Good morning!
Yesterday was a very ordinary, fairly dull day once the blood tests were done. I set to and emptied the ironing basked but, inevitably, there is now more which I am determined to do this morning! If I do, that will mean washing and ironing can be off my mind for a few days.
Apart from that, it really was a very 'nothing' day, just like the weather, and I think that today is going to be more or less the same really. Hopefully, by the end of the day, I will have a tidy house ready for the cleaners tomorrow. That's the aim, anyway.
I'm sending all best wishes to my blogging friend, Diane, who has an operation today. Hoping it goes well and recovery is quick.
Have a good day and stay warm and dry!
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Wednesday
Hooray! Yesterday I really enjoyed eating for the first time in a fortnight. When I first got home from hospital, I didn't feel hungry and didn't want to eat all that much, but yesterday was fine. And still no gallbladder discomfort although things did go somewhat Purple Ronnie in the morning. Once that settled, I felt great.
Tuition continues. I had two sessions yesterday and it does feel nice to get back to it. It's been three weeks, you see - half term week, then the week I was unwell and admitted and then last week 'recovering'.
Dinner was nice yesterday. I got the recipe out of one of my low fat cookbooks and basically it was chicken with a limey-mint marinade. Very delicious and one to remember for another time.
Tonight I want to try a lasagne with a topping of cottage cheese/quark. It might work, it might be a horror-monstrosity but I will give it a go and see. Watch this space!
Today I set out early to go to Broomfield for some more blood tests. That particular department opens at 7:00 and I got there at just after then so parking was a doddle. Even at that time there was about 20 mins waiting - people wanting to get to work, I guess.
It's the first time I have tried to park there for a very long time. Since the last time, they've had a big rebuilding project and it's all considerably better now and much, much easier. Now I've found my way around a bit I won't be so anxious next time.
Having done my duty, medically speaking, I have come home to a pile of ironing that really HAS to be done. I will need to use the steam iron and I just hope there's some decent rubbish on the telly!
I'd better get started, hadn't I?
Tuition continues. I had two sessions yesterday and it does feel nice to get back to it. It's been three weeks, you see - half term week, then the week I was unwell and admitted and then last week 'recovering'.
Dinner was nice yesterday. I got the recipe out of one of my low fat cookbooks and basically it was chicken with a limey-mint marinade. Very delicious and one to remember for another time.
Tonight I want to try a lasagne with a topping of cottage cheese/quark. It might work, it might be a horror-monstrosity but I will give it a go and see. Watch this space!
Today I set out early to go to Broomfield for some more blood tests. That particular department opens at 7:00 and I got there at just after then so parking was a doddle. Even at that time there was about 20 mins waiting - people wanting to get to work, I guess.
It's the first time I have tried to park there for a very long time. Since the last time, they've had a big rebuilding project and it's all considerably better now and much, much easier. Now I've found my way around a bit I won't be so anxious next time.
Having done my duty, medically speaking, I have come home to a pile of ironing that really HAS to be done. I will need to use the steam iron and I just hope there's some decent rubbish on the telly!
I'd better get started, hadn't I?
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Tuesday
Good morning, everyone.
I'm feeling very cheerful this morning for lots of reasons.
Firstly, yesterday was another pain free day and I really do think things are settling again. Of course, I am not taking any risks, only gradually reintroducing certain things and I know I will need to stay very low fat probably for evermore, but the poached egg I had for breakfast did no damage at all and neither did the little bit of low fat soft cheese that I slipped into the fish pie for dinner.
I got down to the surgery, got an appointment that meant it was more sensible to wait there and saw a very pleasant GP who sorted stuff out, made referrals. wants me to have more blood tests (to re-check kidney and liver function which sounds pretty sensible) and booked me in for a twelve-hour-strapped-to-a-blood-pressure-monitor-test thingy (it does have a proper name which I am sure Diane will know). I've also booked in for the flu jab and another jab I ought to have had before and can now make appointments online - cheers!
I've had another great night's sleep. I'm not waking with a backache like I was and I do wonder whether it was a sign that things were rumbling on underneath, ready to flare up. I don't know but maybe, and it's nice to wake up without feeling stiff and a bit achy.
I resumed tuition and it was great to get back to it.
So lots of reasons for being cheerful. Fingers crossed that today works out just as well.
I'm feeling very cheerful this morning for lots of reasons.
