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Late morning, an act of war on my body & mind was enacted,
Anne Gyna, Shaking Shaun, Toothache Tiffany declared!
Earlier things went well, I had not despaired,
The whole tale will be revealed and detailed…
Fair to say, it was later partly attenuated,
When they came, I don’t recall being seizured…
But depleted, tired, physically defeated…
Had to sit down, I felt so drained,
Fell asleep, my slumber, Ejaz awoken,
I remember not of what we had spoken,
Off to sleep, 2 more hours, again I was woken,
Time to get this untouched blog written!
Unfortunately, I was still feeling tattered,
Back to kip, this got me so aggravated…
All I’d done was abluted and medicated,
Hope I didn’t miss a call that I expected,
The neurologist, Covid-flu jabs to be inoculated?
Toothache Tiffany, Anne Gyna defeated…
My high pain-level ability was resisted,
Then ‘High-Mode-Horis’ visited!
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Worra flipping day!
I woke late and felt tired but not particularly down mentally. I decided to get the ablutionings done, which turned out to go like this: Very well. The Precelain Throne first. Constipation Conrad is back in charge again. ‘Fully’ in charge. It took a long time for the evacuation to start.
I got a bowl of water and dettol and stood in it to soak the feet while I did my teggies, cleared my nose, sprayed the eyes, and olive-oiled the ear-holes.
Then dried the feet, washed the bowl, and got on with the shaving. As far as I could tell, there was only one tiny nick under the bottom lip.
Did a slow, thorough washing of the body where I could reach, dried off and cut my fingernails.
Applied the Barrier cream, Foam Spray, and Antiseptics, then got the aftershave and deodorant splashed all over my muscular, young, and trim body.
As I collected my slippers to take for Ejaz to put on for me and left the wet room, Ejaz arrived. The
fractured knee I woke up with was hurting a fair bit, but it soon eased. Ejaz checked the body for me. It was just Cetreben creaming needed for the left and right ankles from
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as a bit of fluid leaking, but nothing to fret about. After Ejaz had monitored the highly acceptable BP returns on the Health Checks, I handwashed the brick-red nightgown. After rinsing and disinfecting, I hung it to dry in the wet room.
At this point, I was doing well, considering, then as I got on the computer… Then the sudden attacks from the three ailments hit me all at once. I’ve never had this before, and it shook me a smidge, so I abandoned the computer, turned it off, and just had to sit down for fear of Dizzy Dennis having me over in the tall chair. I moved into the £300 second-hand shop-bought, c1966, moth-eaten, bedraggled, grotty, cringingly beige-coloured, much-dilapidated, crumb-containing from my nocturnal nibblings, bug-ridden, itch-inspiring, not-working recliner. My head was spinning even just sitting there,
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showing off her stabbing pain-giving skills (on and off
all day), and the worst of the three at that time, that was
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I used far too much of the £599.00 per 100ml toothache pain relief spray. I even took an extra Codeine 30g, and
later, with no pain relief attained, I took a Co-Codamol tablet I bought from Chemist’s 4U on the web.
Then I drifted off into an absolutely, totally, wonderfully satisfying sleep, and had a so pleasant dream. I really believed I was back with Grizelda and engrossed in carnal activities like we used to. It was a short dream, but memories are precious.
Regrettably and lamentably, Carer Ejaz woke me up, just when the dream was at the stage of Grizelda and I… No, I’d best not say. But I could have spat! Hehe!
I don’t think I fully came back to reality, and when I did, Ejaz was asking questions ten to the dozen,
was swirling in my head,
giving me terrible grief painwise. I fear I couldn’t understand what Ejaz was talking about, but I don’t think I left the recliner during his visit, and he seemed content to go. It’s harder for him on a Sunday, cause of the scarcity of buses.
No sooner had Ejaz gone than I was in agony with
leaking and sending electric shocks up the right leg as far as my groin.
On the plus side, at long last,
had eased off, and she started to attack with more extended periods between them… not that I appreciated this at the time, because
was now hurting through so many teeth, I dared not make a brew of anything hot, or drink the chilled spring waters. Then, just keep me interested, I started getting flow-back pains in my bladder, I imagine, through not
drinking enough liquid. I gave up on sleep.
I had a small mug of tea and let it get colder, then I got back on the computer. I was struggling all the same, as usual lately.
My concentration was not good, and I was making errors in CorelDraw graphics. Additionally, I was constantly being corrected and reminded of my mistakes by Grammarly, which almost annoyed me.
I gave up on blogging and went onto the balcony to take a couple of shots of the beautiful skys to the right, then left of the views on offer. The wind was still mighty
out there. I didn’t scar my legs on the Wheelchair footrests again, though. Hehe! Although I did manage to trap the same finger as yesterday in the sliding glass door. Tsk!
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giving me grief now. Dizzy Dennis disappeared almost. Anne Gyna just paid me a short visit, and she’s getting easier each time.
I finally got the Ode completed. Hurrah! It’s not one of my best. I’ve just reread it. Taking so long on it, and the lack of concentration didn’t help, and as fr making so many mistakes, I’m not surprised.
Sorry about this, I did my bestest.
I missed this one off. I’m not sure when I took it, but it is, without a doubt, a photo of my once-beloved tree copse on the lower field, opposite the prison cells, or rather, opposite the block flats where I currently reside. Haha!
Just after Ejaz had left for his teatime call, I took this snapshot of the view from the kitchen window.
An eerie one?
Back on the blog until just before Ejaz’s last visit.
He saw how I looked and sounded a lot better than earlier. I asked him to call the District Nurse and Dentist in the morning for me.
I got the food prepped and eaten.
I’d love to know how photographs taken and seen on the view screen of my Kodak Tim 2 camera can simply disappear by morning when it comes to adding them to the blog. I think three went AWOL today. One of the injured legs, taken by my Carer Ejaz, the picture of my meal, and a shot of the end of the car park. I seem to have acquired this skill over the last few days. How? Why? Who do I blame
? Or maybe
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? Or can I convolutedly lay the blame on
? Old age? Possibly
? Ah, could the culprit indeed be
; water on the brain?
I imagine I’m just going bonkers.
Hehe…! Hahaha! Yes, that’ll be it!
I Expect Things To get Better…
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Oh, that’s wot Starmer said! Hehe!
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The moment I woke up this morning.
These two were taken this morning by Carer Ejaz.
Blown if I remember what he said, but it made me laugh as he took a snap as I was putting back on a nightshirt after he had Barrier creamed where needed on his body-check. Bless him!
Later, I went onto the balcony to take this shot of the Citrus Walk end car park. Nice parking.
The rain started later on.
The wind was howling near lunchtime.
The rain eased of later on.
Followed by my twisting the fractured knee as I turned with the stick, and dropped the dam thing again! This time, I did fetch the Picker-Upperer.
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‘Level of music playing at the same time in Porangahau’
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06:00hrs: Removed the nocturnal catheter pouch and made my way to the
limited saneness of mind, with my right leg leaking fluid yet again, & the fractured knee in pain.
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I may be bleeding and painfully limping,
He noted that the foot and ankle were looking better and took this snap on the left. On his last call of the day, we found that the leg’s Lymphoedema was leaking again. If it is in the morning, he’ll inform the district nurses. Not that either of us thinks that it will do us any good. We must try.
I’ven’t got up so late in many a month. 07:15hrs. I was doing the ablutions and on the Throne when Ejaz arrived to sort me out. Glad to report that Constipation Konrad has lost some of his grip on the evacuations; still needed input to get moving, but once it started, it was easy-peasy.
Ejaz sorts the prescription medications drawer.
Made a brew in the little mug.
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misery of losing Nurse Christina, with her charm, compassion, wit, and caring nature. Hristina is sadly missed already.
Carer Ejaz, on his last call, pointed out that the left foot, in particular, had swollen, and I was experiencing pain under
the middle right toe again. The left toes had sort of warped. The foot top & ankle had blown up and were a smidge tender. He said if they were the same in the morning, he’d call the Community nursing number and inform them of the situation. Bless him.
End car park.
Food repetition & cock-up


