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I had my first respite carer in yesterday, didn't think this day was ever going to come round!!. Eve Grimstead was her name (sounds like someone from corrie!). Eve arrived at 10am because I wanted her to come in early as I had a dentist appointment (Joy!)at 10.30. I had arranged with the Association of Carers for her to sit-in from 10.30-1.30pm. I don't know first respite care and I had moved the goalposts..already lol. It was only a routine check-up at the dentist today,"no problems see you in 9...
Well I started the day by being in work, but getting more excited and slightly nervous about meeting a member of my Macland family , in PERSON!!
I had to go to hospital today to have Boob Tubes flushed, and LM told me she was going htere too, and,,,, at the same time lol!
Too good an opportunity to miss and now we've done it I want to meet all of you so LM will have to get this Group Meet event sorted heehee!!
So, having swapped some details about height, hair colour or in my case, colour...
What a busy day.....
what a bloomin weird day...
Started with Blood test at the GPs. Last one said some things were a little low so needed a retest in 4 weeks. Ok.... so troop down to surgery and nice nurse does her stab, ouch thing but gets the blood out first time...
Are you having the flu jab she says?
Well, you sent me a letter saying I should get one says LM who doesn't usually like stuff like that (but then again she usually doesn't get ill either ha ha ha) maybe I should...?
...Just took hubby to the station for his early train into work. He looked awful and the lingering smell of last night's dinner in the kitchen made him feel very nauseous. It is now day 6 of the first round of chemo. Tomorrow he has to go to the hospital to have the chemo bag changed for another week and then he will have two weeks off.
As I watched him walk towards the platform, I could have wept. He walks slowly and with effort, but he is determined to not let the side effects get the better...
I have just shaved all my hair - well, the sparse tufty bits that were hanging on - off. I borrows a friends hair clippers. How weirdly liberating in a arrgghh I'm bald isn't it quite amusing in an odd way!! :D
We got the new expresso/cappuchino machine working this evening - no LM, it's NOT red and shiny like yours, its black and shiny, which I guess matches the slow cooked Hehehehe! - and it's very fast! No more lurking waiting for the cafeterie (sp?) to brew and plunge it etc...
So I arrive at hospital for 7 am. No food from midnight - well ten o'clock and no water from 6 am. All seems to go well. I am admitted and I meet the anaesthetist and surgeon/consultant who tells me what they are going to do - bit of a surprise as they still didn't know what they were dealing with and would decide once they were in!
Anyway at 9 am I get visit from surgeon - sorry but the equipment in the operating theatre isn't working and I am being moved to a different list. That will...
My lovely friend Sunny whom I love so much and wish i could hug for real is having a bad day and quite rightly so.
I am having a bad day and not rightly so at all... in the great scheme of things it isn't a big deal. I am alive and the sun is shining and my friends are all so much worse off than me and I should be making you laugh and smile and supporting instead so....
excuse this grump. Its just a little one. Ignore me and go and read yesterdays silly again instead. Just need a grumpy dump...
(*Warning this was my first day without Kev in three weeks, may seem so much less then it seems to me*)
So my mum and I are sitting in the waiting room yesterday waiting to see her chest consultant, her chest has been a bit bubbly since being put on and off the fentynl patches and changing medications around again. The clocks ticking and its time for her to take her oxynorm (been given the go ahead to give it to mum every two hours if pain is severe, today she last had it at 4am its now 12.30 and...
Friends Reunited ............... ? I don't know if it's just me but since this new site launch nothing has been the same, I have experienced difficulties with making replies to blogs and so forth - however, that problem has come to light and is hopefully being addressed ( Internet Explorer 9 ) So whilst I can gain access using my hubby's laptop - different browser - I shall try and make the most of it.
As so many of you have already pointed out, the lack of a more visual friend's activities...