Firstly, yesterday was another pain free day and I really do think things are settling again. Of course, I am not taking any risks, only gradually reintroducing certain things and I know I will need to stay very low fat probably for evermore, but the poached egg I had for breakfast did no damage at all and neither did the little bit of low fat soft cheese that I slipped into the fish pie for dinner.
I got down to the surgery, got an appointment that meant it was more sensible to wait there and saw a very pleasant GP who sorted stuff out, made referrals. wants me to have more blood tests (to re-check kidney and liver function which sounds pretty sensible) and booked me in for a twelve-hour-strapped-to-a-blood-pressure-monitor-test thingy (it does have a proper name which I am sure Diane will know). I've also booked in for the flu jab and another jab I ought to have had before and can now make appointments online - cheers!
I've had another great night's sleep. I'm not waking with a backache like I was and I do wonder whether it was a sign that things were rumbling on underneath, ready to flare up. I don't know but maybe, and it's nice to wake up without feeling stiff and a bit achy.
I resumed tuition and it was great to get back to it.
So lots of reasons for being cheerful. Fingers crossed that today works out just as well.
Monday, 13 November 2017
Monday
Good morning and welcome to a new week. It's jolly nippy out there although no frost as far as I can tell, not yet anyway,
Yesterday I finished searching through my three low/no fat cookery books and now have a whole selection of likely looking recipes to consider trying. I eliminated all the ones that required me to get obscure ingredients (there were quite a lot) or expensive ingredients or too many ingredients or which would take too long or which I just didn't fancy and I have marked the rest with bits of post-its. There's plenty of variety there, for sure.
In the afternoon Beth came round and it was lovely chatting to her about stuff. Now she is working, I see a whole lot less of her and I miss her quite a lot but she's loving her job, which is great. Alex seems to have settled at uni too.
Today I shall be hammering on the door of the surgery. It been so long since I needed an appointment that I totally forgot on Friday that if you don't phone at eight, you don't stand a chance unless you have registered for online booking, which I haven't - yet. Well, with my hearing I have huge problems with phones so I shall go down, thanking my lucky stars that I am an early riser, so fingers crossed. I'm nervous (I always was where medical GP stuff was concerned, no idea why) which isn't going to do my BP any good but, dear me, it has to be done so it's teeth gritting time.
Once I have recovered from that, I will sort out my tuition and then potter in the kitchen, I think. My idea of using a bit of the dough to create a starter has worked in that it's produced a new loaf but I'm not sure I like the loaf! It's come out a bit doughy and very heavy but perhaps it wasn't risen enough or baked long enough so I will persist a few more times and see.
I'd better stop now and get on with other stuff that always needs doing early morning. Have a great day and stay warm.
Yesterday I finished searching through my three low/no fat cookery books and now have a whole selection of likely looking recipes to consider trying. I eliminated all the ones that required me to get obscure ingredients (there were quite a lot) or expensive ingredients or too many ingredients or which would take too long or which I just didn't fancy and I have marked the rest with bits of post-its. There's plenty of variety there, for sure.
In the afternoon Beth came round and it was lovely chatting to her about stuff. Now she is working, I see a whole lot less of her and I miss her quite a lot but she's loving her job, which is great. Alex seems to have settled at uni too.
Today I shall be hammering on the door of the surgery. It been so long since I needed an appointment that I totally forgot on Friday that if you don't phone at eight, you don't stand a chance unless you have registered for online booking, which I haven't - yet. Well, with my hearing I have huge problems with phones so I shall go down, thanking my lucky stars that I am an early riser, so fingers crossed. I'm nervous (I always was where medical GP stuff was concerned, no idea why) which isn't going to do my BP any good but, dear me, it has to be done so it's teeth gritting time.
Once I have recovered from that, I will sort out my tuition and then potter in the kitchen, I think. My idea of using a bit of the dough to create a starter has worked in that it's produced a new loaf but I'm not sure I like the loaf! It's come out a bit doughy and very heavy but perhaps it wasn't risen enough or baked long enough so I will persist a few more times and see.
I'd better stop now and get on with other stuff that always needs doing early morning. Have a great day and stay warm.
Sunday, 12 November 2017
Sunday
Good morning, everyone. At half past six, it is just starting to lighten up fractionally and it feels chilly. No frost though!
I find I'm sleeping later at the moment. Waking after six is becoming the norm rather than waking between four and five and I'm not complaining. I have the day free so don't need to get started all that early.
