Inchie Today: Monday 20th October 2025

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I considered this morning, it was time I abstained…
From life, hard enough, is making me addlebrained,
I grow more physically & mentally, totally drained,
With so many problems that can’t be solved,
Old ones, new ones get me so aggravated,
Computer mysteries, CorelDraw, nothing gets alleviated,
Blue screen, my hard drive memory terminated…
Imminent failure, it can’t be ameliorated,
Think my bank account might be being pilfered,

Plans, hopes abandoned and or distorted,
Is my sanity being manipulated…
I am so very depressed and frustrated…

Promised help is never allocated,
I’ve never been so beleaguered!
I’ve never been so bumfuzzled, flustered,
I’m full of anguish, melancholy and misery, 
Pathetically self-pitying, life now has me shtupped,  
I used to be a social dizzard…
It’s been donkeys years since I last Kvelled,
I think it must have been while being lactated,
My brain was sharp and uninhabited,
Now I find it’s got dementia, & been watered,
At the clinic on the 22nd, I might get Trephinated,
I always seem worried, fretting or wherreted,
Whatever my fate, it’ll just have to be accepted.
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I fear the worst shortly. Sod all is getting done in my efforts to get help. The appointments and lifts for them keep changing, despite Ejaz doing his best to sort and arrange them for me. 
Into the valley of life, the idiot limped.

Colourful this morning.

Early morning view.

Problem after problem with the computer again.
Google changed things and confused me.
Grammarly stopped working.
Hearing aids packed up again!

I tried to get Grammarly to work again. Clicked on the use Google option – and got a screen…
Huh!
Went back and pressed the other options.
Nope!
Turned everything off and restarted.
Then tried again…
Lost now.

Two hours of further failures.

Then the .
It was a District Nurse to examine the leather-skinned leg and ankle skins.
She found that the lesions were bleeding when she took off the right leg’s bandage. Deciding to put on two different ankle and leg straps on both legs.
Asking if the Carer can take them off every morning, when you need to have a shower or wash your feet in a bowl. He can put them back on at his next call. My first thought was that with winter coming, I’m going to have a few cold periods without socks or straps on. She left a guidebook on how to put the ankle and straps on and take them off.
Cover
Left/right thigh instructions
Left & right toe & foot

Arm & wrist
Care instruction details.
Leg, Ankle & Foot.
All fitted.

Ejaz spent too much time trying to sort out a lift for the Neurology visit for me. Bless him.
It took us hours, and we got refused in the end.

Then he tried the Doctors to find out about the flu and COVID-19 vaccinations, t see if they were still coming to me for it. They aren’t!
After all his efforts, we still can’t sort it out.

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Going to sort something to eat now.
Potato nuggets, sausage, garden peas, Milk Roll bread, and a Lemon & Lime yoghourt.

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TTFNski!
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By Inchie

78 years of age, pretty ugly, short, bald, pot-bellied, in ill health. Decaying physically and morally. Mechanical ticker valve, Duodenal Donald, Saccades-Sandra, Arthur Itis, Hernia Henry, Hard of Hearing Hank, Bad eyesight Boris, Reflux Roger, Peripheral Neuropathy, Nerve Neurotransmitters Not-working Wendy, Bladder Cancer Chris, Stuttering Stephany, Haemorrhoid Harold, Shaking Shaun, Dizzy Dennis, FND, ... there are others, but I've tired myself out, now! Hehehe! Oh, then I had a stroke! Now awaiting Cataract & Glaucoma operations. Diabetes 2, Leg-Ulcer-Ulrich, Cartilage Chloe & Carole and am flat-bound. Tsk! Failures, Accifauxpas and Whoopsiedangleplops are my Forte... Hehehe! I love making folk smile when I can. TTFNski!

7 comments

  1. Even if you accept fate, Gerry, you can still do your best to improve things. Those care instructions are strategic. I sure hope things get better for you. 💖🙏

    1. Inchy – Nottingham. UK. – 78 years of age, pretty ugly, short, bald, pot-bellied, in ill health. Decaying physically and morally. Mechanical ticker valve, Duodenal Donald, Saccades-Sandra, Arthur Itis, Hernia Henry, Hard of Hearing Hank, Bad eyesight Boris, Reflux Roger, Peripheral Neuropathy, Nerve Neurotransmitters Not-working Wendy, Bladder Cancer Chris, Stuttering Stephany, Haemorrhoid Harold, Shaking Shaun, Dizzy Dennis, FND, ... there are others, but I've tired myself out, now! Hehehe! Oh, then I had a stroke! Now awaiting Cataract & Glaucoma operations. Diabetes 2, Leg-Ulcer-Ulrich, Cartilage Chloe & Carole and am flat-bound. Tsk! Failures, Accifauxpas and Whoopsiedangleplops are my Forte... Hehehe! I love making folk smile when I can. TTFNski!
      Inchie says:

      I’m losing heart, mate. The struggle never ends, wearing me down, gets harder. But, can try, Tim. Cheers. 🤎🙏🏻.

