Another busy one

I have had a good run of late, another busy week under my belt and quite close to my target in terms of income for this year too! Missed by a smidge, but the previous week blew it out of the water so my overall month is looking like I should be where I want to be come the end. Which is great… and things haven’t even got crazy busy as yet!

I came to a conclusion of sorts this week… health has been on a low and a downward slope now for quite some time - physical and mental - and hit the point that something had to be done to break the cycle. Honestly, I have tried everything. The main problems all stem from the car crash 7 years ago (I think about that long… maybe 6?) which damaged a disc in my lower back resulting in permanent state of sciatica. This has been getting worse over the last few months as my weight has been creeping up in line with stress. My go to method of dealing with both has always been to go mountain biking, but this is not possible due to pain, which feeds back to more depression, more stress and more poor food choices/stress eating and more weight.

There are two options that I have not yet considered - I have tried diets and extreme diets already… physiotherapy (a lot) has been exhausted too. So now it is a choice of medical routes - one is drug based, the other is surgical and brings with it a lot more potential of complications and failure. So drugs it is.

I will probably delve more into this on socials/YouTube rather than here over the next few months as I assess if this approach is going to be the silver bullet that finally helps get things under control so I can enjoy life more fully again.

Anyway, here are some examples of what I have been up to this week.

So a pretty mixed week of work, taking me from Strathconnon in the west to Elgin in the East, Ardersier and Invergordon also popping in. Next week is going to be another of travels as I start out with a trip north to Halkirk in Caithness. I still have some availability after Monday but it is starting to look nicely busy again - and is already close to the weekly target too!