Inchie Today: Wednesday 8th July 2026

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Of course, it was a dream, animated!
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Wednesday 8th July 2026
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Several properties have been evacuated after a large fire at a scrapyard in Nottingham

Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was called to Radford Road, Basford, on Wednesday at 10:31. Nottinghamshire Police said properties were being evacuated. Six fire engines and an aerial ladder platform are at the scene. People living and working nearby have been advised to close doors and windows as the fire has generated a large plume of acrid smoke. Properties evacuated as fire breaks out at scrapyard. The BBC reported the incident as being at a recycling centre on Radford Road.
The photos here and above were taken
from various websites. This last one of the group, taken maybe from a nearby house, is maybe the most dramatic one of them all? I could almost smell it!
Here are those I took from the balcony & kitchen.



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I rang Mr Kervis to advise him, as he asked me to, but didn’t get a reply when I tried on Monday.
I was in a bit of a tizzy at the time. An hour and a half away from ringing a taxi to get to the Doctor’s appointment, and all things happening, had to ring to change the delivery of the medical supplies, as they said it was coming today, at the same time as the appointment. I got that done, well, the Carer did.
Then the window cleaners arrived, nice lads. I needed a wash & shave and help getting dressed. Then remembered Mr Kervis and called him.
I was a little worked up at the time. I told him of the rebate had not yet reached the bank. He needs printed proof in the form of TSB bank statements; he told me to ring the bank and gave me their number.
So, I did. They were as helpful as a plastic colander would be in mining for coal. Nothing new there then.
I explained my situation, not too calmly, I admit. The lady said I have to go to the bank to discuss this. Refusing my request for the statement. I have to admit that in the midst of all the worries and failure to right wrongs, I was getting antagonised, bitter, incensed, offended, and even felt affronted by being told what to do in such a snotty way. ”You’ll have to…” That could have been worded less Hitleristically, commandingly. I would have thought?
IF I ever afford a Carer to go to the bank with me, find the fare for taxis there and back, and can avoid me 
not blowing my lid and having another stroke, seizure or heart attack, and get to the Snotty TSB Bank; will I keep my temper when I see the ignorant, uncaring, not-interested female that I spoke to on the phone, control myself?
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Things are now that bad, with tons of medical appointments that I cannot afford to go to until I sort out the bank online problems, British Gas, having booked a visit from a meter reader-checker, send more emails asking for a meter reading, and tells me my monthly payments are going up over 200%, and my arithmaphobia. Arthur Ritis, the new prong-tube-ended Catheter Contraption instructions have arrived, and the chances of that are approximately zero. After contacting the District Nurses, QMC A&E, Medical Navigator, & QMC Urology, I then complained to the PALS Board about not getting any information on which day and night bags to use, how often they should be changed, which ones are and are not compatible. Can Carers still change the day & attach the nocturnal bags? The only guidance I got from the hospital Doctor, not the first one, was that he could not get the new tube in but had two tries, I mean the second Doctor, or was he a Mr.? Who was on his way home, that the first one took me to see, and he took two tries and got it in on his second try; He said something like, the top grip pad must not come off, when it is due to be changed, you need Medical Alcohol to remove it. This pad held the new array grippers for two tubes.
That fell off the next morning! 
Anyway, the first people I contacted, the district nurses, confirmed they are not allowed to handle the new hook-ended Catheter tube. I explained I did not want that, just information and told her of my weary, scary, embarrassing visit when I was sent to A&E when the Catheter was blocked.
That was a medical emergency situation, they said. So I was told to get a taxi to the A&E. Told it would be roughly £15 each way. I mustered the last of my cash, adding coins to make the £30 needed. On the way to the QMC, we got stuck in traffic mayhem. Roadworks blocked the road, and traffic lights were out on the ring road. 

