I blame Brisbane

For many things really - it is just setting the clocks forward by one hour people! Not that hard! Just get up an hour earlier to milk the cows! And noooo, your curtains will not fade faster because of it!!!

But on a serious note - no wait, I'm talking about Queensland, how can i be serious!!! "Well don't you worry about that", pumpkin scones all round!!!

Ok, so last week i had to travel to Brisvegas for work. For those of you who have not noticed that there is a second blog that i have (check out the visit worthy blogs under 'Peanuts blog') i am currently pregnant. 31 weeks or 7 months pregnant to be precise. I checked with the airlines before booking the trip and they said that i can fly up till 35 weeks without a medical certificate but would need a letter from my GP to confirm my current due date - easy done.

So the airlines are like 'you are fine to fly', my GP is like 'if you have to go, but this will be your last trip interstate right?', my team in Brisbane is like 'Yaaa, your coming up for a visit', my team in Melbourne are like 'We are going to watching you the whole time - you are not going to do too much' and i am like 'Hmmmm, not sure if i want to do this trip, not sure if i can get out of it'.

Can't get out of it - well i might have been able to get out of it had i been to a physio and had the strange pain in my hips when i walk looked at, but I hadn't. And being the soldier i am, i had not really told anyone about it either.

So the flight up was fine till we started the decent into Brisvegas and hit a patch of turbulence. Not only was the plane shaking, but the bubs was to! So i was being rocked from both outside and in!!! Not pleasant.

Got to the office, had some meetings, got taken out for lunch - roast lamb, mmmmm - had more meeting and found my hotel on a little map that i had picked up at the airport. I had two traveling companions with me this time and one of them was staying at different hotel (limited accommodation availability because of Kylie Minogue concert the following day - and schoolies) and by the time i was ready to leave the office, the other traveling companion, with which i was sharing an apartment, was still in meetings.

Did the walk to the hotel myself, very easy to find and only about 10 minutes away. Checked in, went up to room, turned on telly, sat on the couch and instantly fell asleep.

The next thing i remember was being woken up by roomie frantically opening the door and asking me if i was ok, while saying to her mobile "she's here, i looks like she just fell asleep". It seems that both of my colleagues had been trying to call my mobile to make sure i found the hotel, and when neither could reach me had assumed....

But a little time has gone by, we can laugh about it now. It is lucky that i was in the apartment with someone and not at the other hotel on my own really!

We then got ready for dinner, Brisbane team members had a attack plan for food, and walked back to the office to meet them. We walked down to the river and got into a ferry and went across to the other side. This is now the part that i wished i had have said something rather than played follow the leader.

When the ferry docked at the other side there was a rather steep stair case to climb - to get to a stupidly steep hill to navigate so we could get to up to the road that would take us to the restaurant of choice. And this is when the pain in my hips really kicked in stay.

Dinner was nice, service was scarily slow, but the food was delicious - and it was fun watching my senior manager getting more and more drunk as the night wore on.

Got a cab back to the hotel and crashed on the bed - pain.

Got up in the morning and walked to the place where our morning workshop was being held - pain

Got into a cab to go back to the airport - pain

Got on the plane to come back to sunny Melbourne - pain

Got to Melbourne airport and 'jumped' into a cab to take me home - pain

Stopped at office on the way to pick up parcels that had arrived while i was away - pain

Got home, home sweet home, my place of comfort and support - bearable pain

M34tb4LL got home a few minutes after i did - forgot the pain

So, got up the next morning and went to local physio to make an appointment. Had said appointment on Wednesday and the pain that i am experiencing is due to my hip becoming out of alignment and tilted on one side. Then the whole trip to Brisbane and walking that should not have occurred has torn muscled around the already aggravated area.

I have sticky plaster on my back (not sure how plaster on the skin is going to help bones, but) and a list of don'ts (not many do's to think of it) and i have another appointment this week.

The pain now depends on how much i try and do, and the physio assures me that it will get better with treatment and time.

Though the airlines say you can fly up till 35 weeks, think about the other activities you may be engaging in and get medical advise about any concerns, strange niggling pains, before venturing out!

(: G