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Suicide? I’ve resisted all acquiescences
Over-eating: What are my chances
What foods? I’m full of indecisiveness,
Marmite, baked potatoes with extra-strong cheeses,
Shortbread biscuits, keilassa, smoked hostages…
Sorry, Starmer, that should be smoked sausages,
Wandering eyes, keen on cleavages…
Which can have some disadvantages,
Dagger eyes, a smack in my gob are discouraging,
Nice thick thighs hold a dangerousness,
I try not to ogle, but I think this is wise.
Cause it does bring out the gagger-eyes,
I get excited, have to rest on the chaise,
I used to take the wrong medicine doses,
Now it’s the responsibility of Carer Ejaz,
I blame Starmer & his accomplices,
Thighs remain on my list of appetencies,
I crave to stop my obscurity & ambiguities,
Toilet on time? I’ve no control over my incontinencies,
The neurosurgeon anticipates my neurathenias,
I must no longer air my pathetic grievances,
My cartillages, Arthur Itis or my Charlie Horses,
Stop my self-pity, & curses,
Laugh at ex-barrister Starmer’s perfidies,
Oh, and order some more nebulisers,
Try to listen as Herr Starmer mythologises,
In an effort to impress & get backhanders,
I give up my hopes for a UK ptochocracy…
I’ll try to forgive Starmer for his profligacies,
His lies, conceit, and his peccancies,
Stop worrying about HMGs justices,
I’d love to have something that stirs my juices,
A cuddle, compassion, hopefully some petrissages
Free myself of my inconsequentialness,
To regain a degree of my past indomitableness,
Maybe, try to accept my ineffectualness,
But hang on at all costs to my equitableness,
Am I going insane? Will I give up & join the quitters?
Can I cope with any more of life’s helices?
I’m surrounded by so much inhumaneness,
Or has inhumaneness changed? I see the difference,
Compared to when I was fit & had youthfulness…
Logicality, hope, awareness and sensibility,
One thing I’d like to see go, specifically…
Is my late-life depressionability!
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I have to be ready from 11:30 for my 13:30 appointment. Getting home could be a long job. So, I’m not blogging tomorrow; I might not even get this one done in time. Messy!
Got to get everything sorted to take with me, finish the ablutions, then get something to eat.
I’ll see if I can get time on Friday to catch up.
TTFN.


Handwashing
Tea
Evening mug
Afternoon tarmacing progress,

Early Food Delivery



Wednesday Morning.
No stand-alone blog available.
Due to spending so long at the hospital.
06:10hs; Woke up and got up without any resistance from the body or brain.
Took the Health Checks early, but it was not too good.
I’ll try to get some updating done, but I’m not sure when I’ll be able to do it and post it.
I spent an hour gathering things needed to take with me and listing them so Ejaz can make sure I’ve done it right. I could not find my shoes. I’ll ask Ejaz.
The Ocado order arrived. I made some daft mistakes on this one, which seems par for the course. I swapped the catheter to the other leg, the left one, which needs access to the surgeon, and the leg started bleeding when I took off the top strap.
Ejaz arrived, and boy, if ever someone was a saviour, he was this morning. He got my protection pants on. Took a second HC check and recorded them both. He found my shoes for me and got them on my feet.
Did a quick body check and barrier creaming session, then issued the medications.
Checked the list of things in the sit-down-on four-wheeled walker for me, all okay.
I thanked the lad, shook his hand, and insisted he have a nibble and drinkie in thanks for his help.
He is coming later to do the laundry. I’ll hopefully be at the hospital for I don’t know how long, and as they warned me, there may be a delay of up to two hours to wait for the lift home. My wait this morning was from 11:00hrs to 0130hrs!
Got this done up to here.
From then on, I kept emptying the catheter bag to make sure it just might last long enough… which of course it won’t. So with any luck, there will be a loo for me to empty the bag in while waiting about, and not take a dizzy-tumble when I have to bend down.
It was a crying shame I could not afford for Ejaz to come with me to the hospital.
TTFN.
Just about to switch off the computer, and realised the catheter bag was leaking!
On my long shirt, socks, shoes, and the carpet!
It was leaked from the top connection, and the bag around the exit valve had split open!
What a mess! And with the transport likely to arrive at any time, there’s no point in calling the nurses. They would not have arrived in time. I rang Warden Deana, who came up just as I’d fitted a new day catheter – but I paid the price of all the bending. Dizzy Dennis, Confusion Konrad, Shaking Shaun, and the mini-seizures started.
I was in a right pickle.
I checked the new setup; it seems to be leak-free. Just ‘Give-it-time’.
I have to be one of the unluckiest twits in Nottingham. Maybe further afield. Tsk!
TTFN.
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Colourful this morning.
Early morning view.
Problem after problem with the computer again.
Hearing aids packed up again!
I tried to get Grammarly to work again. Clicked on the use Google option – and got a screen…
Huh!
Nope!
Lost now.
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.
Cover
Left/right thigh instructions
Left & right toe & foot
Arm & wrist
Care instruction details.
Leg, Ankle & Foot.
Potato nuggets, sausage, garden peas, Milk Roll bread, and a Lemon & Lime yoghourt.
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This ‘Sod-’em-All’ mood, known for its ephemeralness,
mage to report. I emptied it into a bowl and took it to the WC for disposal. It was an excellent colour for once. The lightest it’s been for many a month. As I
Mega full, but so light. It soon darke
Tea.
Barrel replenished.
Planned a meal with tomatoes. Make some sarnies, and chips maybe?
Couldn’t eat it all. I ate all the chips, though.
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Early morning view
Looks like they are replacing or upgrading the old gravel path up to the park
Mobility contraption room.
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this morning. Took off the catheter night pouch. Like yesterday, I was unsteady on my plates-of-meat, balance not good, but for me at least, I’d got things together (I thought) more than usually for that time of the day.
I found myself at the kitchen window, taking shots. How I got there, why I was taking photos that were even worse than
usual. I’ll pass on that question. A faux-feeling that things were coming together overcame me, and I decided I may have time
before Carer Ejaz arrives, to have a quick bash at the ablutions. So, I did! Off to the wetroom, I poddled.
getting much better now. Then Phorpain gelled Arthur Itis’s knees. I’ll put the NHS gel on knee fractures later when the others have dried. I couldn’t do Carol and Chloe’s cartilage yet because the Phorpain needs to dry properly. I’ll ask Carer Ejaz to do them later. Nor could I bend down to foam the growing leather-like patches of
I applied the barrier cream underneath my arms, my groin and flabby belly. The application of the Germoloid to my rear end was lovely and cooling! Oh, Yes! I then realised that I’d taken far too long, and was past Ejaz’s usual morning visit time by 20 minutes. I thought maybe he had come in without ringing the doorbell and gone into the front room to sort the medications for me.
Blogging away, I thought I heard some machinery noises coming from outside, so I went on the balcony, taking Kodak
Tim2 with me to check. Noticing a sign on the bottom field near the entrance to the tree copse. I took a zoomed-in shot so I could read it; I wonder what they are doing.
I took another snap or two while making a brew of Co-op 99 tea from the kitchen window.
ahead. The second one was of the Chestnut Walk car park in front of the Woodthorpe Court, at Winwood Heights.
Hello, is that a fire I see?
I zoomed in on the next one.
Then still further in for this one.
Used the small mug this time. Checked on the garden peas in the slow cooker.
Got the tea next to the computer.
Garden peas, seasoned with vegetable flavouring and light soy sauce, with a bit of demerara sugar, Polish Country sausage, and some frozen Harry Ramsden chip shop chips.
Milk Roll bread sarnies, thickly spread with no-butter butter, with sliced tomatoes in them. 

