Inchie Today: Thursday 19th March 2026

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06:15hrs: The rib injury was bad to start with. Large intakes of breath, coughing, laughing, all hurt. Pouch taken off. I took a snap of the morning kitchen view.
Any of the following may be out of sync, for vagarity and confusion spread their wings. Until , when the electrical and technological problems all arrived one after the other. I panicked and rang Jenny, my Angel, to ask her to please call the computer man in the morning. As per usual, her logic and understanding were perfect. She read the stress in my voice. Calmly telling me to turn everything off until morning and try again. Which I did, and it came back on. Albeit with different, too small icons that I struggle to see. At least now I can cross my fingers (well, I can’t actually, but I can figuratively) and see how it goes.

Thanks to Jenny. 🤎

Whatever is under my man breast that appeared yesterday, the top picture taken by my Carer Ejaz, this morning, showed a great improvement, and the bleeding had stopped altogether. I can’t say the same for the rib cracking. This remains a blinding, blooming nuisance. I can’t see any bruising at all. But when it happened, I was bending to retrieve a dropped remote, and felt pain and heard a sort of grinding noise. I think it must have been a rib causing the problem. It is the same today (Fri), the slightest bend, stretch, even when I press down on the walking stick it hurts. Yet not moving, sitting down, unless I stretch my arm out or up, there is no bother? Which is excellent, because I’ve got a Little Inchies fungal lesion going through agony as well, from the refitted Catheter tube.  
No more moans, I promise: well, I’ll try. Haha!

Belatedly made a start on Wednesday’s blog. Talk about a backlog, I’ve got an ever-increasing backlog of backblog blogs to do. 😄

Carer Rashid changed the leathery, crocodile-like legs. Well, more ankles now. Foamed them and rubbed in ointment in the cracks.

The sun broke through as it rose behind the prison, offering me a photo opportunity. Oh, prison? I meant to write block of flats. Or did I?

Ejaz was pleased with how the hand injury was now healing and was now awaiting the scab to fall off.
He offered to pick it off for me, jokingly, of course.

Then the computer froze!
First, as I was in CorelDraw, which often does this to me. I knew it would not let me save the work I’d done. Depressing, more time lost! I could not close the programme either. Cursing and praying it would come back on, I turned off the power. 
Gave it ten minutes or so, and rebooted.

Opened CorelDraw… message told me this file is not saveable – you can work on it, but not save your work – something like that. So, I closed it again.

Then I turned off the computer properly and restarted Windows. What a mess. All the widows’ desktop icons were so minuscule that it was impossible to identify which was which. All off again.

All on Again. The icons were even smaller this time. I upended CorelDraw, this time it opened the last edited without any warning messages… Ahahaha! Great.
An hour later, all the things became unresponsive, bar the mousse, but clicking on anything on the CorelDraw page produced various different, some never been seen before options, but never the binding box.
I decided that I’d close CorelDraw down, and ring Angel Jenny to ask her to call Asif, the computer man, for me, as this problem, or I should add solution, was well out of my reach. I opened Google to search for advice…
ARRGH!
I could not input any text in the search bar at all!
Clicking to open programme icons, nothing!

I turned everything off again and walked away.
I was distraught to say the least. Angry, Frustrated, Sorry-for-myself… pathetic really.
Depression grew even stronger now. I felt so low, and yet I took two photographs as I wandered hobblingly around the cell… no… the flat.
My mind went from raging to almost crying, and a loathsome self-hatred joined in. I felt what I was, I’m afraid, so sad!

Later, after a good while of musing and confusing myself, I returned to the computer. I knew it was not going to work, yet still I gave it a go. Huh!
This time, the desktop icons were all over the place, and still too tiny to identify. I tried Google, Notepad, Corel ’rotten’ Draw, and MS Word. And the screens started to shudder a little. But this could have been due to Galucoma Glady’s, Cataract Katie, or my being in such an uptight condition, my Neurotransmitters. Turned everything off yet again and left it. 

I called Jenny 🤎 to ask her to please contact Asif for me. The connection was not good; I struggled with the fast speech and an echo on the line.
I think Jen advised me to turn everything off, which I had been doing for the last three hours, Hahaha! Jenny said she leaves hers off overnight, and it can come back on in the morning. I felt so tense, so I decided to do that and try it in the morning.

To keep my mind off of the computer, I got the meal prepped. Ejaz called and served it up. But it feels all wrong eating with someone sitting there on their mobile phone, making a report. Nothing wrong with it, but for years I’ve lived and eaten on my own, and the habit of eating while watching a TV programme is part of my way of preparing for sleep, I suppose. Also, I forgot to take a photo of the nosh.

After finishing the meal, after Ejaz left, saying he would lock the door for me, bless him, I went to wash the pots, and just had to take these snaps of the latter part of the sunset.
A warmth emanated from the view, with maybe perhaps including a hint of a threat? 

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Can it get any worse?
Have I been given a curse?
Why am I penning this verse?
Cause my problems are diverse?
BrainStorm, thinking in Morse?.
Who can help with my annoyances?
Starmer, Einstein or Zeus?

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11 thoughts on “Inchie Today: Thursday 19th March 2026

    • 11 days in the Krankenhaus, well, two of them this time. I really think I can’t take much more. Only Jenny phoned, Ejaz forgot to send you an email as I asked him to when I go to the hospital or snuff-it.
      paramedics took me away.
      All the same promises of getting me help as on the last four hospital visits. This was a bit worserererer.
      I hope you are feeling betterer Sir.
      Oh, a right load of jobs to sort, food to throw away from the fridge, and no one did a safety check for me and found in the slow cooker, 11 days plus concrete remnants of some whole baby potatoes. The pan in in the sink, I’ll leave it there with soda washing up liquid and bleach. It may be rescuable by about November. Hahaha!

      • What a time of it. People are so fickle these days on promises too. I’m fine by comparison, I have none of your battles which put me in awe of your resilience. ❤️

      • Bless you, Paul. It is getting harder I fear. Cock-ups follow chase and harass me, I reckon. Hahaha! As we used to say “Gerroff!” Or similar.

  1. You posted a good ode and very nice pictures, in spite of the difficulties, Gerry. I hope the cracked rib gets better soon and that you have blessed weekend. 🙏💖

    • Cheers, Tim. Hope you are are okay. Just back from another trip to the hospital, well two hospitals,11 days this time. Trying to get caught up on my precious comments. Kind of you.
      Peace and Goodwill. 🙏🏻👍🏼🤎

  2. “Unrequited wants?” Great line from a great ode. Bruised ribs are terribly painful, as everything you do hurts. Beautiful sunset photos.

  3. A splendid piece of writing, Gerry. We are ever grateful for deep insight into the human condition. You are a modern James Joyce, quite seriously. Today’s blog is intricate and multifaceted. They are like a jigsaw puzzle with 10,000 pieces.
    Kindest thanks, mon ami!

    • Kind words, Sit Billum, thanks mate. Just back fron 11 days in hospital, wrote all about it in my last depressing blog. So much went wrong medically, emotionally and financially. ‘Read all abhaught it! Inchies worsed week and a bit ever. Owt go wrongable did. Forgive my lack of humour.
      Love to all at the Manor.

  4. What are we left with indeed, not much change out of a hard working life these days methinks Gerald.

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