Sunday, March 17, 2024

A Week... In My life

You guessed it. This will be the shortest blog ever  :)

We worked all week... I limped around a lot. Why? Well my Neuro suggested that stretching or bending could increase the size of the disc spaces in my spine, there by alleviating the strangulation of my spinal column. I mean it made sense; at the supermarket I bend over and lean on the trolley, not realising that was what I was doing!  Anyway, it didn't work. I did it, but I think something got jammed somewhere because now I can barely walk and that comes with a lot of sweat and swearing.

See! Down the bottom they don't look right!

It is Sunday today; only five more days until I see my Neuro again and he'll decide if it is Spinal Stenosis or not after checking out the MRI scans. If it is; God... I could kiss him (lucky he is very good looking and young!) but even if he was old and ugly, having an answer after years of pain will be astonishing!

Now I know he isn't going to whip out a scalpel and operate straight away but I'm going to vote for it as soon as possible. It no point trying me on meds. I've tried them all! Most I'm intolerant to, some I'm downright allergic too.

Monday, March 11, 2024

Last day of the mini break...

Mini breaks are so good at the start of them; not so good at the finish line.  It's 41 degrees celcius here again today. 3 days of 40+ and I'm hiding in my house, air conditioner blasting - like a vampire. I can't let the sun touch me, because it is like being submerged in battery acid.

We went out for breakfast and it was nice under cover, but as soon as I went in the sunlight; I wondered how in the hell I had managed to get out at all. And of course, I dropped the Squeeze and his kid off to go swimming at Eastern Beach, so that means I've got to go back out in the hideous heat to get them! The Squeeze magnanimously said "oh we'll walk home!" but one look at the horror on the kid's face and I knew there was no way they were going to walk home.  The Squeeze sometimes he forgets he's 69 years old I think...



So I'm sitting at home, in front of the air conditioner, blogging while they are doing a swim. It would have been nice, but I think of my legs (read I'm almost a cripple) so getting in and out of the water would be a nightmare. I'd rather stay home!

I'm counting down the days until my appointment with my neurosurgeon. Please let him have the answer because I'm damned sick of being an invalid. 11 days... then if I'm right, or rather he is, I'll have to have another damned operation (this time on my spine), but at least I'll be normal then! Just one of the plebs!

Sunday, March 10, 2024

A day of relaxation...

It's too hot to do anything else other than relax. We could do television but its only 10am. I've cleaned up so my day, in effect, is over until 3pm. Then I have to pick up my mother and my other son and his fiance come over for roast lamb. Okay; a roast in this incredible heat probably wasn't a great idea... I think we might do it Greek and then just do a huge souvalaki mix... which would be better than a sit down roast.

A couple of weeks ago we had the floorboards done. They look fabulous! But my God... the work involved. I'm never doing it again. We had to move everything out of the house, including pictures off the wall! And the dust!!  But my oldest boy did it and he had to sand the whole house back to the original colour and then paint it.

But the dust! Last night the Moodle brought a ladder in and climbed up because the air conditioner was making a funny noise (and I thought please God... Don't take my air conditioner!) and it was full of floor dust!!!

Now I may just lay on them to keep cool; or would if I could get down and then up again!

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Oh My God....

It has been a balmy 41 degrees Celsius today; which in the old measurement, is 105.8 degrees Fahrenheit.  In other words, it was freaking hot; which is weird for March. Back when I was a kid it used to be summer in November and December. Now it feels as though summer is getting later and later.

My car continues to do weird things; the air conditioning didn't work for some of the time and the side mirrors never came out of their sleep mode and went back to work so I had to guess a lot. Mostly, I figured it was too damned hot to do anything so no one would be out any how!

My daughter's new house is closer than the old one, only an hour and a quarter from mine and the house is quite lovely; or it will be when it's sorted and finished; still, blistering hot weather and all we had a good time. My son and his girl friend came over, running with the 'many hands make light work' but it seemed mostly, we had to zip here or run there and so the day was finished before the work was and we left the family to do their stuff.  To be honest, I think they would prefer to sort the place out exactly as they would like.

So we got in the car (air conditioning working thank God) and were half way to the Moodle's place when they called him to say they weren't going out as Sunny wasn't feeling well - so I said "let's go home!"

And that is exactly what we did! 

It is still bloody hot; 31 at 10 pm.  What is with that?

Friday, March 8, 2024

Boy... I'm just going to go with the flow...

Feeling like crap again, but that is the normal these days... The world goes on...  Today I did nothing really. Got dressed, went and got my toe nails done because when you feel like crap, its a way of making a little dent in everything in your life that's horrid.

I bought a new Mazda; I picked it up last weekend. I love it (I loved my old one too) but this is like driving a cloud.  Tiny trouble, something seems wrong with the electronics. It keeps fading in an out of the radio. The fuel gauge is stuck on FULL (wouldn't that be nice to be accurate!); the air conditioning only works intermittently and cruise doesn't work at all! So, I have to take it back. 
 
Not even that one thing can go right!!!!

Tomorrow we're up early and off it my daughter house to look after her boys! They are in the middle of moving house so I figured we'd go and help by keeping the boys entertained. Then we are off to the other side of down to the Moodle's son to look after their baby while they go to a wedding! It's about the only nice part about getting old!