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07:00hrs: I forced myself to evacuate the bed. Parting was such sweet sorrow.
And an Accifauxpas as well!
I knocked all the pairs of sorted socks off the rack as I felt my way around in the dark. About 15 pairs fell and got mixed up. I worked through them, unmixing them. Huh! I turned on the light and started sorting them back into pairs. In doing so, I felt the catheter’s weight and realised I had not detached the night bag. Further
realisations followed… I’d not put the night bag on. The pouch emptied very phooy and was a deep, unhealthy-looking colour. Tsk! Emptied the bag and carried on with the sock sorting.
The need-entry call came from the intercom panel. It was Carer Ejaz arriving. He got the medications sorted, checked the urine colour, and
collated the bags for the waste chute. Then, as I did my back no good with stupidly bending to retrieve the fallen socks from the floor. Ejaz Phorpain-Gelled my hurting lower back, checked and barrier-creamed my acned areas.
I took some snaps from the balcony, then the kitchen. Very foggy, and it got worse as the day went on. Not that it bothered me, all snug in my prison cell… Flat!
In the end, the car park area, the fog was seeping into the balcony between the window frames, and the wooden floor panels were soaked through.
In this shot, through a window, the mist seemed to roll, yet there was no wind. Reminded me of the old black-and-white films.
Got the computer on, and CorelDraw to put last night’s and this morning’s photos on. Had to postpone this to go to the
. What a great evacuation! The easiest one for many a month! No squirties, not too solid, flowed… wait for this, it’s true… Painlessly! No bleeding either. ![]()
Back to the computer, and got as far as getting the snaps into the file; and a series, maybe 5-6 min-seizures, that were so fast and tiny of seizures hit me. Coming out of the last one, I could not do anything but sit and wait for the after-effects to clear. At first, I dared not even stand, sure I would fall or topple from the seat. Never had such a violent recovery before. It took me ages to feel confident enough to get up and wander around, using both sticks.
By the time I got along the mini hallway to the door, my balance had improved, even the dizziness. The only thing I was concerned about had nothing to do with seizures; it was my vision. Floaters galore in the cataracted, blurred left eye. And that feeling like you’ve got grit in your eye, causing much blinking. I made a note to be careful. When I returned to the computer, I was so happy with the recovery that I was
singing to myself. Not that it matters in the slightest, but I was singing ‘The Young Ones’ song by Cliff Richard. 1961, I think. The Shadows, who did background music, were fantastic. However, at this point, Cataract Katie made doing anything on the computer such hard work; so I assume there will be many mistakes in this blog that took 22 hours to complete.
It almost hurts sometimes when zooming in on anything. I couldn’t even see the cursor sometimes when typing in Word, CorelDraw, or WordPress. I continued, but as I mentioned, it was hard work. But in the morning, after clearing the brain to get this updated, things did improve. It’s the end of the day when
gets worse.
10:00hrs, I went to get some spuds cooking and make a brew of tea… a comical side to this, although it wasn’t all that funny. I boiled the water, and teabagged a mug. Filled a mug with boiling water and left the teabag to brew. Tittivated the oven a little, dropped the scourer, got the picker-upperer to retrieve it, lost my grip on the picker-upperer, tried to catch it, and hit my hand on the counter, and the knife shot up in the air and down on the floor. I then went into the wetroom to get the small picker-upperer that I keep in there to help get the protection pants on, and picked up the scourer and the long picker-upperer. Taking the short one back to the wet room for later use. Back to the kitchenette, and realised I’d filled the other mug with boiling water, and put the teabag into that too! So, I washed the mugs and started brewing again. Third time getting it right. A drop of milk in after it had brewed, and feeling rather contented at my not getting all uptight about things, I picked up the mug of tea…
and lost my grip. This most annoyed
and a slightly more violent reaction to this Accifauxpa! Self-lambasting, etc., Huh!
The intercom sounded, but stopped before I could get there. I waited a few minutes, but they did not try again. Then, I realised they (Amazon) might have left the parcel down in the foyer. So I hobbled out of the flat to the lift; neither was coming up, so it looked more likely that the Amazon driver had phoned; it would have been dropped down there in the foyer.
Sure enough, I found two parcels on the table. One for me with the torch, and one for number 53, I gathered them both and dropped 53’s at her flat. No response to knocking, so I left it near, but not in front of, the door for her. I like to be a help when possible.
Back in the lift and pressed the floor 12 button. The lift stopped, and I got off – but it was on the ground floor! How was that? What did I do wrong? Ah, well, back in the lift and up to my floor, back in the door, with my stability poor. Oh, that rhymed. Hahaha!
Opened the box and hand-cranked the torch, and got an intense beam. The crank felt stable, but with no sunshine around, I don’t think the mini solar panel will charge the torch up at all. Then, I left the torch on the kitchen window to see if the solar panel on it worked. I think not today (@
fog) with the fog seemingly getting thicker out there.
Back on the blog to work out where I was up to, and what I was possibly doing before the delivery was made. It took me a while.
Carer Mizra called. He gelled my lower back, and gave me some painkillers, and Peptac, took of the socks and foamed legs, and put fresh socks on me.