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me. I was still sitting there, awaiting the torrent to stop as the door chime rang, and Ejaz came 
Then slightly to the left.
I won’t lose any memory or time in putting any of the others on. Bear in mind how low I was.
I ate well, at least. (Slurp-gobble)
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I got some potatoes and garden peas in the slow-cooker. I added some vegetable seasoning and a dollop of light Soy sauce. Then, I made up a bottle with spring water, grapefruit cordial, and soda water. Not too strong, but with the soda water added, it tasted a little tart and tangy.
All of these were taken from the balcony, through the glass. This one straight ahead.
To the right, the treetops of my greatly missed visiting tree copse in the bottom field.
Down to the right, the Citrus Grove end car park. Note the little red car on the chevrons?
Added some of my favourites
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The catheter pouch, before my nurse tended to it.
Morning view.
Forgot why I took this one.
HC equipment. High BP today.
Aha, got some of the Marmite & cheese puffs.
Too many drinkies. Even though
So tired, only just changed the date.
Copernicus sausage, Potato Rostis, cooked beetroot, tomatoes & cheesy bread rolls.



Did you notice? I’ve gorra a new Grim Reaper,
Early Morning fog

I did the teggies very carefully. Then had a shave using the new razors, carefully. No cuts, no droppages!
soap substitutes on my neck, I noticed
that it does visit me now and then.
handwash the Khagoule and hung it up to dry in the wet room. It was then that it dawned on me that I had not done the other freshenings & medicationings yet. No cursing or swearing at myself.
Back to check if I’d left the tap running in the kitchen, and at last, the fog was beginning to clear somewhat, slowly. 
Shortly afterwards, Ejaz came into the room. I tried to explain what had gone on with the ablution and CorelDraw problem, but I didn’t need to bother; he couldn’t understand what I was saying. But he set about sorting me out carewise, bless him. He gave me a Penicillin capsule. Asked if I needed other medications. I asked for Codeine, the lad Phorpain-gelled my back, and left leg’s Cartilage, Arthur Itis, and the Fractured knee. The right leg still has the compression bandaging on, which stopped me from having a shower!
NOSH MADE
Then returned and climbed into the bed, but there was no sleep. I tried for several hours, fruitlessly.
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Nocturnal urine, Ejaz gave it a 5.
When I made up the waste bags into one,
The Iceland delivery arrived, and the driver kindly threw the bag onto the kitchen floor for me.
Treats for Nurses, Carer, and me. Hehe!
No idea why I bought it, a mystery of Woodthorpe Court, with the hobgoblins, spectres, gnomai, phantasms, ghosts, the grotesque succubae, extraterrestrials, ectoplasms, & spirits.
Ah, Inchies treats these are.
Got the items needed into the fridge.
I filled up the Carer & Nurses’ desk with the nibbles.
Then, I refreshed the [posh biscuit barrels with some shortcake & shortbread biscuits!
Well stocked up with catheter fillers.
Ode hue to this one of the front car park.
Getting late now. Lovely hue to this one.
The Catheter box arrived, and I put it on the bed. To sort out when Ejaz has time, we need to coordinate. He didn’t have time today.
Ten minutes later, the Sharrows parcel arrived.
Another cracking snap from the kitchen.
Tasty!