Life is slowly resuming normality. After two 'uncomfortable' days, yesterday was much nicer. I take the last antibiotic this morning. All being well, tuition resumes tomorrow so I have a bit of planning to do for the two I did a fortnight ago before being unwell.
I won't miss the antibiotics, I have to say. They are huge, like tombstones. I don't usually have problems swallowing tablets but need great swigs of water to wash it down and even then it feels 'stuck' for a while. Having them intravenously in hospital was a gentle stroll in the park in comparison - in fact, a couple of nights I fell asleep while it was going in! And while I'm on the subject, aren't canulas clever? They don't hurt unless they get knocked and can be removed in the twinkling of an eye. They didn't have them last time I was in hospital which, admittedly, was just under 40 years ago.
I had a visit yesterday from my friend Jackie and her mum and after a while Lesley turned up to on her way to the shops. It was so nice to have people to chat to and we had a good old natter about all sort of stuff. I'm afraid in the afternoon I went to sleep!
Today is another gentle day. Some planning, some washing and some ironing and this afternoon Beth is popping over for a while which is nice. I even have biscuits to offer her. I bought a small packet of shortbread biscuits for my visitors yesterday and, for the first time in ever, have not even been tempted to go at them. It fact, the thought makes me feel a bit yurgh. Interesting!
Talking of feeling yurgh, I think I pinned down what started the discomfort(it was just discomfort, nothing more) on Thursday - some banana pancakes that I made a while ago and froze. I'm afraid the rest has now gone in the bin which goes very much against the grain but needed doing.
Time for coffee, I think, so I will shut up and get going. Have a good day!
I find I'm sleeping later at the moment. Waking after six is becoming the norm rather than waking between four and five and I'm not complaining. I have the day free so don't need to get started all that early.
Life is slowly resuming normality. After two 'uncomfortable' days, yesterday was much nicer. I take the last antibiotic this morning. All being well, tuition resumes tomorrow so I have a bit of planning to do for the two I did a fortnight ago before being unwell.
I won't miss the antibiotics, I have to say. They are huge, like tombstones. I don't usually have problems swallowing tablets but need great swigs of water to wash it down and even then it feels 'stuck' for a while. Having them intravenously in hospital was a gentle stroll in the park in comparison - in fact, a couple of nights I fell asleep while it was going in! And while I'm on the subject, aren't canulas clever? They don't hurt unless they get knocked and can be removed in the twinkling of an eye. They didn't have them last time I was in hospital which, admittedly, was just under 40 years ago.
I had a visit yesterday from my friend Jackie and her mum and after a while Lesley turned up to on her way to the shops. It was so nice to have people to chat to and we had a good old natter about all sort of stuff. I'm afraid in the afternoon I went to sleep!
Today is another gentle day. Some planning, some washing and some ironing and this afternoon Beth is popping over for a while which is nice. I even have biscuits to offer her. I bought a small packet of shortbread biscuits for my visitors yesterday and, for the first time in ever, have not even been tempted to go at them. It fact, the thought makes me feel a bit yurgh. Interesting!
Talking of feeling yurgh, I think I pinned down what started the discomfort(it was just discomfort, nothing more) on Thursday - some banana pancakes that I made a while ago and froze. I'm afraid the rest has now gone in the bin which goes very much against the grain but needed doing.
Time for coffee, I think, so I will shut up and get going. Have a good day!
Saturday, 11 November 2017
Saturday
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
We will remember them.
Friday, 10 November 2017
Friday
Good morning. It's all dark and gloomy here, of course, but everything is warm and cosy inside.
Yesterday was an uncomfortable day. I think breakfast disagreed with me and it just went downhill from there, livened by paracetamol now and again. Didn't get a lot done, especially later on in the day.
Today I must do a bit of tidying because the cleaners are coming and I have a friend coming round tomorrow. Apart from that I have no plans which means I can't fail, doesn't it.
Have a good day, one and all, whatever you do.
Yesterday was an uncomfortable day. I think breakfast disagreed with me and it just went downhill from there, livened by paracetamol now and again. Didn't get a lot done, especially later on in the day.
Today I must do a bit of tidying because the cleaners are coming and I have a friend coming round tomorrow. Apart from that I have no plans which means I can't fail, doesn't it.
Have a good day, one and all, whatever you do.
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