I blogged for a couple of hours, not very productively. Then off to make another brew. It seemed to me that the fog was finally getting a little lighter.
Made a brew,
belatedly changed the calendar clock. I started the Ode-writing. This was, for some reason, actually hard work, which is a rarity. I imagine the reason is
that it’s getting blurrier again, it’s later, and I’m getting tired.
Ejaz teatime call. Medications, and a short, quick natter. He seemed tired himself. His cough is still with him, as well.
I could not manage any more time on blogging; my eyes were so much worse.
I started prepping the meal, taking two shots of the view from the kitchen windows. I put them on, out of order. I’m very good at doing this. The bottom one was the first taken, which came out a little like crazy art. Is that the word? The top one was much improved. ![]()
I got the nosh finished and served up. A very nice one.
Tomatoes, potatoes, some tasty, but sticky, Danish Blue cheese, and pieces of pork pie. Delightful caramelised red onion pickle, all went down well!
Back to my usual cock-ups with the late evening photograph taking of the dark night.
I’d set Kodak Tim 2 to Night-Landscape and did my best to keep the camera steady as I snapped away, hoping for decent photos.
I don’t think I succeeded.
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07:00hrs: I was woken and cheered up when my Carer, Ejaz, arrived.
The day was done, and night had fallen.
What’s been going on? How, when did, what did I do?
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Then I was off to the Porcelain Throne… Oh, dearie me… # I did it again!
It took a snap from the kitchen window.
they were and buy some for myself. I imagine they had a stronger effect on me than cannibals would.
I turned on the news and the computer to finish the last of Thursday’s blog.
I made an earlier-than-usual meal of sorts. Ready-made roast potato skins with cheese, adding a dollop of Leicester cheese on top of each potato. Ate it, and was overcome with instant tiredness.
The Ocado delivery arrived. 
I took the growths off of some red spuds I had, and got them in the oven to cook slowly. This makes the skins/jackets of red potatoes seem thicker, and when I dollop on the gorgeous-tasting no-butter butter
when serving up, it does not run away; the skins contain it and thus taste extra special. The blue Stilton cheese, although like many things has lost much of its taste,
was compensated for with the addition of some mushroom ketchup with a drop of good-quality light soy sauce. These two ingredients go very well together and add flavour to Irish and/or vegetable Stews, even soups.
s. Sorry if I’ve already used it. Looks like the sun is shining toward the end of the car park.
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I took a snap of the wonderfully hued view from the kitchen window. Nice. Made a brew and got the computer on.
Carer 2nd call. He put a soluble paracetomal in my bottle of water, Hey, Presto; a shower from the bottle to outmatch Rome’s fountains! Well, it shot up about five feet in the air.
The Iceland delivery arrived. The driver took the bags to the hallway, and I moved them into the kitchen. Then got them sorted out as best I could, I
was rushing a bit, not wanting to make a mess and lose more time, and still had to get the ablutionalisationings done and get dressed.
I still had to get the Khagoule and dressing gowns hand-washed. I did the dressing gowns first, they are harder to hand-wash and took me yonks to get done and hung.
But it had to be done.
tonight, since it might freeze on the balcony overnight. Busy-Busy!
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I recall opening the computer to check on dates, times, and a list of things needed to take with me to the Hospital EENT.
Then moved the four-wheeled walker into the hallway and made sure I’d got nibbles, a bottle of water, and the paperwork needed in the bag.
Protection Pants was excruciating, and the swollen legs made genuflecting even more painful
urine looks terribly dark in the tube.
would likely be good. A cardiac Doctor carried out a question-and-answer interview with me.
This, on the left, was taken clandestinely from the first cubicle I was in.
the size of my right leg. Saying the left one was bloated, but the right one was dangerously so. An appointment will be made with a Diabetologist.
brou
When I got in the ambulance, I rang the number, and it was Carer Dilon. I told him I was on my way home and would be there in 20-30 minutes.
inside the ambulance on of dark night. This one on the left was at the front entrance to the QMC, Derby Road end.
I’ve no idea where we were, but it was about half an hour later, as the rain came on heavier, almost musically playing a tune on top of the ambulance. When I took this snap, I didn’t expect it to turn out like this.
But too tired to risk cooking. So, I made a cold nosh. Marmite sandwiches and some cheese curls. Enough to satiate my hunger.
I worked through until now – 04:42hrs – honestly!
bit of a failure, wasn’t it? So, I tried again. I had another go at getting a decent one this time. Ah, this was a much better effort.
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bag. Balance exercises, and into the kitchen to take a snap of the view on offer. It looked a little dank in the kitchen on this snap.
depressing outside, too. The intercom buzzed, and I let in my Carer, Ejaz. Who arrived, gave me my medications, and emptied the nocturnal catheter bag… I heard him calling me, and hobbling to the wet room…
alert button, and Ejaz went into the room and took over the call; I was already panicking. They do not handle floods; we have to ring 0115 2222. So, Ejaz did. They were not open. We tried, but there was no answer on the General Inquiries number. Tried the Repairs number: 0115 9555. AI message: We are open between 8:30hrs and 17:00hrs.
