Home & health update

A little sneak peek into our home, I love how it’s turned out, the homemade wooden shelves, our furniture and the constant beautiful natural light that’s always streaming into our dining room and living room. We’ve tried to keep everything a bit rustic with a countryside feel to it and still be true to our own style.

It’s been rough at my last physiotherapy session, my knee hurts like hell and there’s something inside of it that just feels wrong somehow. Like every time I try to bend it, something inside of my knee pinches and I feel this intense stabbing pain. This also happens when I try to stretch my leg out after having tried to bend it.. It kinda feels like something is pinched / stuck inside of my knee, it’s a really strange and scary feeling.

I can’t sleep on my right side at all, my whole right side of my shin is so uncomfortable to sleep on and also my shin is numb, so it’s impossible to sleep on my right side. I feel no nerve improvement at all, I am scared that I won’t regain any feeling back, especially since I haven’t experienced any improvement, not even a little. But if I never dislocate my kneecap ever again, it’ll still be worth it. I just hope that the pain goes, it’s quite hard to live with that stabbing and burning sensation, every time I take a step, try to bend or stretch my leg.

My other leg hurts as well, due to the constant weight I put on it to compensate for my bad leg. It’s an evil circle really and it’s draining both physically and mentally. Right now I’m lying in bed, trying to rest both my knees. One due to surgery and the other due to overcompensation, my good knee feels so sore and uncomfortable. I hope I’ll be able to sleep tonight, but it’s been many months since I had a good nights sleep. Since the accident at work to be honest. It’s complete torture to have a sleep pattern like this and to be woken up due to pain.

My scars look better, but the small one near my knee is atrophic. It itches, burns and it feels really tight. I apply Bio-Oil on all my scars, both morning and evening and massage the scar tissue. But this one scar still causes me a lot of grief. I hope it’ll start to soothe.. The one on the inside of my knee is very discolored still, I hope it will disappear though, but at least it’s not as bad as the one near my knee.

I have an appointment with my surgeon the 9th of March, I hope he can help me figure out what the pain in my knee could be and what to do with this scar. I really hoped it would have been almost invisible, the way I was stitched actually gave me every possibility for the scar to be tiny.

It wasn’t a big or wide scar, so I hope that it’ll heal and look nice and invisible at some point. But I don’t know much about scarring or their healing process. I’ll have to speak to my surgeon and see if there’s still hope for the scar to get thinner and less bumpy. I’m crossing my fingers and hope I won’t need another surgery to remove the atrophic scar.

This shows how small the scar actually was.

The weather has been beautiful these past few days. The sunshine has been a very welcome friend, that I have enjoyed as much as possible. I long for summertime and warm weather, flowers and to be able to pick cherries on our tree in the garden.

What do you miss the most right now? Life pre COVID19? Summer? Traveling? All valid things to miss. Honestly most of all I miss being able to sleep at night, not worrying about my knee and to be able to run and to kneel.. Pretty simple things to be honest, but important.

Hope you’ll have a wonderful weekend and that good things are coming your way! See you online. x

October in pictures

We’ve been in constant DIY mode, to put it mildly.. 🥴 I started October off, dislocating my kneecap, that was insane and painful and totally unexpected! So I’m out of the DIY game for the moment, but D has been pushing forward, getting the living room ready for Christmas. The 17th of Nov, I’m going to an examination of my knee at a private hospital, the only reason I’m going to a private hospital, is due to the long wait list at the public hospitals and in Denmark we have a max 30 day wait to be examined. If it’s longer than 30 days, your entitled to go to a private hospital. I would have been waiting to be seen till next year, so I’m thankful for the 30 day max system! 😳

We’ve chosen to stain our windowsills white, they were mahogany and very dark.. Our style is Scandinavian, light and modern – which does not really go with mahogany at all. So they got sanded down, stained white and the result is amazing.

D ended up having to spray paint the radiators, they were yellow and just plain old looking, but the finished result is awesome and fits the living room much better! We chose a matte white for the radiators, normally they are glossy, but I’m really pleased that we chose the matte white, it looks great.

We ended up celebrating Halloween, since I’m home full time with my knee, I needed some cheering up and D managed to put up decorations – although I helped carve the pumpkins! Mine is the little one, D’s is a masterpiece as always lol, he is way too good at carving pumpkins, seriously! It’s not fair, I’ve only carved pumpkins for like three years, in Denmark Halloween is a newly adopted thing, so I’m not used to pumpkin carvings at all, but hey I made a fair attempt! 🥴

The sealing got a once over too! We painted it with “Trip Trap” paint where you can see the wood through the paint, which was just what we wanted! We have a theme I guess? 😂 Our floor is white stained too, windowsills and now the sealing.. Not bad, I adore it!

D carved out shelves for our square hole in the dining room, it looks amazing so far, and yes, you probably guessed that we are staining these shelves white too.. 😅 They are mahogany, and will fit in will with the windowsills.

COLOR you guys! We needed some color, so we had a curtain company stop by, take some measurements and we ended up loving this greyish green color, and we are getting this color everywhere in the living room. I think we really needed a color, and the grey-green will fit our furniture so well and also let in the natural light and create a cozy atmosphere in the living room and dining room.

At the very end of October, my roses started to blossom and also my fuchsia is in full flower! It’s beautiful, but also a little strange.. The weather has been extremely mild in Denmark, considering that it’s autumn. This is our first winter in the house, I can’t wait to experience it! It’s all so unreal, I still can’t believe all of this is ours, I’m so happy and I can’t wait to get to experience all of the years seasons here, in our house. ❤️

I hope everyone is staying safe, this year for Halloween we gave the kids gloves, so they could still have candy, and all the candy we had, was wrapped. England is closing down again, I’m worried about my bonus babies and their family, D’s family and the friends we have in England.

I hope everyone is staying safe, social distancing and no matter where you are from, whatever country, I hope you are safe and that your government is doing their best to keep you safe. I hope that 2021 will be a much better year, but I’m worried about the future and for our future generation. How will life be, with this pandemic, and how bad will it actually get, before it gets better? So many questions..

I’ll see you guys online x