Catch up :)

Hey,

I'm writing today whilst watching repeats of 'The Last of The Summer Wine' on tv whilst drinking copious amounts of water and tea. Regular followers of this blog may already know I suffer from a condition called P.O.T.S, which basically makes me extremely fatigued and experience pain and discomfort due to my heart beating too fast. In the past year I've been fortunate that I haven't had many dips in health, but as its such a variable condition, you can be doing quite well and then your body just changes and suddenly you feel quite ill. Luckily with help from your P.O.T.S doctor and medication these dips aren't forever, but it's bloody annoying and pretty hard to deal with never the less. In the last two/three months it isn't so much my P.O.T.S that's causing me discomfort, although I feel it always gets worse in the cold weather strangely?? But I think I'm more run down and this is my second infection I've had  in three months. I don't want to be down about it and so I'm doing more to occupy my mind whilst being too weak to do college work. For me this is, of course, blogging, but I've also joined an online group for people with my condition and it's really helping. Sometimes, because P.O.T.S is a condition is very much kept behind closed doors, in aim of living a reasonably 'normal' life, you can sometimes feel isolated in people's lack of understanding when you can't do something, or don't have the energy to socialise. (Despite how much you want to!). These groups are great as you realise there's literally thousands of people all over the world experiencing what you experience and it means you feel like you are not alone, you're not moaning and others feel the same.
This week, I've also done something I've wanted to do for ages and that's buy a professional camera. My mum is on a 'buy it, sell it, swap it' group on Facebook and a wonderful canon camera flashed up the other night whilst cosying by the fire. Within half an hour we were at the gentleman who was sellings'  house inspecting the article and I BROUGHT IT!!
I can't believe it as I've wanted one for so long! This means another thing I've been enjoying is getting into photography (as much as an amateur can). Sso today, despite not being able to go out I managed to wrap up and go into the garden to take some lovely pictures. I don't think there's anything better than the beauty of nature to make you realise no matter how annoying things are (being ill etc), beautiful things still go on and life is more than that!
Alls I can hope is to be better ASAP and get to attend the creative writing group I've joined (it's fab!)
It reminds me to keep smiling! It's nearly Christmas!!! Ahh are you ready?!

Hope this post finds you well and doing some pretty cool stuff too!

Molly Xxx