Punkdoc 💞💞. AnnaB, hope you are feeling better. tui34, ouch!!! These things are easily done! My last house, I slipped,we had fakey "lino" on the floor, I have to use emollients to wash with, then it was an oily type with oats. Now we have a rough porcelain floor and whopping great bathmats, but the floor isn't smooth anymore. Just off into town for a click and collect,then good beach run for the doggies. Home,lunch for them, quick tidy up (of humans) and off for lunch
A very windy night here, but everything still seems to be where it should be 🤞. It’s very breezy now, but brighter than yesterday. Got to go to the SM later.
Glad things have settled a bit @punkdoc. As already said, sleep may be easier when you are home and it’s quieter.
Oh dear @tui, I hope the pain subsides and you haven’t done any damage. Such a shame you’ve had to cancel your appointments with the surgeon, and hope you’re not waiting too long before you can see him/her.
Lovely, cheerful primulas to greet you @Dovefromabove. Yes, spring is on its way 😁.
Poor @tui34. Hope that settles down quickly and no major damage done. On our to-do list is installing a grab rail in the walk in shower, but just haven’t got round to it yet. Have been looking for something a bit stylish that doesn’t scream accessible bathroom, but I think we’d better stop procrastinating and get on with it. Good progress, @punkdoc! I wonder if the staff pressures you are noticing more this time, are even worse due to the time of year? More staff being granted leave between Christmas and New Year, and some residual disruptions from the latest doctor strike? Hopefully they have enough people to look after you. If your ‘numbers’ settle down, I bet you are hoping to get home today or tomorrow. Good luck to Moira, I expect she is gearing up into nurse mode and ready to look after you!
Oooo Ouch @tui34, easily done on a wet floor, hopefully no serious damage done.
Glad to hear that you are out of bed @punkdoc, does this mean that they will allow you home tomorrow or will you have to wait another day or two?
When I was in hospital a few years ago, I co-opted myself into night time 'look out' to help the nurses out. I rarely slept just dosed when necessary and we had two elderly ladies in the ward who sadly suffered various degrees of dementia. One would regularly try to exit her bed several times a night often getting herself trapped in some way. The other seemed to think she needed a bedpan more than once but never remembered to use her 'buzzer', she would simply call out in a very feeble voice for a nurse. I would keep watch over the pair of them and use my 'buzzer' to summon help when necessary. A nurse would arrive and look at me and I would say 'Marion' or 'Katherine' and they would go to the one needing help. When everything was sorted the nurse would come over to turn off my flashing help light and give me a big thank you as it seemed that before I arrived on the ward they had been having to send someone passed every 20 minutes to check on these two ladies. As covid was rife in the hospital at this time, they were short staffed and very busy so I felt I had helped a little in one very small way for the ten days I was there, any way it gave me something to do during the long watches of the night.
Well done @AnnaB on your ward monitoring! It would be immensely helpful if all wards had one such as you in them I'm sure. I'm afraid when I was in, with a kidney infection, I just grumped to myself at the visiting family opposite availing themselves of their mum's (the patient) tv and turning it up loud. It was an 8-bed ward, so it was all of us who suffered from their selfishness.
Good news on your progress punkdoc - but oh dear tui34.
Afternoon all, sunny spells and showers today and very mild. Managed our usual walk to the papershop, came back and had a coffee, then managed half hour or so in the garden, raking leaves off a couple of flower beds where I knew bulbs should be coming up. Look what I found! Such a cheerful sight, as @Dovefromabove says. my earliest sighting yet I believe.
Sorry for such a large pic, don't know what happened there, I had reduced it in size .
Wouldn't let me continue typing below pic either so continuing post.
Well done @punkdoc, good progress so early. Hopefully you will be allowed home soon.
@AnnaBwell done to you, the nurses must have been so grateful.
@tui34, do hope you are ok and the pain has diminished/gone away.
