Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Waiting for results and a floor and good weather.
A new day and a new trail to find out what is wrong with me this time.
Some details of a new diagnosis were described yesterday.
I may well still have a wee infection. Maybe people in my situation have to accept that as normal.
This morning I sat and waited to fill a container to be tested.
The stoma performs when I don't want it to - but not when I am sitting waiting for it to do so.
I will hear about that, maybe next week.
This afternoon I saw one of my ex pupils, Lisa. She is excellent with a needle and took some blood to be tested.
The results of this test may be at least 2 weeks away - apparently it is not just matter of dipping in some test paper. Cultures have to be taken and time must elapse.
My health problems are as nothing compared with one old lady.
We had a phone call from Mike, the floorman.
So, thank goodness he is not lying in some morgue somewhere, which was my worst case scenario.
He had to get away very quickly last week to sort out problems with his 90 year old mother.
Mother has dementia. She suffered a fall and broke her hip. She was operated on and the hip was mended.... then she suffered a heart attack.
The dementia means she is unable to communicate with the doctors and nurses.
Poor Mike. I would never pass on an opinion I have, that maybe it is time to let mother go. I am full of admiration for all that the health service do - but maybe there is some skill in deciding not to do it.
But I am not talking about my loved one.
It will be 2 or 3 weeks now until Mike will be ready for extra flooring jobs.
We will wait.
Bill has had a tooth repaired today.
The lap top computer has gone away to see if is worthy of a repair. There is a good little company which specialises in lap tops and for £20 will do a fair assessment and advise on how much a repair might cost.
Tomorrow we move from medical matters (I hope) back to the shop. We are doing 2 Thursdays running for Hilary, so that in September she will be able to help us.
It has rained a lot - but of course the weather here has been nothing like that experienced in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Snow!
Some people seem surprised by the snow.
"Snow at Easter?" they ask in disbelief. In fact we are more likely to get a white Easter than a white Christmas.
In the past 42 years there have been 12 white Easters somewhere in the UK.
I remember one in 1966 - the first after we got married.
Bill remembers one in the early 1960s when a group went cycling for Easter. He cycled from the New Forest to Bridport in a blizzard!
The snowiest was in 1983.
It looked really bad in Scotland - don't travel unless absolutely necessary.
There will be questions asked in a school.... how come it was deemed absolutely necessary for the teenagers to have a day out at Alton Towers?
Right - time for some relaxation before bed time.
We have to leave early in the morning to pay for and collect 2 lots that we won at the auction yesterday.
I have an interesting modernist mirror and Bill has a box of old cameras and a WW2 periscope.
Denhams is on the road to Dorking.
Some details of a new diagnosis were described yesterday.
I may well still have a wee infection. Maybe people in my situation have to accept that as normal.
This morning I sat and waited to fill a container to be tested.
The stoma performs when I don't want it to - but not when I am sitting waiting for it to do so.
I will hear about that, maybe next week.
This afternoon I saw one of my ex pupils, Lisa. She is excellent with a needle and took some blood to be tested.
The results of this test may be at least 2 weeks away - apparently it is not just matter of dipping in some test paper. Cultures have to be taken and time must elapse.
My health problems are as nothing compared with one old lady.
We had a phone call from Mike, the floorman.
So, thank goodness he is not lying in some morgue somewhere, which was my worst case scenario.
He had to get away very quickly last week to sort out problems with his 90 year old mother.
Mother has dementia. She suffered a fall and broke her hip. She was operated on and the hip was mended.... then she suffered a heart attack.
The dementia means she is unable to communicate with the doctors and nurses.
Poor Mike. I would never pass on an opinion I have, that maybe it is time to let mother go. I am full of admiration for all that the health service do - but maybe there is some skill in deciding not to do it.
But I am not talking about my loved one.
It will be 2 or 3 weeks now until Mike will be ready for extra flooring jobs.
We will wait.
Bill has had a tooth repaired today.
The lap top computer has gone away to see if is worthy of a repair. There is a good little company which specialises in lap tops and for £20 will do a fair assessment and advise on how much a repair might cost.
Tomorrow we move from medical matters (I hope) back to the shop. We are doing 2 Thursdays running for Hilary, so that in September she will be able to help us.
It has rained a lot - but of course the weather here has been nothing like that experienced in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Snow!
Some people seem surprised by the snow.
"Snow at Easter?" they ask in disbelief. In fact we are more likely to get a white Easter than a white Christmas.
In the past 42 years there have been 12 white Easters somewhere in the UK.
I remember one in 1966 - the first after we got married.
Bill remembers one in the early 1960s when a group went cycling for Easter. He cycled from the New Forest to Bridport in a blizzard!
The snowiest was in 1983.
It looked really bad in Scotland - don't travel unless absolutely necessary.
There will be questions asked in a school.... how come it was deemed absolutely necessary for the teenagers to have a day out at Alton Towers?
Right - time for some relaxation before bed time.
We have to leave early in the morning to pay for and collect 2 lots that we won at the auction yesterday.
I have an interesting modernist mirror and Bill has a box of old cameras and a WW2 periscope.
Denhams is on the road to Dorking.
