Every cloud has a silver lining, Busy Lizzie!. The nurse will weigh me on Tuesday no doubt so I may have te same outcome! A little dizzy getting out of bed but better now. The weather is dry at the mement but forecast is for rain by eleven. My friend cheered me up with pics from his garden and the last of his amaryllis. Here they are.
If you have trouble eating enough to keep your strength up could you ask someone to nip out and get you a box of "Complan" ? Its a nutritional drink (you add it to water or milk) that is designed to fill you full of the good stuff you need to keep you going when you can't eat as much. You can buy it (or others like it) from almost any supermarket or chemist (I get mine from Tesco). There are a range of flavours (I find strawberry suits me best but I believe there's even a chicken soup variety). I wont go into too much detail as so not to distract from your friends BEAUTIFUL photographs but just wanted to share Complan with you as it really helps me xx
Oh TY. Clarington. I do know about Complan etc and am very experienced in dealing with nausea as I suffered from so called "Morning sickness"which in my case was all-day sickness well into the fifth month with my many pregnancies so I have been coping by nibbling bits of ginger biscuits, sipping cold water and rinsing the bitter bile that comes up out of my mouth. I am concentrating on trying to keep good nourishment down so have sucked my way through a satsuma, leaf by leaf, this morning. I remember so well how my doctor would pinch the flesh on my wrist to see how much fat , if any, was left between my skin and my bones! No fear of that being needed yet. Dry toast is about to be tried next and I have honey that came with my groceries yesterday to sweeten my mint tea. I do try to stick to natural (non processed) foods anyway in my diet to keep my personal carbon tally down. But I am definitely on the mend as typing this much a day or two ago would have been too tiring.
A very competent and pleasant man has just surveyed my cold rambling bungalow and is recommending me for a grant for a new boiler and heat control system. He is also going to try and get me external wall insulation which has just been extended to include all Bristol post codes. It should take three weeks for the office work then an engineer will come to suss out the job. I should be much warmer next winter. It has been damp all afternoon so perhaps we are due for a dry day tomorrow.
TY, Busy-Lizzie, feeling much more chipper today and the forecast is for sunshine all day! My appetite is returning too and I had my first cup of tea with milk for a good few weeks when I got up this morning and enjoyed it. Surgery later for lots of tests.
Good to here your feeling better and you appetite is beginning to return, the sunshine always makes us feel better, hope all the testes go well and don't tier you out to much.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Tests all done and sent off to hospital by nurse who was pleased with my 142/70 BP but said she could tell my arrythmia was worse so tried to get my Monday's doctor appointment changed to Thursday or Friday when the test results would be back but the doctor is on holiday all week.. She checked I had a Nitrolingual spray and knew how to use it so felt safe leaving the "Tweaking" needed in my medication till then. So Monday it is. I had to stop on the way I was so breathless but managed the return journey without stopping and felt so much better in the sunshine I wandered round my garden drinking in the beauty of the spring flowers and the prunus blossom.
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Every cloud has a silver lining, Busy Lizzie!. The nurse will weigh me on Tuesday no doubt so I may have te same outcome! A little dizzy getting out of bed but better now. The weather is dry at the mement but forecast is for rain by eleven. My friend cheered me up with pics from his garden and the last of his amaryllis. Here they are.
The deep burgundy of "Carmen" amaryllis has at last been captured to my friend's satisfaction on his camera.
Marion I hope you're feeling better today.
If you have trouble eating enough to keep your strength up could you ask someone to nip out and get you a box of "Complan" ? Its a nutritional drink (you add it to water or milk) that is designed to fill you full of the good stuff you need to keep you going when you can't eat as much. You can buy it (or others like it) from almost any supermarket or chemist (I get mine from Tesco). There are a range of flavours (I find strawberry suits me best but I believe there's even a chicken soup variety). I wont go into too much detail as so not to distract from your friends BEAUTIFUL photographs but just wanted to share Complan with you as it really helps me xx
Oh TY. Clarington. I do know about Complan etc and am very experienced in dealing with nausea as I suffered from so called "Morning sickness"which in my case was all-day sickness well into the fifth month with my many pregnancies so I have been coping by nibbling bits of ginger biscuits, sipping cold water and rinsing the bitter bile that comes up out of my mouth. I am concentrating on trying to keep good nourishment down so have sucked my way through a satsuma, leaf by leaf, this morning. I remember so well how my doctor would pinch the flesh on my wrist to see how much fat , if any, was left between my skin and my bones! No fear of that being needed yet. Dry toast is about to be tried next and I have honey that came with my groceries yesterday to sweeten my mint tea. I do try to stick to natural (non processed) foods anyway in my diet to keep my personal carbon tally down. But I am definitely on the mend as typing this much a day or two ago would have been too tiring.
Glad you're improving
A very competent and pleasant man has just surveyed my cold rambling bungalow and is recommending me for a grant for a new boiler and heat control system. He is also going to try and get me external wall insulation which has just been extended to include all Bristol post codes. It should take three weeks for the office work then an engineer will come to suss out the job. I should be much warmer next winter. It has been damp all afternoon so perhaps we are due for a dry day tomorrow.
That sounds good news Marion. I hope you get the grant. Good luck.
I hope you are feeling better and able to drink and rest.
TY, Busy-Lizzie, feeling much more chipper today and the forecast is for sunshine all day! My appetite is returning too and I had my first cup of tea with milk for a good few weeks when I got up this morning and enjoyed it. Surgery later for lots of tests.
Good to here your feeling better and you appetite is beginning to return, the sunshine always makes us feel better, hope all the testes go well and don't tier you out to much.
Tests all done and sent off to hospital by nurse who was pleased with my 142/70 BP but said she could tell my arrythmia was worse so tried to get my Monday's doctor appointment changed to Thursday or Friday when the test results would be back but the doctor is on holiday all week.. She checked I had a Nitrolingual spray and knew how to use it so felt safe leaving the "Tweaking" needed in my medication till then. So Monday it is. I had to stop on the way I was so breathless but managed the return journey without stopping and felt so much better in the sunshine I wandered round my garden drinking in the beauty of the spring flowers and the prunus blossom.