I waited approximately four hours before being seen, so the trip there cost more time of agony from the bladder, and £25.40, not enough to get a taxi home. But what followed was even worse. I won’t go into detail; it might have you crying. Hehe! Just a few reminders:
4-hour wait. Penile lesions squirted, causing urine and blood to spray. Ask where WC was, went, wet floor, not T-paper or paper towels. I added urine and blood to the floor. Back to the waiting room, getting lost en route. Told I’d missed my turn and to sit down. A bit of interest here, watch police arrest two youths sitting in the waiting room. The doc could not get a new tube in. Took me to another, a Mr The only highlight of the visit was that a nurse realised the four people were being picked up by hospital transport, and added me to the list, bless her! 🤎
Just think, the next time I have a blockage, I’ve got to go through that palava and cost in cash and time!
Combined, this likely caused my irritation with the banks and the
 arrogant lady.
Best say not more, nowt I can do, unless somebody has a fuse-grenade for sale cheap?
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Got home with Carer Ejaz. He was in charge of the payment money, as I always ask him to since the arithmaphobia hit me. As we made our way up to the flat, he pointed out that the first taxi charged £1.30 more than the second. Only a short journey, I was surprised he didn’t cut through up the hill near JS and avoid it. I assume that was the reason, a little wallet-swelling exercise I learned when I was working on the cabs.

T’was a long time ago. But not in Mexico!
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I flaked out when we got in. Ejaz asked me if I wanted a sucker from the freezer or a mug of tea. Kind lad. Issued the belated medications and had to go to his next call.

He helped with the questions from the Doctor, too. Thanks, Ejaz, mate. Don’t suppose I’ll see him much again now they have cut his visits to me down.
Another niggle to add to the incomplete tasks: worrying over the bank business and attitude, physical & mental ailments, depression, and frustration.
I’m not moaning, of course, just saying. Humph!
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I made a meal of delight; t’was so tasty,

Fresh peas, carrots, potatoes, Teriyaki,

For today, that was a tragicomedy…
Yet another day, that was so very busy,
3 callers, 4 phone calls, I was in a tizzy,
Then off to the Doctor’s surgery,
So very gladly, with Carer Ejaz with me,
First time in weeks, I was actually joyful,
I lost the plot here; the evening meal!
With bread, I ate every spoonful,
Licked the bowl, not being wasteful,
Then fell asleep, dream of an Angel…
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Until Care Mizra woke me up, but gently. He didn’t have long, but after putting on the nocturnal hook-ended Catheter pouch, he looked at some letters that needed attention. That was kind of him. Thanks, mate. Said he’ll try to find time to help me fill out the long 4-page EENT questionnaire for the pre-op check for the upcoming Cataract procedure. Cheers again.
Farewells exchanged, I collapsed on the bed.
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Worra day! But with some high notes.

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Thanks to ICC for allowing Carer Ejaz to perform escort duties to and from the doctors. I’d be over the moon if you could grant him some more calls on me. Things have gone downhill since he and Mizra rarely call nowadays.
His help, with the knowledge he has of my needs,  ailments and problems, proved priceless today.

Thanks again.
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To my mass of fans.
To both of them!
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Inchie Today: Sunday 5th July 2026

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Morning Clouds
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Last nights nosh
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Very nearly made the bed!
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SUNDAY 5th JULY 2026
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A bad night again. Kept waking repeatedly. Gave up at 05:30hrs, and got out of bed, painfully. Mainly due to the shaking shoulder and my left knee pain. Also, a call to the Porcelain Throne. Off to the WC and passed a messy, stinky dollop of wet poo, all done in seconds. As I was cleaning up the porcelain splashes, my left knee gave a sharp stabbing pain and gave way on me. Nothing new there.
I didn’t go down but caught the knuckles I burnt last night against the rails, as I  grabbed them so as not to go down. Back in the main room, I took a strong Oxycodone Hydrochloride painkiller capsule. I took the night pouch off and made up some bottles of water to keep the Catheter Contraption working. Had a good few gulps, but the day bag was not receiving any urine from the bladder. I admit this scared me a little – well, no, the thought of having to go to the A&E in a £15 each-way taxi, to get ignored, embarrassed and scowled at by the medics. Not all of them, just two.
Panic over 15 minutes later, when the wee slowly started dribbling into the pouch. Phew!
On the computer to finalise yesterday’s blog, and got it posted. Then started the Ode for today’s effort. It’s a shame that CorelDraw is not working on the new £850-plus-fitting computer properly. I hate digging into the files that the new computer lets me access old graphics. I’ve been conned again! Grumph!
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07:55hrs: Carer arrived while I was making a mug of tea and getting some corn flakes. Forgot about that. The lad gave me my medications, and I told him I’d taken the Oxycodone earlier. Also mentioned that I might be going to a home for Respite time. It’s not certain yet; I don’t know where or when, obviously. I’m telling you out of decency. Which is more than you do when all three extra-hour calls this week failed to come through, and the week before. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Then realised he was on his mobile. He disappeared for a while and returned… I tried again, catching his attention before he got on his mobile again… I said: I might be going to a home for Respite time. It’s not certain yet; I don’t know where or when, obviously. I’m telling you out of decency. Which is more than you do when all three extra-hour calls this week failed to come through, and the week before. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
He then asked When? How long for?
Then I felt a seizure coming on and looked at the clock in hopes of working out how long it was; it was 25 past. Carer was asked how long I was out for, and it did. I came around with the usual jerk and acid flux. Clock on the half hour. Asl Carer, how long was I out for? 2 minutes, he told me. I probably misread the clock then.

