Houdini experience.


Confused by the previous night’s “Ground Hog” days experience, (Multiple experience’s of the same actual sleep/awake period) I arose with an agenda to find a “solution”. I tried fastening a loop of rope around the end of the mattress!

Unfortunately during the night this loop somehow became very tight around my toe, and I ended up dangling in a noose, struggling to get free! I felt like Houdini trying to escape from a  straight jacket.

Eventually I managed to get free, and make my way further up the bed, to ponder just how on earth I managed to get into such a mess!

Now I’m thinking could the solution be to use a single duvet, to avoid the excess weight of the double duvet hanging over the side(s).

A single duvet made a huge difference.

Busy busy

Incredibly busy few days. Dougal and Kelly visited, then visits by District Nurses, Occupational Therapist, Lucia from Ireland. Running out of pills, so needed to reorder fast!

Paul’s visiting  day today.

Much progress on emailing the Artefacts spreadsheet to the Science Museum. (Final step tomorrow).

 

 

 

Exhausted!

Woke this morning feeling extremely tired and weak. Reluctantly cancelled my regular exercise class at St. Isabel Hospice at Welwyn. Took myself to my new electric bed, and slept until 10 pm!

Hoping this is a temporary phenomenon.

My knotted rope

As many of you now are aware, I am surprised and delighted to still be here. For example, I never expected to be sufficiently fit or mobile to attend our annual Lab reunion just two weeks ago.

So I am now daring to imagine dates in the more distant future, as targets in my survival plan (Lavinias birthday 12/12/44, Christmas, New Year, the annual Christmas Curry event later in January, and some interesting Cambridge event during the first week in February).

I visualise each as knots on my rope, focusing on the next one alone, but hoping for more. One step at at a time!

Sister act

These last few days my lovely two sisters have been looking after me while my dear wife Lavinia has had a bit of R&R in Cornwall (Son’s 40th birthday) and a concert in Bristol.

Great to spend time with them and reminisce around childhood memories. Dispatched back up North on the train this morning.