  2. pvcann – Augusta, Western Australia – I'm Paul a writer based in Augusta, Western Australia. My main passion is writing poetry.
    pvcann says:

    I guess that’s another side to this, worry shouldn’t be swept under the carpet, but when one has social contact it helps alleviate some of it. Accept but not surrender ❤️

    1. Inchy – Nottingham. UK. – 78 years of age, pretty ugly, short, bald, pot-bellied, in ill health. Decaying physically and morally. Mechanical ticker valve, Duodenal Donald, Saccades-Sandra, Arthur Itis, Hernia Henry, Hard of Hearing Hank, Bad eyesight Boris, Reflux Roger, Peripheral Neuropathy, Nerve Neurotransmitters Not-working Wendy, Bladder Cancer Chris, Stuttering Stephany, Haemorrhoid Harold, Shaking Shaun, Dizzy Dennis, FND, ... there are others, but I've tired myself out, now! Hehehe! Oh, then I had a stroke! Now awaiting Cataract & Glaucoma operations. Diabetes 2, Leg-Ulcer-Ulrich, Cartilage Chloe & Carole and am flat-bound. Tsk! Failures, Accifauxpas and Whoopsiedangleplops are my Forte... Hehehe! I love making folk smile when I can. TTFNski!
      Inchie says:

      That’s very true, Paul. This morning, I was so down, things got on top of me. I’ve lifted a little however. Thanks. 👍🏻

  3. Lilly – Fort Thomas KY USA – I'm a published poet and essayist on women's lit, southern women's writers and have been a contributor to Know Theater Tribe original dramatic productions of evocative prose poetry. I also enjoy building, water color and acrylic. My work background has been from exec. secry to university fellow TA; advising;and consummate entertainment maven during a dream job as home maker! I traveled a great bit to and from my home state of CA and enjoy kayaking on the harbor and horseback riding. I love nothing better than an espresso and good music with a driving electric guitar! Ciao! (I'm also Italian and hot blooded!) This was written before cancer and the lock down! Now things feel quite different. I'm still me - kind of locked down with my two male family members! I will talk about both of them regularly and both are amazing people sharing the same DNA! I'm the "other" who slipped in and stayed for nearly 30 years when I planned on two! My life until I joined my family seemed both alarming and intriguing to so many people, I have been encouraged to write about the events that both formed, challenged and enhanced my state of being. Your kind attention is appreciated.
    Lilly says:

    Well hells bells my darling that really bites! It’s so infuriating how hard it is to get help. I do have an idea. With all thst is going on you should get admitted and wait for all the tests and procedures to be done on site! You are having enough symptoms to get admitted! Are you up for that?

    1. Inchy – Nottingham. UK. – 78 years of age, pretty ugly, short, bald, pot-bellied, in ill health. Decaying physically and morally. Mechanical ticker valve, Duodenal Donald, Saccades-Sandra, Arthur Itis, Hernia Henry, Hard of Hearing Hank, Bad eyesight Boris, Reflux Roger, Peripheral Neuropathy, Nerve Neurotransmitters Not-working Wendy, Bladder Cancer Chris, Stuttering Stephany, Haemorrhoid Harold, Shaking Shaun, Dizzy Dennis, FND, ... there are others, but I've tired myself out, now! Hehehe! Oh, then I had a stroke! Now awaiting Cataract & Glaucoma operations. Diabetes 2, Leg-Ulcer-Ulrich, Cartilage Chloe & Carole and am flat-bound. Tsk! Failures, Accifauxpas and Whoopsiedangleplops are my Forte... Hehehe! I love making folk smile when I can. TTFNski!
      Inchie says:

      Thanks, HRH Petal-Dove.
      The hospital are like mad-houses. A bed is scarcer than a Panda. 🐼
      If I could afford it, going private would help, but it would bankrupt me too.
      Currently waiting for transport to hospital, gal.
      Bless you! XXX💟

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