An exhausting week

Sinclair Seamen's Presbyterian Church

Hello everyone, it has been one exhausting week, I won’t say a long week, because it has been no longer than any other week.
Last Sunday I was summoned from work by my wife as she was with my seriously ill mother and other members of my family: because my mother was dying and the family had been informed by the hospital staff that death was imminent.
As things happened my mother hung onto life until 18:15 on the 3rd of November, I had left the hospital at around 17:30 to make my way home and was sitting at a bus stop at Belfast City Hall when my sister phoned me, informing me that my mother had passed away in the company of my wife and daughter, sister and nieces, who’s company my mother cherished.
My mother had been suffering from undiagnosed diabetes from which she went blind in one eye and had suffered from chronic and acute kidney failure over the past seven years, and had also suffered from a few strokes as well which had made her immobile.
Very fortunately my McArdle’s Disease didn’t give me much bother, probably because my body was charged with adrenaline, normally in stressful situations I would suffer from intolerable muscle tension which would make me stiff as a board meaning that I have to rest or even take some muscle relaxants to get me over the crisis but this time I survived the stress and will be going back to work on Tuesday after my compassionate leave is up.
While I have been off from work I received a hospital appointment for the ophthalmology department at the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast, to have my eyes checked out as I suffer from retinitis pigmentosa, the eye specialist has informed me that there could be a link between McArdle’s disease and my eye trouble but the jury is still out because there is not enough case history to give a verdict on the matter.
Hopefully when I go back to work on Tuesday that I won’t suffer any muscle problems, but envisage that I will have to work off some muscular tightness in my leg muscles which is par for the course after being off work for a while I will have been on leave for just over a week, time will tell.