
There’s usually a thought worth thinking…
Until a problem arrives, more demanding,
Though factors currently depending…
On seriousness, practicality & spending,
Earlier plans may need synchronising,
The original idea may need some tweaking…
Options left available may leave you seething,
Chances of success may be receding?
Can you see where this ode is leading?
Your intentions may be beyond solving,
But you’ve got me sympathising,
You must be realising…
I do not want to be scaremongering,
Needs, desires, once so promising,
Hopes at birthing, now get a pulverising,
If possible, they need reorganising,
These failures will be nauseating,
Indeed, hellacious, repugnant & maddening,
No need for any self-admonishing…
Just come see Inchy; it’ll not be distressing…
We’ll share a chinwag, I’ll have you laughing,
I’m pretty good at motivating…
You’ll feel better after our 12-hour boozing!
06:20hrs: I awoke from the broken sleep night. However, each time I shot awake, mainly due to
Then things started to get farcical!
The J Sainsbury order email said they would deliver between 0858 and 0958. However, the intercom did not ring, and Carer Chloe, who made the first call, made her domestic call around 1000. I mentioned the JS order, and she later rang JS for me after discovering that the intercom was not working.
JS said they tried to deliver to me at 0945hrs but got no reply.
They will be delivering again tomorrow between 12 and 1300 hrs. Chloe informed Warden Julie and asked if she could check the condition of my intercom. Julie, on her own with the three blocks of flats to look after, said she would try to find time today. But it’s now gone at 16:00 hrs, so I imagine the gal is too busy. Oh, dearie, me! Even if Julie makes it today, there will still not be time to get a repairman out in time for the expected rearranged delivery.
I must be downstairs in the Woodthorpe Court’s main lobby from 11:45 to 1300hrs, minimum, in the morning. Which could be even dodgier, as the Cardiac nurse is due to call, and I may miss her while I’m in the lobby – not that I could hear her on the non-working intercom anyway. Also, the financial carer support is due around the same time!
The cheesy cobs, sliced bread, and the flowers for Julie and Jenny will have been in the JS bags for 18 hours and bashed about, no doubt, being delivered misshaped and or crushed.
This means they will have to be frozen in stale condition. What will they taste like later? God knows!
Carer Sam arrived for the noon visit/check. I told her of the farcical JS delivery, the intercom not working, and exactly how I felt. Depressed and utterly fed up with life and not getting enough help with things! Oh, I was low!
Back to earlier. (I’ve little concentration now) Feeling sorry for myself, and that’s not me.
Carer Chloe graded the morning’s
I paid the Porcelain Throne a visit for a good half-hour.
If not longer! Constipation Conrad was in
Then, I raised the camera to take
Somehow or other, I had not noticed what I assumed to be the moon while taking this snap. It looked too bright to be the moon. I am puzzled as to what it was if not, though?
I went to WordPress Reader and then to the comments page.
You may not believe it, but within minutes of taking this, the sky lit up when somehow the sun burst through on its Sunsetting
A wide shot, the top one.
Pretty really!
Strangely, this one came out alright, too.
The next job was to get something to eat.
Which I did.
I was unable to get any help with getting the Intercom repaired. I can no longer hear when the nurses or deliveries arrive!
Warden Julie is alone, looking after three blocks of high-rise flats. So, no blame on her. She didn’t arrive to look at the intercom, but I expected this. This leaves me in a pickle when the District nurses, Cardiac nurse, Social Lady and as for the JS order, I must get a wash & shave and go down to the main foyer to await the arrival of what will be then dried, squashed bread and rolls, flowers etc. being delivered!
I’ve also got to be downstairs for the arrival of the Warfarin Nurse Hristina. Otherwise, she cannot get in to take my blood. No idea what time the Cardiac Nurse is coming, but you can bet she’ll not be able to gain access!
Carer Promise arrived. I told him of today’s farcicalnesses. Well, it gave him a laugh, if nowt else.
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SO FAR THIS YEAR…
A camera goes blotchy on me, and another gives up the ghost!
The cooker/stove packs up on me. My Glaucoma op is cancelled.
Catheter Contraption Calamities galore! No banking details yet.
Toothache Tiffany returns. Anne Gyna is now at her worst ever!
Both Cartilage Chloe & Carol have had me over repeatedly!
The average sleep per night is currently at 2.5 hours!
Sandra’s Seizures are getting far worse! Boils on my bum!
Twitching Neck Ted & Thought Storming Steve regular!
I left the hot water tap running 82 times in January!
