The start of the year was terrible. I don’t really know where to go from there, I suppose I’ll start from the week before Christmas.
The week before Christmas our family isolated so we could spend Christmas Day with my grandad. Little did we know it would be the last day we got to spend together. On Christmas Day we shared some whiskey and had a fab time. My cousins daughter dropped him round a Christmas dinner.
Then the next day he was struggling to breathe so he was taken by ambulance into hospital. What we didn’t know was he had suffered from heart failure and passed peacefully on the 5th January. This was so very hard to take as we were really close. One of the last things he said to me was not to cry. I failed on this.
The funeral was a lovely affair and it was clear that he had an impact of so many lives. I am proud to have known him.
I also started ramping my workouts up in January and managed to lose a stone in weight. I’m starting to feel good again. I am so happy that I had the pain cave built as it means I can train at home and really enjoy it. However, today, I tested positive for Covid.
Yesterday I was feeling very tired and didn’t think too much of it. But this morning I woke feeling a bit rougher and had a chesty cough and felt lightheaded. Unfortunately one of my sons also tested positive.
So the next 7 days is light strength and conditioning training in the pain cave. Hoping it doesn’t get much worse.
Bipolar Ironman 
Hi Carl. I haven’t spoken to you in ages. Partially because I’ve started my new job at the end of October and had an extremely intense 2 months with that. Then it was Christmas and everything to get ready for that as our house was the hub where everyone met and ate and enjoyed time together. It was lovely and I really like my new job, but I’m spending an awful lot of time working. It’ll get easier though as I find my ways in the new role. At least the finances are better now.
Anyway, enough of me!!! What I was getting to is that we haven’t spoken in ages and it was really good to read your post and see how you are. I’m so sorry about your grandpa, but how wonderful, that you saw him at Christmas! I’m sure he’ll be sitting on that little cloud up above being ever so proud of you and your family.
So now you’ve got the virus, I hope that you and your son don’t feel too bad with it. I wish you both a speedy recovery and I hope that it won’t affect Linda. How is she doing?
It would be lovely to catch up when you’re well again. Take care,
Kat x
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