Heading home.

Walked home to try clear my head after a tricky shift, lots of back pain as a result of stocktake yesterday, and making mistakes of thinking about surgery and logistics late into the night - the excitement of Friday fading to the need to address practicalities as the reality of dates settle in.

So grateful for this chance, but much still feels fluid and different. Walking along the river for a bit helped me to get some perspective as ever. I am painfully aware of how lucky I have been, and how much support I have had, support which has brought me through the dark - especially when entirely unexpected!

Came home to my best friends and the presence of 3 new gerbils running about happily in their new house! A weekend together visiting this capital I still get to call home, and being mature adults (which *of course* we absolutely are) is long overdue.

Deo Gratias.