I asked for a Codeine, as the shoulder must have been rattling, shuddering, and hurting a fair bit. Then I MedPhorpainasked him to apply more Phorpain gel to the shoulder. Which he did for me. He muttered something from behind me as I was getting my two sticks for a balance test and hobbled around. Got the sticks stood up, and he was gone. The walk was a bit wobbly, but I’ve had worse after seizures before. Sat down for 15 minutes, then I went to the kitchen. It went well enough. So I got the kettle on to make a brew of Glengettie. Tasted a little off, but it wasn’t the milk this time. I reckon it was the acid reflux from the seizure that caused it. I have plainly not fully recovered from the effects yet. I sat down, took the mug to be washed, and was wobbling a bit, and my left fractured knee was giving way again. I got sat down again and stayed there for an hour or so. Feeling a little steadier now, but still unsteady when standing or walking? I hope the cause was the seizure and nothing new.
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Got back on blogging. I even found a way to get new photographs onto WP. I still cannot access the external box, but I can now get snaps on. The trouble is that I have to upload the photos one at a time from the SD card (when the new £850-plus, fitting-new computer gives me access, which is hit-and-miss) into MS Word. That has some basic editing on it, if needed. Then, save as a picture and convert to another format, in my Picture file. Then load them into WP one at a time. Life is not going well. But every little advancement helps. I’m not sure how I found out this works. The seizure after-effects seemed to help? Just the balance and knee are giving me trouble now.
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Going to have a sit down again, keep drinking to feed the Catheter, and maybe fall asleep… Oh, no, I won’t. The Carer is due back in about 20 minutes. Tsk! My 

stomach is rumbling again now. What next, a trip to the Porcelain Throne, methinks. No, my mistake.
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Midday Carer arrived. I was not in good nick mentally. I moaned about the new problems with the dentist and the Red Cross not being tended to, and asked him to watch me as I try to book the appointment as they asked me to do online.
I clicked the green Book Now swatch above. It took me straight to the booking appointment page…
Clicked the Book an Appointment tab.
It told me there were no appointments available.

Giving a number to phone them on.
Does reading about bad luck depress you?
It certainly gets to me that way!

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I’m not sure of anything now.

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The Carer, even after I explained about my distant nature and why, the seizure aftermath, just changed the subject every time. I was more confused than ever. I asked him to take some pot-noodles to the laundry sink.
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I might get a meal prepared. Unsure if it was a wise decision, as I felt well out-of-it for minutes, then it came and started all over again. Of course, I could make an appointment to see the neurologist at the QMC again.

Silly me, I forgot for a moment last time, and the first time I went to him. 2-year wait for the appointment. 4 minutes spent in his office. Told to send in a video of me in a seizure. Which took two months before a Carer was here at seizure-time, sent it to him. Not easy; he didn’t give me his email address. Carer Ejaz got it and emailed it.
3 months later, I sent it to him. Another 6 months on, I got a letter telling me they are signing me off their list… off? I didn’t really get on, did I?
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I’ll have a wash & shave then.
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Inchie Today: Saturday 4th July 2026

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SATURDAY 4th JULY 2026
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LAST NIGHT’S WONDERFUL SUPPER
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Maybe more of a verbal ramble,
  My thoughts were not refereeable,
Many errors, mistakes, regrettable,
Faults flowed, most non-reminisable,
My WC visits, all reminiscentable,
Many problems… none resolvable,
Two new ones, financial & rectal,