The dressing fell of the arm again. I’ll leave it off now, it looks like it’s getting a lot better. I’d put some peas in the slow cooker many hours ago, and after tasting some, I got the potatoes in the oven, and went to close the computer; I might as well, not getting much done.
department. It left me semi-confused; it said the electrician I had requested will be calling this evening, between 18:30 & 22:30hrs. This will be classed as an emergency repair. Baffled, I wondered why they had called an electrician and not a plumber. I assumed this was an e
reading this blog – Hahaha!). There were not many left, and even fewer after I’d picked out the bad ones from the Asda bag. I removed the black-spotted spuds and binned them.
A last effort with the now-working-again Kodak Tim 2.
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Within minutes, the intercom sounded as I snapped a photo of the unchanged yet calendar clock. It was Carer Ejaz.
picked up some dropped overnight items. He checked the medication drawer while I took the first shot of the late-morning view from the kitchen. After Ejaz departed, I noticed the sun breaking through behind the two buildings.
I went to the kitchen for a safety check and spotted a rainbow. Not a string one, but beautiful all the same, and I took a snap of part of
it. Then noticed how much higher the rainbow went, and I could not get all of it by a long way into the frame.
I found another Furry for the day. I may have used it earlier, but I don’t think I did.
cloud colouring was so different and almost artistic. Still see some sun over the horison, and the various shades it casts actually took me back to my early 20s. And a buxon lass, name of Mavis, a bit of a brilliant artist; water painting was her forte; amongst other activities we shared. She had thick thighs, a willingness and liking for… But never mind that, my mind strayed offline then at the thought of her. I’d love to tell you more, but it might depress me, at the fact that she is now only a much-missed memory. Hehe!
Derious moment here for a few seconds. I’d not made many memory notes on the pad, spending too much time trying to catch up. But when I consulted them, it was impossible to read them with both eyes, obviously with the left cataracted eye, but even when I blocked the left eye, I had trouble seeing with the so-called right eye. Did you follow that? I didn’t.
I put the potatoes and peas in the oven and took two snaps of the evening view to the right, then to the left of the kitchenette window.
They came out surprisingly decent for me, and I think I went into a relatively superior
I baked some mini-potatoes and added cheese on top of each half of a spud. On the tray, I added some vinegar and fried onions. With three tasty Solowka bestsilesia sausages. Plus a pot of lemon meringue dessert.
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Morning snap – I got up late, and this is the major Whoopsie of the day coming up…
Balcony in the drizzle & mist
Not sure why I took this one of the open fridge?
All my things on the sink had been either knocked off or moved…
I found some of the items on the floor at the side and back of the WC. No way could I risk bending down again, so I left them there. Then I realised I had been bending when I collapsed, putting the teabags in the bin bag. Not sure what that indicates.
The peas had been in the slow cooker for about eight hours now, on the lowest setting. I heated some faggots up in onion gravy and added the peas.
A crusty baguette… Let the feast begin!
I didn’t get there in time!
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medicationalisationing of my inner and outer extremities. Totally, at that time, I got dressed and went into the kitchen to take some
shots of the view on offer from the kitchenette window. Again, hoping to take a decent one at least.
Got on the computer, but ran into complications again. From MS Word, CorelDraw and Google. No idea why things were acting up like they were. So many aspects were misfiring. Space bar not working, then came on again. CorelDraw froze. I got a message from MS re: Excel, but could not grasp the technicalities, so closed the window and then all the others and left it for a while before trying
to boot again.
I took this snap of the slowly lightening sky. It was not a bad one this time. Compared to what my one eye saw and how the picture turned out. To say I was feeling so low and in a fair degree of depression, I noted this. I reckon I was convinced the computer had thrown in the towel, angry at all the failed promises of help that never
arrived, and had resigned myself to it. Back to the computer and turned it on. This time, noticing the external drive thingamajig was flashing away at a fair pace. Took a snap of it, I’ve not got the foggiest idea why. The computer booted up, and the working light continued. I think it might be MS Excel and Word updating something?
attention was interrupted by a text message on my mobile phone. Ah, hopefully that will be the night catheters ordered by my Carer last Wednesday. (It was).
The District Nurse arrived. I’m always glad when this happens. She’d come to check on my right leg and 
listings.
Then I made up a meal of crisps and opened a can of pork hock. It had a ring pull, which I pulled. The result was a cut finger, well, a cut thumb.
Cheesy Curls, some cheese, and put the meat on a tray.

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bent down to retrieve the absonded items…
scratched my right knee on the same bit of the lid. Naturally, I laughed it all off, of course.
I hobbled into the kitchen, oblivious to my memory loss, to take a couple of Kodak Tim2 photos of the dark morning view from the window.
time to get some better results than of late.
I really got carried away with the wordlist reclamationing. That’s the wrong word, innit?
Something seemed either missing or different on this snap taken from the balcony of the end car park. But, what? Got back to the word listings.
Then wider and a little higher, and the fire alarm went off! (I thought)
accord. I do feel such a fool! One more effort, with the small cloud above seemingly bombing those below with little puffy clouds. Haha!