Marmite roast potatoes, cheesy bread rolls spread with Marmite, and Solokow Polish sausages. Eaten with a bag of Marmite crisps! Lovely!
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I took a snap of the end car park and the front car parks from the balcony.
not a good one. For the front one, I opened a window to take it. Trapped my finger closing the window mechanism.
Made a small mug of extra-strong Typhoo tea, and updated the clock calendar. The hearing aids are working again!
I pretended to tidy up the Carer’s desk with quite a few nibbles and medications scattered around.
see me. Sadly, with confirmation that she will no longer be
calling on me. Sob! Krudnuts! I could have cried. She’s called in to tell me this devastating news and give me two bottles of Krakus concentrated beetroot borscht. Bess her! The NHS have hired a private firm to take the blood now, and tomorrow will be their first call. A depression should have arrived then by rights and circumstances, but the kind thought of her coming to let me know herself, and with the wonderful gifts, it was weirdly only
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25 minutes spent on the Porcelain Throne this morning.
Ejaz graded the urine in the nocturnal pouch, then emptied it for me. He’s a good lad. I’d be lost without him calling. Ejaz then helped me with the BP checks, ensuring the Arithmaphobia had allowed me to write the correct numbers for each item in the Excel list.
I popped out on the balcony to take a snap of the end car park on Citrus Way, through the window. It didn’t come out well.
disinfectant for me to wash my tootsies in and departed on his way.
use large kitchen towels to dry the feet on, using the picker-upperer to dry them off.
I took a snap catching the shadows made as the sun rose from behind the flats. It reminded me of a castle casting its shadow.
Then, to avoid making of bigger mess on the blog, I phoned Sister Jane. As I rang off, depressing Darius arrived and has stayed with me all day, up to now.
I reluctantly got the computer booted to try and force myself of of this Depression Darius mood.
I got the bread out to defrost and set about making a vegetable stew, of sorts… or something of that nature. Casserole? Soup?
Result!
Nice, all the same.
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Carers desk.
Rubbish bags.
Washed nightshirt hanging to dry
A murder of crows.
Regaining their territory. Young ones searching for carrion in the end car park. All part of parent training.
A much-belated start on this blog.

And that was only a fleeting morning visit.
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I hobbled into the wet room for a fruitless and movement-free evacuation. Still, there was nothing to clean up. Hehe! The other three visits of the day were all the same. An extraordinary amount of wind escapage, but no movement from the innards, torpedo-wise. Mmm!
I got stripped and ready to tackle the medicationing and have a good scrub-up, and Carer Ejaz came.

Can’t recall taking this.
Ejaz, on his teatime call, spotted that the burgers in the fridge had sell-by dates for today.
I tried to sort out how to take the wheelchair pads on and off. Hehe! Not the foggiest idea!
Bootifull!
An amazing sky tonight.
Humph! Thank heavens for Ejaz coming.