Saturday? Sometime in November?

Life's all a bit of a blur, days, times, months are all merging into a swirling maelstrom of confusion.

This blog post is not really about me but our daughter, and for those of my friends and colleagues that don't have FaceBook, a brief update.

Our daughter, Bex, suffers from anxiety issues, and has done for many, many years, over the last few years these have become more pronounced, she also has an eating disorder, again, something she has had for over ten years.

None of these conditions have been helped by my own illness, and as we are very close the impact on her has been huge.

I do not want to write great reams on her past medical history, as that is now behind us, but finally due to her amazing brothers she is now getting the help she needs.

The boys felt that they could not sit back and let their sister fade away before their eyes, and so working together they collated a profile of her personality and concerns, and presented it to her doctor.

All four of them went to the surgery and talked through the family's situation, fortunately the doctor realised the very serious concerns the boys had for their sister and arranged an appointment with the Mental Health team over here.

Bex understands that in order to get her life on track she needs help and support from lots of people, she has tried repeatedly to help herself but always stumbles at the first hurdle.

It is only with a professional team that will work on all areas of her life that she knows will help her make a full recovery.

This will not be easy, we all know that, and it will take all our love and support to help her through.

We also realise there is no 'quick fix' to this problem, and the road ahead will be long and rocky.

Bex is being so incredibly brave and positive, and we are so proud of her, she is strong enough to take on this challenge and win.

All this has happened very suddenly this week, and so far we are only on day two, but I felt I had to put 'pen to paper', partly for me to make sense of it all, but partly to let folks know that I really am, and for the foreseeable future taking "one day at a time".

Thank you x