgery, a long recovery and a VERY expensive vets bill (needless to say we've purchased pet insurance since).  It was nice to see how worried ALS got about our little fur baby and definitely reassured me (and him I hope) that he's going to make a great dad.

I've had a few ideas that I've been wanting to post about and not got round to so hopefully in the next couple of weeks, depending on time, I will get a good few posts in about various things.