Am hoping this happy face will make you smile and brighten your day and mine as well as I continue to battle this damned head cold, or perhaps chest cold may be more accurate now. It's OK, I'm recovering but it is taking so long and poor old Phil too is still coughing occasionally as well. It's as well we don't have a dog or it would think we were in competition with it. Candy takes it all in her stride when we either sneeze (that has stopped thank goodness) or cough, a very placid cat is she.
What more can I report? Not much at all really as our unwellness has well and truly kept us indoors although fortunately Phil has been able to make it to the shops for groceries etc., and I am back doing the lunches and cooking dinner. Even the dishes are being done on a regular basis, albeit it only daily and not meal by meal. Two people don't dirty many dishes anyway so why burst our boilers worrying about 2 plates, 2 forks and 2 knives in the sink? I clean up as I cook and either a frypan or griller is no trouble and I use a large glass bowl for cooking our vegies in the microwave and that is washed as soon as the vegies are on our plates. Does that give you the impression I am not a great fan of housework? You are so right. Bed made, dishes washed.....that's what my mum always said.
We, between rainy days, have also been able to keep up with the laundry so clean clothes have been available for both of us. Even got the towels washed last week but still have sheets waiting to be washed. Rain over the past few days but it seems we are due a few fine ones again soon.
Today, at 11.30am I have an appointment with my GP. I had a few tests done a couple of weeks back and I received a letter middle of last week asking me to make an appointment re the results. As kidneys were involved I, as a diabetic, often fear the worst. One of the results that had me worried though, was hypercalcaemia showing up again. That was the reason my endocrinologist sent me to the surgeon who decided I had a parathyroid problem and operated (last October) to remove a couple of those troublesome parathyroid glands. After that the calcium problem should have been solved so what now?? Hopefully, tomorrow I will have the answer.
Today, in Australia (not sure about New Zealand) is the beginning of our spring. In Perth it will be more like winter as our overnight temperature was forecast to be 6ºC (about 43ºF) and our daytime temperature 16C (61F). A brilliant beginning to spring for me if it means summer may be somewhat cooler than usual but I won't hold my breath. Incidentally, saw on the news that Perth has just had it's warmest winter for some time and more than 100mm less than our average winter rainfall. Global warming, cyclic weather patterns or a combination of both? Does anyone really know the answer to that conundrum I wonder.
Hope you are enjoying what I would call a "good week" and, if not, that it will get better as you head towards Friday. I am hoping by next Tuesday I really will have a happy grin on my face.
Good luck Mimise.
ReplyDeleteI hope the doctor's visit goes well and you finally get over that cold.
And a cooler (wetter) summer would be nice. Not holding my breath though.
More tests to further confirm what the problem may be, if any. Concern about the calcium reading so another blood test for that too.
DeleteI obviously sounded a bit 'chesty' so out came the stethoscope and I was handed a script for antibiotics.
As Phil commented to me the other day "Ken certainly does look after us well", and he proved it again today. I'd gone about results of tests and not about a cold but he picked up on it pretty quickly.
If I held my breath until we got a cool summer I'd have expired long before it happened. El Nino is on the prowl again and although it affects our eastern states more than here it does still have some effect on top of which the Indian Ocean is warming.
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteOh dear, these viruses do hang around, don't they? Sounds like you are taking it carefully though; as a single person, I quite understand the dishes scenario - indeed, it is not beyond me to leave washing in the sink for a couple of days, so's to make running the hot water worth the cost, you understand! I can't let it go more than that though - there's enough of my mother in me to get self-disgusted if it amounts to more than the basin will hold!!! Hope that doc's appt proves to be 'just a trip'... YAM xx
As you will see by my reply to EC, I am now on antibiotics and probably just as well considered my being 'frail aged'!!
DeleteI too begrudge using the hot water needlessly. I don't mind in summer as we have a solar water heater but in winter we rely on the booster which does cost money. I feel as long as the dishes are rinsed they will do no harm to anyone.
Guess I will know in a week or two after more tests what the answer will be. No point in worrying though. xx
Hari OM
DeleteAm so pleased you are happy with your doctor, Mimsie; we had a news item here recently about the fact the elderly often get 'shortchanged' in the care department! Yx
I agree with you on the dishes, there's just me, no sense in running hot water for just one breakfast bowl and spoon. Sometimes if there's not much on the sink after dinner, I'll even leave that until after breakfast. Everything gets rinsed, so there's nothing to attract bugs.
ReplyDeleteGood on your doctor for picking up a chest infection. Hope you are much better soon.
Seems I am not the only one content to leave a few dishes, if they are rinsed. I'm glad I am not along in that.
DeleteDr Ken certainly does look after us well. Some GPs don't really seem to care too much about the elderly (I feel my mum's GP was like that) but ours is excellent and we appreciate him for being so caring.