Hi all,
Happy Sunday to you if you're reading this today and I hope you're having a wonderful weekend.
On Friday I went with two of my daughters to the o2 to see McBusted, a 'supergroup' of two bands, Mcfly and Busted, joined together as one - minus one member of Busted who is far too cool for any of that nonsense!
I will go to live music events whatever they are within reason and I saw no reason to not go to see this gig. My youngest daughter used to love Busted and she has seen McFly before and loved them. I used to really like the member of Busted who didn't want to part of the supergroup but I am partial to a bit of McFly as I sing along to the songs when I am at work bathing one of 'my' boys because he loves the songs too. In fact, he and I have our own little McFly playlist for shower time which starts with 'It's All About You', then goes into 'Lies' and ends with 'Love Never Dies'.
When the tour was announced I had a pleading call from my daughter almost begging me to get tickets and how could I refuse? Any excuse!
The three of us meet at the arena and sat for about 3 hours in a Brazilian restaurant and had lovely food and even lovelier cocktails and chatted about allsorts of stuff until it was time to find our seats.
We were, as seems usual for us, way up high in the arena....the sort of seats where you get vertigo if you stand up...but we had a great view of the stage and we were happy and excited as the start of the show got closer. There was a wonderful atmosphere in the place as start time approached. It was like going to a Take That concert back in the day.
The band arrived on stage in a DeLorean car accompanied by flashing lights, fireworks and explosions and we were off. It was brilliant I have to say. The show was slick, professional and full of incredible energy. The band took it in turns to take the lead vocal through a huge variety of their hits and, at one point, they emerged from the ceiling in a spaceship which hovered over the crowd while we all sang along to 'Star Girl'. I was impressed with the whole thing which I was surprised about to be honest. Would I go again? Absolutely yes.
We had a fairly uneventful trip home and caught the last train from Waterloo which was packed...SRO...and had more than it's fair share of inebriated and noisy people on board but that's the norm it seems. We got indoors at about 1 a.m., had a cuppa and then went to bed as I had an early start for a morning shift the next day.
The morning came round very quickly and I dragged my body into the shower, dressed, fed the dog and went to work.
Half way through my shift I had a phone call to say that my middle daughter, who had been experiencing deteriorating vision in one eye lately, had a suspected detached retina.
Both of my elder girls have a genetic condition which predisposes them to eye problems such as cataracts and detachments and we have been through a whole catalogue of eye problems with our eldest but this was the first of such issues for our middle girl.
It was decided that my hubby, bless him, would take her to Moorfields, the world renowned eye hospital in London, for a thorough assessment because we know that time is of the essence as far as retinal detachment is concerned. Sight can be saved by early intervention and sight can be lost by putting things off. It really is as basic as that.
After lots of tests, and nasty eye drops, it was concluded that the retinas on both eyes are intact and that the loss of vision in one eye is due to an unusual type of cataract that is growing quite rapidly. Massive relief all round for everyone, especially my daughter who has 3 youngsters to look after.
These sort of events used to be fairly regular occurrences for our family and it used to seem like hardly a week would go by without some drama or other and I would always go into meltdown and be very dramatic. I have to say that this time I was fine which was a real eye opener to me. I think there are several factors in my attitude this time:
a) daughter was very calm(on the outside at least)
b) I knew there was nothing I could do about it
c) I'm taking antidepressants for anxiety
If its the last of the three things, the tablets, I'm so glad that I'm taking them. I do feel generally much calmer and I don't spend so much time thinking 'what if...'. This is a huge step forward for me. Better late than never I know but a huge step none the less.
So, we will wait and see what today brings. Hopefully, peace and serenity....and a trip to see my father in law too!
Keep smiling everyone. Summer is on the way.
Much love
xxxxxx
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