Update On The Walk

Sorry first of all for not posting last week. We'd been to Butlin's for the week and came back on Friday so I didn't have time to post anything as we were travelling back, sorting everything out when we got home, and I was knackered by the end of it.

I think for this week's post I need to give an update on the 10 mile walk I was planning on Sunday. To be honest I've had a hellacious few days this week with stress, anxiety, illness and a whole host of other things going on externally, which have all just come crashing down on us as a family all at once. Needless to say my World Autism Awareness Week hasn't gone anywhere near as well as I'd planned! I'm back at work today after taking Wednesday and Thursday off, but I'm still not 100%. In terms of mental health I feel a lot better now than I did a few days ago, thanks to isolating myself in a dark room as much as possible with just my cat for company. As far as my physical illness goes (and without going into the gory details that nobody wants to know), my stomach still isn't great at the moment so I can't take the risk of being out and about for 3-4 hours while I walk home from York Minster so I'm looking at other options of how I can still do the walk so I'm not letting anyone down. I'm hoping to be able to borrow a treadmill from somebody so that I can walk 10 miles without even leaving home. At least that way, if I need to run off to the bathroom I can just carry on from where I was. The other option is to delay it, but I really don't know when I'd be able to do it if I did delay it because my wife starts back at her uni placement next week, so it'll leave me on my own a lot with the kids. I guess delaying is one of those things where I'd have to cross that bridge when I come to it. Ideally, I'm hoping to get access to a treadmill on Sunday to do it that way.

So it was just a quick update this week to let you know where I am with everything, but there's still time to donate to and share my Just Giving page at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/daveshaw13 and to raise a bit more before the day. I was supposed to have a day in the office yesterday (I normally work from home) but because I was ill I didn't go. What I was planning on doing was designing and printing some leaflets to promote my walk which I could then leave in the kitchen areas in the office, but obviously that didn't work out. But that shouldn't stop us from still doing our bit to raise money for a great cause!