Computer, CorelDraw, MS, & Prescription problems.
Eyesight is getting worse as each day progresses.
Depression is no longer a rarity; it’s now permanent.
Misshearing on the phone, causing cock-ups.
Norovirus Flu seems to be lingering for a long time?
Now, the intercom in the flats is broken. Food and prescription deliveries cannot be made, and nurses cannot gain access.
Can’t get any help!
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I am struggling all around, losing ground…
Things going wrong… others compound,
Frustration: I’ve gritted my teeth and frowned…
The end is high; I’ll be bound!
I’m sick of being flatbound.
The sanity I once foreowned…
Has departed, and I’m all alone,
With help, my confusion to unconfound…
For solutions to confusion, I toss around,
But my brain is now thought-barren ground,
Ever more problems to confound…
Will I take them with me to my burial ground?
Frustrations are just grinding me down!
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KEEP SAFE, FOLKS!
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What a day. I’m sorry that it sounds like you’ll need to live in the lobby tomorrow!
My 2 bouts of norovirus each lasted 2-3 weeks. I’d have a hood day, then back to living on the toilet with a barf bucket on my lap. I still have bouts of multi-day constipation that are pure liquid when they break. That makes no sense to me. I hope you fare better than I have!!
I broke down crying in CostCo today… too much pain + a nasty pharmacy employee left me feeling vulnerable and uncared for. I guess it’s good that a key-making booth in the parking lot told me that a backup car key could be made for the “low” price of $299.99 + tax (full retail is closer to $600). The shock snapped me out of my pity party!!
I hope the intercom gets repaired immediately. Is there any option to jump the queue by asserting “necessity of life”???
Sorry to hear about you evacuations. Mine seem to alternate between extremes each time.
$299.99 + tax! That’s more than my first car cost! Hehehe!
No one has been to look at the intercom yet… unless they came but could not get through on the intercom to be let in? Tsk!
Hristina, my Cardiac Warfarin blood nurse is going to try to see the Warden about it. Bless her!
Got to go down to the lobby again (Gawd, it’s cold down there) in 15 minutes, in hope of the food arriving, to let them in.
And here was me thinking old age would bring a calmness, no-panic, relaxing life when I moved into the complex – /blimey, was I wrong! Hehe!
TTFN, best of luck! X
LOL!! Old age seems to bring nothing but constant new drama to deal with! I’m surprised & happy that my insurance approved SynVisc injections for my knees, but fearful that it means they’ll deny/delay the knee replacements that are finally moving forward after 20+ years!
How tall is the bldg you’re in? Your pics look like they’re taken from awfully high up!
I can understand you conundrum over the treatment my dear. I hope it all works out, fingers crossed for you.
The block of apartments is 15-storey, gal. I’m on the 12th… when I’m not in the lift letting people in and out. Hehehe!
Found out today they are coming on Friday to look at the intercom.
Cheers, Inchy! X
Friday??!! That seems unreasonable.
As long as it’s before next Monday, gal. Mon tue, are two more busy days medically.
Hope you doing well. X
Like Leenda mentioned, you might have to move to the lobby until the intercom is fixed. Sad state of affairs. Excellent photos and a decent-looking meal.
Haha! The lobby. I found out today that the reason it’s so cold in there, is someone sat on the heater and it came free of the brackets on the wall! I miss all this gossip not getting out. Hehe!
Got a call this morning, they are coming on Friday to have a look at it. Fingers crossed.
Cheers, Tim.
That’s lame.
As long as it’s sorted for Monday, nurses calling, and the dentist and two deliveries expect on Tuesday, that’ll do for me.
Cheers, Tim.
The intercom needs to be fixed, and the owner or manager needs to get it done. Those pictures are great, Gerry. That bright light in the sky sure makes you wonder what it is.
I learnt this morning, Tim, they are coming on Friday twixt 0800 & 2200hrs to look at the intercom problem.
A UFO? A Chinese spy thingy? Or a planet that I moved taking the shot and warped it? Hehe!
12 hours boozing sounds good nowadays, so much needs an anaesthesia 🙂
A further cock-up on the JS food that came for the second try to get it delivered. Two bottles of shandy had burst… they are not going to charge me for them. Huh! /It soaked into so many foods that I’ve had to throw lots away. Biscuits, veg, bread… Full list in tomorrow’s blog. Worra Day again! Tsk!
Cheers, mate.
That’s the thing about food deliveries, they don’t think it through, lots of complaints here too.
Grumph! Haha!