@Ergates, We've had a stainless steel grab rail fitted recently in our shower which matches the other fittings and it's been a godsend since I became ill last July. I always make sure our bathmats have a non-slide rubber backing as well to be on the safe side. It's better fitted asap before you need it!
I went out this morning to a local GC and bought Rose de Rescht and 3 hebes. I was really looking for a shrub for dry shade for Son 2. Woman in the GC said the hebes would be OK with that. I'm not sure and I never think they are that hardy. Mine always died in the winter. The 3 were on offer for three. The rose is for me, can't resist a rose. Bought 6 more bags of compost. 2 good ones for rose planting and 4 cheapo for mulching. Monty D said not to add compost and fertiliser when planting but he hasn't seen my clay soil. His soil, which he says is clay, always looks lovely. I bet he's put loads of compost in it. Peter Beales says to add BFB when planting.
I'm having a quiet afternoon. Need to relax after all the family noise and it's been raining so garden is wet.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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A very windy night here, but everything still seems to be where it should be 🤞. It’s very breezy now, but brighter than yesterday. Got to go to the SM later.
Glad things have settled a bit @punkdoc. As already said, sleep may be easier when you are home and it’s quieter.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good progress, @punkdoc! I wonder if the staff pressures you are noticing more this time, are even worse due to the time of year? More staff being granted leave between Christmas and New Year, and some residual disruptions from the latest doctor strike? Hopefully they have enough people to look after you. If your ‘numbers’ settle down, I bet you are hoping to get home today or tomorrow. Good luck to Moira, I expect she is gearing up into nurse mode and ready to look after you!
Glad to hear that you are out of bed @punkdoc, does this mean that they will allow you home tomorrow or will you have to wait another day or two?
When I was in hospital a few years ago, I co-opted myself into night time 'look out' to help the nurses out. I rarely slept just dosed when necessary and we had two elderly ladies in the ward who sadly suffered various degrees of dementia. One would regularly try to exit her bed several times a night often getting herself trapped in some way. The other seemed to think she needed a bedpan more than once but never remembered to use her 'buzzer', she would simply call out in a very feeble voice for a nurse. I would keep watch over the pair of them and use my 'buzzer' to summon help when necessary. A nurse would arrive and look at me and I would say 'Marion' or 'Katherine' and they would go to the one needing help. When everything was sorted the nurse would come over to turn off my flashing help light and give me a big thank you as it seemed that before I arrived on the ward they had been having to send someone passed every 20 minutes to check on these two ladies. As covid was rife in the hospital at this time, they were short staffed and very busy so I felt I had helped a little in one very small way for the ten days I was there, any way it gave me something to do during the long watches of the night.
Good news on your progress punkdoc - but oh dear tui34.
Lovely primulas Dove.
Sorry for such a large pic, don't know what happened there, I had reduced it in size .
Well done @punkdoc, good progress so early. Hopefully you will be allowed home soon.
@AnnaBwell done to you, the nurses must have been so grateful.
@tui34, do hope you are ok and the pain has diminished/gone away.
@Ergates, We've had a stainless steel grab rail fitted recently in our shower which matches the other fittings and it's been a godsend since I became ill last July. I always make sure our bathmats have a non-slide rubber backing as well to be on the safe side.
It's better fitted asap before you need it!
Hope everybody enjoys the rest of the day.
Glad @punkdoc is up.
I went out this morning to a local GC and bought Rose de Rescht and 3 hebes. I was really looking for a shrub for dry shade for Son 2. Woman in the GC said the hebes would be OK with that. I'm not sure and I never think they are that hardy. Mine always died in the winter. The 3 were on offer for three. The rose is for me, can't resist a rose. Bought 6 more bags of compost. 2 good ones for rose planting and 4 cheapo for mulching. Monty D said not to add compost and fertiliser when planting but he hasn't seen my clay soil. His soil, which he says is clay, always looks lovely. I bet he's put loads of compost in it. Peter Beales says to add BFB when planting.
I'm having a quiet afternoon. Need to relax after all the family noise and it's been raining so garden is wet.