Stressful night @Busy-Lizzie..... hope all is well now š¤š»
Meeting some old friends for coffee this morning, then visiting Dad for the afternoon, then Garden Club this evening. Ā MD of a local chain of GCs is speaking (Squires for any of you round here). Ā Should be interesting, but it is my job to write a report on the event ......first time Iāve done that, so hope my journalistic skills are up to it āš»āš»āš»ššš
Sounds like a good day ahead @chicky šĀ Ive phoned and cancelled tennis for this morning. This coughing is ānot very attractiveā šĀ I shall have to pop into Wrose for a few things so Iāll do that on the way back from taking OH to work, but otherwise I think a gentle day is called for.Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have a chicken carcass in the pressure cooker for stock. Will be making soup later if anyone fancies some. We went to Tate Modern yesterday glad weĀ went but with such huge spaces you have to do a lot of walking round on concrete floors to see anything. I know it's me but I just don't "get" a lot of modern art but each to their own.
Greetings all.Ā Ā Disturbed last night with talkative knee but consistent with previous jabs so it should calm down.Ā Ā Since I have to rest it I have had a lazy dozy morning reading in bed.Ā Ā It is drismal again so I'm not missing anything outdoors.
Hope your garden talk goes well @chicky.Ā Ā We have one coming up on the 26th with a very English sounding name for the speaker on plants that are beautiful in winter.
Sorry you're coughing again @Dovefromabove.Ā Have you still got some of the magic mixture?Ā Ā Got your tooth seen to yet @Hostafan1?Ā Not the kind of thing you should have to "grin and bear".
Hope you catch up on your rest @Busy-Lizzie and anyone else with a disturbed night.
Hello all. I woke up at 9.30am then watched TV and drank coffee. Had to get up to feed the horses and muck out the field shelter.Ā
Must admit that I was very unimpressed with the A&E but they are on strike so it's a basic service. They could have smiled and been a bit more friendly though. It's not much fun when you are elderly being left on a rock hard plastic trolley in a brightly lit noisy corridor in the night. Passing staff stare at you but only one young man smiled. He suggested I lie on a trolley next to my friend as there weren't any chairs. My arthritic back was playing up. My friend was in a hospital gown, no sheet or blanket or pillow. She was clutching her coat around her. I found a blanket for her in a cupboard. The young man who smiled then draped a sheet over me. There was no communication and when I asked how much longer the wait would be, 1am by then, I was snapped at. I was snapped at again when I asked, around 2.30am, what would happen if I went home (my friend kept telling me to). The nurse said my friend would be sent home if the cardiologist said so and she couldn't have a bed or even a trolley as they weren't a hotel and they didn't provide a taxi service. She would have to sit in the uncomfortable waiting room, not even a magazine to look at, until someone came to fetch her. Her husband is 88 and has cancer.
On the way home, around 4am, we realised that they had left a cannula in my friend's arm and they hadn't even cleaned her up after the ECG and the jelly stuff was drying uncomfortably on her skin. She has just had Norovirus that lasted a week and it was that that upset the Pacemaker.
Sorry for the long rant.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Oh @Busy-Lizzie bless you both. That sounds like no fun at all š¢. Ā Iāve been in A&E at Gorleston with a poorly Pa on several occasions. Weāve had long waits, but at least the staff tried to make us both comfortable and kept checking on Pa.Ā I think you should join me on the sofa for a snooze with the Magnificent Seven this afternoon š šŗĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Hope your friend is ok and that youāre still sound asleep @Busy-Lizzie
Several of us had a wakeful night ... we were chatting on the āAre you awake?ā thread. šĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ive phoned and cancelled tennis for this morning. This coughing is ānot very attractiveā šĀ
I shall have to pop into Wrose for a few things so Iāll do that on the way back from taking OH to work, but otherwise I think a gentle day is called for.Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope your garden talk goes well @chicky.Ā Ā We have one coming up on the 26th with a very English sounding name for the speaker on plants that are beautiful in winter.
Sorry you're coughing again @Dovefromabove.Ā Have you still got some of the magic mixture?Ā Ā Got your tooth seen to yet @Hostafan1?Ā Not the kind of thing you should have to "grin and bear".
Hope you catch up on your rest @Busy-Lizzie and anyone else with a disturbed night.
I woke up at 9.30am then watched TV and drank coffee. Had to get up to feed the horses and muck out the field shelter.Ā
Must admit that I was very unimpressed with the A&E but they are on strike so it's a basic service. They could have smiled and been a bit more friendly though. It's not much fun when you are elderly being left on a rock hard plastic trolley in a brightly lit noisy corridor in the night. Passing staff stare at you but only one young man smiled. He suggested I lie on a trolley next to my friend as there weren't any chairs. My arthritic back was playing up. My friend was in a hospital gown, no sheet or blanket or pillow. She was clutching her coat around her. I found a blanket for her in a cupboard. The young man who smiled then draped a sheet over me. There was no communication and when I asked how much longer the wait would be, 1am by then, I was snapped at. I was snapped at again when I asked, around 2.30am, what would happen if I went home (my friend kept telling me to). The nurse said my friend would be sent home if the cardiologist said so and she couldn't have a bed or even a trolley as they weren't a hotel and they didn't provide a taxi service. She would have to sit in the uncomfortable waiting room, not even a magazine to look at, until someone came to fetch her. Her husband is 88 and has cancer.
On the way home, around 4am, we realised that they had left a cannula in my friend's arm and they hadn't even cleaned her up after the ECG and the jelly stuff was drying uncomfortably on her skin. She has just had Norovirus that lasted a week and it was that that upset the Pacemaker.
Sorry for the long rant.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think you should join me on the sofa for a snooze with the Magnificent Seven this afternoon š šŗĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.