Lockdown Diary - Wednesday 14th April 2021

Things are slowly getting better and although I still do have some pain and discomfort, I've decided to stop taking painkillers altogether as I think I'll recover quicker without them, as long as I'm careful.

My day is likely to pan out like all the others this week with a mix of reading, watching music documentaries, resting, and the occasional bit of writing.  For some strange reason I've not managed to listen to music much, but maybe that'll change today.

In between carer visits I've managed to finished reading 'Hawkwind: Days of the Underground: Radical Escapism in the Age Of Paranoia', which means there's room to start another book - so many to choose from!  I also found the time to write and post a review of it on Goodreads.

I had a disturbing dream about a friend, which made me get in contact with them to check they were OK and it was just a crazy dream.

Over lunch I started watching a documentary about Annie Nightingale, the Radio 1 DJ, which was an interesting and enjoyable diversion.  Good to see someone keeping John Peel's flame alive.

I still seem to be more tired than normal, which I guess must be down to the operation and its after-effects, to the extent that I nearly fell asleep during a period of daytime resting, something which is almost unheard of. (In fact, daytime resting is pretty extreme behaviour too)

The evening arrives, we eat dinner whilst watching 'Narcos: Mexico' and then I'm off to bed and sleep.

(I didn't end up listening to any music - maybe tomorrow)

Liela Moss / 'Atoms At Me' / 'Who The Power'


[[]]

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts

Lockdown Diary - Thursday 12th November 2020

Image
Today I'm on leave to celebrate my wife's birthday, though as this coincides with cleaner day, I still have to get up early, though I did manage to sneak 30 minutes extra in bed.  Thursday is a good day to celebrate her birthday as it's one of the two days each week she is lifted out of her bed into her special tilt-in-space chair, if only for 10 to 15 minutes. Since son #2 is working today and son #3 has lectures at uni, the current plan is that when H goes into her chair, I'll give her my cards and presents and also any others that have already arrived.  The boys will share theirs with her, as and when. Getting things organised, birthday-wise, was interrupted by a call from an unknown mobile number, which turned out to be the specialist nurse from endoscopy from the hospital.  They want to book my wife in to have her PEG replaced, which ended up being a long discussion about the pros and cons of the two types of PEG. In the end we decided it was in my wife's best ...
Read more

Tales From The Crypt - Wednesday 10th August 2022

Image
It's been a while since I've written something like this, but this post is liable to be a shorter one owing to today being a working day. Up early in order to walk before it gets too hot.  Not only that, but I need to get set up for work (obvs!) and get my head into work mode (tricky?) Radio silence... The working day is over and it went well, apart from the return of eye ache. One thing it has brought to my attention is how much difference having a structure to the day makes.  The necessity of finding time to do certain things, like walking and meditating has meant that I've done both of these things despite having 'less time'. As a nascent Idler, I don't want my life to be driven by somebody else's view of productivity/value and certainly don't want to worship at the altar of all those time management gurus, as I once did. However, from a work perspective, I do have to get things done (GTD!!!), and so I am thinking more about how I might apply structur...
Read more

Lockdown Diary - Thursday 3rd December 2020

Image
Off out early before work to pick up meds from the local pharmacy, which does at least offer me the chance to pick up a coffee, a music mag (year end reviews!) and some Christmas cards.  All this while the cleaner cleans my office ready for me to start on another crazy day of work. Pharmacy visit turns out to have only satisfied part of the delivery and I'm going to have to go back tomorrow to get the rest (bulk of it), which is slightly annoying as I would have left it until tomorrow, if I'd known. I guess I did get a coffee, which just about makes it worthwhile 😅 ...and so to work... ...which took over all the remaining daylight hours and beyond... Luckily there is light at the end of the tunnel as this evening is weekly island of  fun, Idler drinks.  Tonight's guest is Adam Buxton, formerly of comedy duo 'Adam and Joe', and most recently of immensely popular podcast fame. Another exceptionally good chat - I'd forgotten how funny Adam could be - with some gre...
Read more

Tales From The Crypt - Tuesday 2nd November 2021

Image
Back to work, of course, so the usual stuff applies. Mid-work video call my GP calls to discuss the progress of my acclimatisation to Sertraline (Sertraline, Sertraline wherefore art thou, Sertraline?) which has gradually changed from sick as a parrot to closer to over the moon, on which basis she agrees to order more and put it on repeat / rewind, all being well.  She also asked about my flu vaccination status suggesting it would be good for my stress levels if I was vaccinated and therefore less of a risk to my wife. Though I believe I have an appointment, when she searches on the system she can't find me, and therefore asks if I can come to the surgery at 12:30 today and she'll jab me there and then. Naturally I take up the offer. Tomorrow E gets double-jabbed: flu and Covid booster (Bleep and...) Mid-morning there's another surprise: the Community Matron arrives to check on E, and is fully up to date with the catheter shenanigans, and luckily E's readings are all fi...
Read more

Lockdown Diary - Thursday 28th January 2021

Image
Work will dominate today, as yesterday and as it will tomorrow, too. Amongst the things I have to do today are some courses on competition law and anti-bribery rules, which will keep me busy for part of the day, at least. Usual start to my day with the added variety of one of the community / district nurses visiting to change the water in my wife's PEG balloon - a new monthly activity. All completed without a hitch, which is always good.  He also came bearing a 'Hello' from a colleague my wife and I know personally, which was nice. Back to work. Tuesdays and Thursdays the carers use the ceiling hoist to lift my wife out of bed and into her special 'tilt-in-space' chair.  She generally doesn't stay out for long, typically no more than fifteen minutes, before returning to bed, but it's a chance to sit differently and help avoid bed sores. Not only that, today - something which always delights the carers - they have changed all the bedding, which I must now was...
Read more