My mobile is no longer rechargeable,
I found one Accifauxpa, reprehensible,
Left my fungal lesion looking rhizoidal,

The new Catheter got in a tangle,
Hope you don’t find this too recremental!
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Just thought I’d use this old photo from 2018.
To warn anyone from using this crap company.
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Inchie Today: Thursday 16th July 2026

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Had Tuesday & Wednesday scary BP
returns came three months ago, they
would have been of concern.
But not now; Disappearing funds from
uncaring, Untrustworthy Trustees bank,

British Gas, Virgin Media, the Red Cross, my
 hooked tubed Catheter contamination, 
Premorbid Cognitive Impairment, the
unwanted return of Caracts & Glaucoma, 
Mega-Depression Darius, my TBI, and
increase & reclassification of my arms,
shoulders, back, & knee arthritis agony,
are of more concern.
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I meandered into the kitchenette.
With the sun rising from behind the building, it looked a little spooky in there.  Haha!
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Two more confusing letters were received today.
Confuses me anyway.
I put them down to investigate further later on; first off, to the WC.
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Emptied the
nocturnal Catheter pouch, which was rather fuller than normal. Then the Trotsky Terence Torrent evacuated. Smelly!
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Carer Akram arrived. Medications given. Phorpain gelling of the knee, shoulder, back and neck was done. He informed me that Carer Misra had booked the lift for the EENT cataract preparation procedure. I recall last time, and all the drops having to be put in the eye several times a day for a few weeks. Before the lasering operation could be booked and done. Most of the liquid ran down my cheek as I misaimed, onto my cheek and lip, then into my mouth, leaving a brown stain that was the devil to get off my lips and chin.
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The flat’s intercom was still down; I hoped this would not put off the British Gas engineer coming to check the meter and/or the Red Cross electrician checking the Health & Safety of the hospital bed today.
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I asked the next Carer, Andrew, (I think) to ring Easy-Link to try and get a lift for the Hospital visit at the mad-house, Nutall Hospital. He said he’d text them later. He was in a rush. I asked him to keep me updated. He confirmed that the lift for the EENT was one-way only. I may have got the venues the wrong way round here, sorry. The lift is only on the outward journey, and we must get a taxi back. Christ, more money gone!
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I wonder if I can get a private cleaner, who is known for doing a good job, who is prepared to help me with dressing and washing, giving medications, creaming, etc., and how much would she or he cost? It might be cheaper than having the Carers? Just a thought.
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A VISIT FROM THE WARDENS
They explained that Mr V had arranged the paper statements to be delivered to me. He will examine them to see if anything dodgy is happening.
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Rushing now, just realised it is so late, the England match starts in half an hour. I’m hoping for the best.
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The Carers’ monthly bill arrived. With an extra £33.32 added, marked as an Adult Care and arrangement fee. Knowing me, it may have been on all the other bills, but who knows for sure. Not me.
Another letter from the gerontophobia-ridden, Oligarchal, rule-the-roost, sod you and all customers, British Gas. Who have twice in two days confirmed that an engineer will call today to check the meter when the Carers phoned to check, they will.
It is now 19:10hrs, no signs of him.
I intend to make an Ode about British Gas, but time stops me, or lack of time. Such a busy day again.
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Inchcie Today: Friday 3rd July 2026

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FRIDAY 3rd JULY 2026
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Yet another bad night for sleep, well, for staying asleep. Always waking up.
I needed the Porcelain Throne, and almost went over getting there. My balance was bad, and the swollen toes, feet, and legs made things feel worse. Constipation is in charge on this first visit. But it was the only one that way, and I took the four more visits in two hours. Each one is getting a degree even sloppier, wetter, splashier and stinkier. They stopped quite sharply. Hope that the trots don’t start again later, if I can encourage, bribe, or beg the Carer to take me to Sherwood for bread, tomatoes, lemon wafers, and, most vital, get some cash to pay the window cleaners, toenail cutter, etc., who won’t take the card.
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8: 10hrs, Carer Mizra arrived. He noticed the things I’d knocked over and dropped earlier, while I was making up the bottles of mineral water mixed with soda water, on the floor. Cleaned, picked them up without my having to ask. He’s a good help. Medications given, shoulder Phorpained, my privates barrier creamed. Catheter emptied and colour & amount recorded. I asked Carer Mirza to turn on the booster button on the metre in the outer hallway on his way out.
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Throne visit number seven, the last of the day, was just water with bits in it. Oh, the stink – Cor!

