Something else I learned as well, see more so anybody that has a young family, and this is what I found was quite good, I used to, on my good days I used to batch cook, more so when they were all still at school because it meant that if I was in hospital they still had full meals, all that had to be done was take it out the freezer in the morning and it was ready just for heating up at night, so that was another thing that I learned to do.
Maybe it was the only thing that I would do that day, would be cook, but that was me, I cooked that day, and I maybe changed the beds or washed the windows the following day and you definitely, over a period of time, you do accept it. I mean it still annoys me, I mean I was the type of person that if the whole house wasn't cleaned and the beds weren't made for half past ten or eleven o'clock there was something really wrong with me, but your whole outlook changes and the Pain Management Course that introduced me to the pain.
The pacing, also had, you know I mean everybody does everything their own way, so it was, I decided then because I was in the hospital - out the hospital and it always concerned me quite a bit about my husband and the children and make shift meals that they were having while I was in hospital, and that was when I decided that was it and I would come home and I would be back on my feet and I would batch bake which I did and cook.
And that was good and I more or less kept that up until about a year ago, well not even a year, and its just my husband and I that's in the house and still quite happy to cook two when you've been cooking for quite a few, and aye, you take the pace and that is only a kind of rough guide you know, you know do this one day and do this the next and don't reproach yourself for no being able to do too much in the one day.
Sometimes you can do that as well and that's not very good for your morale if you start to criticise yourself for something that's no really in your control anyway, but… |
