Lifestyle: April/May 2025 Wrap Up 

What Happened in April and May

Join me as I recap what happened in April and May with my hair, blog, health, reading, travel and fitness.

Welcome to my April/May 2025 wrap up. A lot has happened over the past couple of months so here's a break down of what I got up to.

Unfortunately we started April with a funeral. The dad of my sons friends died. It came as a huge surprise to all of us and definitely brought home how everything can change in a moment. 

My youngest had his Invalsi exams at school so that was a little stressful. He's now preparing for his final exams which will be taking place in June. Can't believe he's so close to being done with middle school. These past three years have just flown by! 

Also in April, I had some issues with my Kindle reading app. There was a glitch and it removed all my books from my app. Luckily they were all still on my account so I didn't lose any but it's meant that I have to manual add them back onto my app again. On the upside it's given me a chance to rediscover books I'd forgotten I had on there that I still haven't read yet. 

I've also been having numerous health problems but I'll go into more detail about that later in the post. 

Wrapping Up April and May: What Happened

Hair

Health

My health has been a bit of an ongoing disaster for a long time now. 

I gave myself a goal to meditate every day in April. The idea being to improve my mindfulness and destress. As I'm a beginner I decided to use some apps to help me. 

As I already had the FitOn app installed in my phone I started with that one. They have a variety of different types of video meditations and affirmations to choose from. Unfortunately I didn't complete the whole month but I'll be reporting back soon with my full review of each app I tried. 

April wasn't great for my health but May was worse. I got hospitalised twice in the intensive ward, was in a lot of pain, and couldn't eat or even drink water for over a week. 

I'm incredibly grateful for all the amazing staff at the hospital who took care of me. Especially my doctor who realised straight away at our control visit that something was seriously wrong and sent me straight to the emergency room.

Turns out I have an extra long colon and diverticulitis which caused multiple blockages in my intestine. It is also the reason I have chronic gastritis and suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease. It also explains why my immune system is constantly struggling. In fact it explains a lot in general when it comes to my health issues. 

This is a big deal. I finally know what the cause of my chronic health problems is. It's taken 44 years but I've got the diagnosis! At least now I know what I'm dealing with and have specialist help to manage it.

I still need to have more tests done and I'm also still waiting on the results of the biopsies they did during my gastroscopy. Hopefully I'll have those soon. I'll also be having routine control visits from now on.

You might also like: Monthly Goal Ideas for Better Health

Blogging

Traffic for April: 88,834 page-views

Number of blog posts published in April: 16

Current DA score: 28

During April I was trying to get back into working on improving my website, updating older posts and checking for errors, broken links etc... 

I went on Google Search Console and discovered that some of my links weren't indexed by Google. I've since been going through to make sure all my links result as indexed and submitting those that aren't. 

Traffic for May:  54,347 page-views

Number of blog posts published in May: 12

Current DA score: 28

Reading challenges

The Clock Reading Challenge 2025

The Net Galley TBR Reading Challenge 2025

Currently reading:

Shadow in the Ward by Ari Gray - currently on page 116/345 - Amazon - Goodreads

Travel

Whilst I did manage to go briefly to the 1st May concert held at San Giovanni this year, we did have to leave early. My health just hasn't allowed for getting out and about.  

Fitness

I gave myself a goal of walking over 10,000 steps every day in April and I'm happy to report that I managed it most days (some I went over so that gave me an average of over 10K a day by the end of the month even if I didn't quite make it to 10K on a few days). 

I've discovered that I actually really like walking. Whilst most of my steps were done outside I did try a few of these easy walking workouts too.

I also gave myself a goal of 100 squats every day in April which I also completed.

Unfortunately exercising of any kind wasn't an option in May. 

You might also like: 30 Day Fitness Challenges for Beginners and Tips to Start Working Out: A Friendly Guide for Women Over 40 (or Anyone Just Getting Started)

How did you do with your Challenges in April and May? What challenges are you doing for 2025? Join the conversation in the comments section. 

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