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Sydney and back in 3 days

I'm back!!! :D My dad surprised me on Sunday and said that we were going to Sydney. I love Sydney. It's where I was born, grew up and whilst I left when I was 9, I still consider it my home. Don't get me wrong, I think it would be really hard and sad to move back down because of all the wonderful people I have in Brisbane, but every time I go there I just am happy, I forget about my problems and enjoy my time there with family and friends.

Sunday also marked the first time I'd been on a plane with my hip issues. I was very nervous. And whilst it would have been better if I'd had an aisle seat and been able to walk around and if our plane hadn't been 3 hours delayed haha. We actually got on the plane and sat there for 2 hours before being told we had to get on a new plane because they couldn't fix whatever was wrong with our plane. Oh well, not a big deal. We'll live. It was a nice trip actually and we saw a lot of family and friends I hadn't seen in ages. I'm a bit tired today but I'm feeling very happy because I've proved, at least until myself that chronic pain/illnesses cannot hold me down! Which makes me feel great because I've felt pretty down lately.

We had to come back for today though because in about an hour I'm having another appointment with my doctor that seems to know everything about everything to get the test results. Hopefully he finds something. I think that's funny that when you have chronic pain or chronic illnesses you end up praying for the tests to find something on your tests haha :) just part of my kinky qwerks hey?

Off to the specialist

BB :)

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