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Midday Carer arrived. I asked how long he was doing this visit, in case it was being done as catch-up for an hour & a half, but that didn’t come again. One hour, he said, after consulting his beloved, nearly always in use, mobile. I launched a forceful appeal for him to escort me into Sherwood for food and cash. He went on his mobile and then asked if we would have time to get it done. 

I said, if we rush, you can help me dress; we’ve 20 minutes before the bus is due. 
I could not find my pair of trousers! But realised we did not have time to look for them, and wore a khagoule with a coat over it. Getting the shoes onto my swollen toes and feet was agony! But he got them on okay. Then we went as quickly as I could walk with the walker, through the other two complexes to the bus stop. He was well ahead of me; just as well I didn’t have a seizure or take a tumble.
I just told him the bus would be here in ten minutes, and he got up, muttered something, and started walking back to the flats. I shouted out ‘No!’ and he turned, saying he had left his bag in the flat and was going to collect it. I pointed out that it was not a good idea to go into the flat while I was not there, and walked all the way back with him. He got his bag, and we returned to the bus stop as the bus was arriving. You know why I did this. We got on the bus, a close call.
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Down to the bottom of Winchester Hill, I told him when to press the stop button. Got off the bus, good job he was there, else I’d have taken a tumble getting off the bus.
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We walked up to the Ozan store to use their ATM outside. I pointed out that while he’s chasing ahead, would he know if I’d had a tumble or. Like on an earlier visit, I had a seizure and walked into the road, making a bus jam its brakes on and panicking the people around me. As Ejaz explained when I recovered from the seizure. He was not yards ahead of me and physically pulled me back. 

Thanks, Ejaz. It did nothing, he carried on walking too fast for me to catch up. Outside the store, after we realised the ATM was not there, I asked him again not to
rush ahead. After this, he stayed closer to me. 
We plodded on to the JS shop and used their ATM. Then walked back to the Ozan Continental Store, and did a bit of shopping. He was rushing me a little. I
think he was nervous that we’d take too long. Understandable.
I purchased some lemon wafers, Brown tomatoes, two bread rolls, and a red onion, then went to the delicatessen and got a pack of sliced Kielbasa and Krakowska. Then, at the serving counter, four thick-cut slices of Boczek. With all the hurrying, it took a
way the rare pleasure of browsing of the shelves to compare and make choices.
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We hobbled back to Winchester Street, and there were so many police emergency vehicle horns and klaxons heard. The Carer said eight at least.
At the bus stop, the sign said the 40 bus would arrive in ten minutes. The Carer sat on the fag-ends, leaves, twigs & food waste covered filthy pavement and took out his mobile.
The bus arrived 15 minutes late; obviously, to me, the police incident must have taken place somewhere on the bus’s route, I assumed. We got back to the flat, Carer in a bit of a state at being late, sorry about that. I asked him to get my shoes off, nothing else, so he could get the bus to his next client. 
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All the hobbling seems to have affected the legs and feet; all were far less swollen than when I started out on the little trip. Yet they hurt far more than before. A lot more.
I was so hungry that I put the food away, all but what was needed for my snack. Cut the two bread rolls in half. The finger didn’t bleed too much.

Loaded both sides with my favourite No-Butter-Butter. Two slices of meat, sliced tomatoes added, and salted the tomatoes a little. I just knew I was going to like these! The smell! 😋 
Let the tomatoes sink in while I had a quick wash, put them in the baking tin, and devoured them slowly, appreciatingly; lip-smacking-tasty!
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I put the tray down and fell into a deep sleep.

Woken first, by a telephone call from Sister Jane. I must remember to send her an email on Saturday.
I couldn’t believe how tired that little trip had made me.
Also, getting out of the recliner to answer the phone, the dropsies returned. I dropped and trod on, crushing a biscuit, making a mess on the carpet. Knocked the toothpaste-tincture off of the counter. Call-over, I dropped my walking stick, knocking the open tub of biscuits, to join the single crushed one. 
Cleaned the mess up; finding out that the back, shoulder, neck, toothache, feet, leg and left knee pains had all returned with a vengeance. After finishing the cleaning, I took an Oxicodone & Codeine.  
Back into the bed this time. I could do nothing else, the computer was not opened until late Saturday morning.
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I was woken up by the man door chime, quickly followed by the landline chirping. I struggled out of bed, limping, and even more painfully, to the front door, but nobody was there. The phone stopped ringing.

