The girl is alright!

As some of you may have heard, we had a little accident on Sunday evening: Emilia fell from her highchair. Needless to say, it was very scary and a big wake up call from Rob and I who will now try to be even more careful. However, certain things are about to happen anyway.

I was cooking and Emilia was in the kitchen with me, sitting and playing on her highchair, as usual. Rob was in the other room watching football. She was very close to me and I kept an eye on her until I turned for two seconds to throw the cherry tomatoes in the pan and I heard the bang noise. When I turned around, I couldn't believe what I saw, she way lying on the floor, crying. How did that happen? Thankfully, I keep very calm in these situations, so I immediately went to her and gently hugged her trying to console her. Rob came to the room and noticed that there was blood on the floor. Panic. Her nose was bleeding and some blood dripped while I lifted her to hold her close to me. We immediately put cotton and cold water in her nose. We moved to the bedroom and she comfortably laid on the bed. She cried for a bit but I have to say, she was so strong. Thankfully, the nose stopped bleeding very soon and Emilia started smiling at us, kind of to say: "I am alright, don't you worry". We checked that her arms and legs were moving fine, together with the neck and the rest of the bones and muscles. Sooner than we imagined, she was back to her usual self. 

After a quick check with the doctor over the phone, we agreed that it wasn't necessary to take her to hospital. We only needed to monitor her behaviour for 24-48 hours. For two nights one of us slept in the room with her just to check that she was breathing fine. Otherwise, I am very happy to say that she is absolutely fine. And funny, as usual. Yesterday morning she was brushing her teeth, right after breakfast, and look what she did to make me smile? The girl is a comedian!

All is good!

After three days of intense work in Barcelona, and I am not going to lie, some fun and good food too, I got back to London on Wednesday night, very late at night in fact. Barcelona was good. The weather was simply amazing and the food just wonderful.

Sagrada Familia - like many of my projects, NEVER ENDING!

La Pedrera

  

 

Seafood Paella with vermicelli pasta - DELICIOUS!

Everything was good if it wasn't for the stress caused by the possibility of having my flight cancelled. In fact, I barely made it back to London. As you may know, the French Air Traffic Control was on strike and many flights were cancelled. In the end I was lucky as some of my colleagues got stuck in Barcelona and are still there! I suppose there are worse places to get stuck in and in other circumstances I would have not minded to stay longer but I had a surgery scheduled for Thursday so, as you can imagine, I was getting a bit stressed at the idea of not being able to fly back to the UK. It took me a long time to schedule the surgery, I certainly didn't want to postpone it. In the end, however, everything worked out well and I got back to London eventually. I landed around 23.00, was in the flat around 1.00am, made my hospital bag and went straight to bed. The morning after I woke up and got ready for the hospital. 

The surgery went well and apart from some pain in the affected area and a bit of weakness all is good! I have to thank my family for the support, Rob for being next to me the whole time, Emilia for all the smiles and my mum and grandmum for being here to look after me. Also, I want to thank my in-laws for the beautiful flowers they have sent me. I love white hydrangea, it's one of my favourite flowers, in fact, it's the flower I chose for our wedding. The plant is beautiful and as soon as I can move again I will plant it in a bigger pot outside. Thank you ever so much!