AIt could be I’m getting old or my bed is angry with me, but I’m getting up in the morning with a stiff left shoulder and today my neck is painful too. It’s extremely irritating as it hurts to hold my head straight. If I was to fetch the fishing tackle out and go for the water today, I fear that angling would be quite painful instead of what it should be, which is restful.
Angling is a chance for anyone to be able to spend some quality time by oneself, contemplate where life is heading and what can be amended, what is going well and what is not. One has so few opportunities to be by oneself and I honestly believe that could be a reason for an acceleration of unwanted stress. For instance, I work at home, my wife has also been at home on long term sick leave after after getting breast cancer in April last year. The best thing is that because I am at home, I have been able to support her, transport and be with her when she’s been having chemo and radiotherapy and then following that when she’s been dealing with the after effects I can look after our 4 year old.
However, the downside was that, mainly during the radiotherapy, which was every weekday, I could not get down to doing any work. After the journey to the hospital and back, which was at least a ninety minute exercise, then taking Will to school, having a bite of lunch, picking up Will again and coming home, there was rarely a period of an hour or more until late in the day when I could actually get down with doing anything which naturally meant that any prospect of taking the fishing tackle out of the garage and doing a bit of angling was all but out of the question. This raises my stress levels loads, with little opportunity of taking a decent break.
What is going on now is that things are settling down. Chemo and radiotherapy is finished, and Mrs Izzard is looking to return to work on January 17th which is very exciting. She will have to have an intravenous herceptin injection every three weeks but there are no vile side effects from that. So, because she will be collecting Will from nursery on her way home every day, it appears that if I wanted to, I could pinch a few hours of an afternoon doing some angling at one of the nearby canals. I do have to get some new fishing tackle before I can get going, as well as get a rod licence and become a member the Birmingham Angling Association to be permitted to fish the canals, but maybe I can get the paperwork sorted out by the time she goes back to work.
Whether I can spend an afternoon angling of course, will rely on work and whether I can do enough done in the mornings to be able to leave it and exchange the laptop for the fishing tackle. Perhaps Friday afternoons will be the easiest to justify, but at least since I work for myself then I will know whether I absolutely can afford to bunk off.
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