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The doorvhime burst into life again. I was not in any condition mentally or physically to communicate with the ICC lady & Carer, and then my Carer came in. Confusion:
I think they brought some medications and took some away. They could not have timed it better; that’s all I can remember of the visit, and I am not certain I got this right. Drained and in pain.
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This time I got down in the c1966, £300 Oxfam charity shop-bought, wincingly grotty, beige-coloured, crumb-covered from my nocturnal nibblings, itch-making, uncomfortable, positively unhealthy, and dangerous, no longer operational, virus-breeding, easy-to-fall-out-of, catheter-tube-trapping recliner. Dropped of quickly.
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Carer Mizra woke me up. I vaguely recall talking to him, but I don’t recall any other details. 

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Nodded off again, for 7 hours! Good for me.

Waking up at 06:0hrs Saturday…
Cruelly, in absolute agony!

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I had a chat about my telangiectasias veins, which were showing up on the tops of my feet. Of course, with my mouth being at the other end of my overweight, elephantine body, I could not hear what the spider-veins were saying back to me… if, indeed, they were replying. It gave me a wee feeling of being wanted. Timothy’s Telangiectasias have not visited me for months and months. I reckon they heard from either Neuropathy Pete or TBI about how much things went right today for two hours, then I discovered poor Little Inchie embedded in the deep red growth from the fungal lesions’ waste, which was almost as hard, maybe as hard as a diamond. They knew my fear of going back to the hospital to have things looked at. 
I can stay in the flat to be ignored, put down, bullied, and depressed, without paying £15 either way for a taxi. Come to think of it, I haven’t got enough cash anyway. No long-call Carer came today. (Nothing new about that) They missed one or two last week as well. So that was another chance to get down to the shops and use the ATM lost. If only some of them could understand my problems. I’d have more chance of climbing Mount Everest backwards using only one leg and arm than getting that. Tsk!

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But that’s enough of this good news…
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Nae, I joke, here is really good news!
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I’m afraid my scribblings have been rather poorish, well, terrible really. Do my bestest.
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Up at 0600hrs. Pouch off and emptied, very, very carefully.

Hoovered, and off to the Porcelain Throne. Bit of a bloodied Constipation Conrad battle.
At least cleaning things up was much easier than of late.
Then I stripped off, had a shave, did the teggies, and saw the state of poor Little Inchy. It looked like a live growth around Little Incy’s lesions and the tube entry point. I put some Dettol in the warm flannel and tried to gently ease of the growth. But, no! I was unbelievably solid and rock hard. I managed to get a tiny bit off, but it hurt like Hell.

I examined it with the reading glasses on… on me, not the growth. Hehe! I concluded that it must have been a mixture of blood, urine, and barrier cream. This was heartbreaking in a way at the time. Because Carer Mirza had arranged an assisted shower for me this morning. The first one in many weeks. I decided that, with the tube-array gripper now completely off, I would be taking too much of a risk by showering.

Along with the mass of whatever it was hanging loose and liable to block things, I’m a little nervous. Seeing the Doctor next week. Making up a list of my problems.
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Mirza took photos of the Catheter problems.

He took one for the Doctor of Little Inchies crusted, like cement, blood & urine mess found this morning.😡
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The bottom (Do not remove without using Alcohol) sticky tube array holder that was stuck on my thigh has now fallen off, leaving an unreadable rectangular bit that was on top of the lost securing disc.
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Not up to much, now.
A full page, the last page of notes, that I was trying to decipher, beat me. Tiredness, frustrations, and worry had got to me. I cannot believe how bad my writing was.
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Inchie Ode Today: Thursday 25th June 2026

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Photo of some
thing I dropped in 2018. I popped this in again, not being able to take photos and get them on the new computer, due to CorelDraw not working on the new computer, and both cameras being kaputt anyway. I used this as it is the same fork that I dropped today.
I kept a count of items I’d dropped today.
As a bit of a fun quiz, to see if you can guess how many things I lost grip of, this Thursday?
A: 5 – B: 15 – C: 20 or D: 34.
Not that there is any prize, but it may be a surprise.
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THURSDAY 25th JUNE 2026

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MANY CHANGES TODAY
Both legs are playing up today; the right one is higher up, and the left might be from the fractures, ’cause I clouted it last night, when it gave way, on the cabinet corner.
No moans today. Yes, there are plenty to pick from, but I’m getting sick of listing them. Which may change later, naturally. Arranging the lists and getting Carer cover to go with me to the hospital and Doctors is not working well. 
Lack of communication and feedback. As with the worrying case of the Catheter.
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I’ll not mention the Glaucoma operation being delayed,  and I have to phone them to make another assessment for the surgery session.
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Inchie Ode: Sunday 28th June 2026

Inchie played in goal… once
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THE PIPISTRELLE & PIMPERNEL  
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Mayhaps, I’d just got to a new stage in my
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SUNDAY 28 JUNE 2026
A mix of mellowness and anger,
A twinge of hope? At least an aura,
A moment of acceptable aprosexia,
Questions asked, hoping for an answer,  

Made with no guide or
adjudicator,
I became a temporary faux procrastinator,
An email of complaint, anger was on amber…
Sent to the NHS, about the Catheter,
Mentioning the cataract & Glaucoma,
I’ve never felt angrier or absoluter,
I’ve never been a greedy acquirer,
Today, I could not have felt shyer,

High-Mood-Horis’ presence felt higher,
Then Depression Darius sank me lower,
Darius or Horis, which was my alienator?
Then, I’d be the apologiser, then appeaser,
Guilt, shame, embarrassment, then felt annoyder,
Recalled the dentist giving me acroanaesthesia,

Or would that have been acroparesthesia?
Either way, it left me with ataxia & aparaprosexia,

Tonight I became even more ambisinister…
With periods of drop-it-no-choice, apraxia,

Still some items on the floor, I used the picker-upper,
My knee gave way; the tendon was very tender,
Went down, hit my head on a cabinet corner,
Cry? Me? I wailed like a yodeller!
My luck stays the same, bad, whatever!

But mentally, I’m whithersoever…
Here, there, gone, coming, whichever, 
Weirdly wearier, weedier, woozier,
I’m turning into a whimperer…
If only life could be easier…

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I blamed Starmer. Still do.
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Inchies Ode: Wednesday 24th June 2026

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A Daft Witty Ode
I once went out with a female girl,
And romance began to unfurl,
In the excitement, I got an injury
I went and cracked my knee,
I got entangled in her girdle!
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Inchies Ode & Clap-trap: Tue 23 June 2026

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THOUGHTS ON EL PRESIDENTE TRUMP
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A hypothetical ‘Greater United States of America’ (in red). including Canada, Greenland and the former Panama Canal Zone, made by Donald Trump, Venezuela (in orange) under U.S. influence after the intervention and ongoing U.S. threats on Cuba (in yellow) in early 2026.
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I got the notepad to read my day’s memory notes, scribblings. They were terrible!
I wish the camera hadn’t died; otherwise, I would have taken a photo (if the computer would let me import it) to show you what a mess I made of them.
My eyes are getting seriously bad now. When I nod off and wake again, all I see is what I was seeing before, warped and leaning to my left. Cataract or Glaucoma, one or both, could be the reason for this, maybe?

The lousy luck in my having a seizure as they were prepping me for the Cataract pre-operation procedure, and the lady thinking I was having a stroke as I came out-of-it clutching my chest (always get an acidic taste reflux after a seizure), called the CAT team. I spent the night in the Cardiac ward. Then, months later, I got a text or an email, but I couldn’t find it because I had accidentally deleted everything from my email & mobile memory. It told me I had to make another appointment, and this time to make sure I bring a Carer along with me. Same for the Doctor’s appointment… Yes, I got one! Had to wait 5 weeks to get the earliest available one. 
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I was going to send this to the District Nurses to explain my concerns over the new Catheter.
I also meant to ask how often I have to arrange for it to be changed, but I missed that off. Tsk!
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On my last visit to the Highbury Hospital
That was in about 2012; now I’ve got a second one.
Which I’m pleased about. Snags? Plenty!
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