That’s a lovely track to play on the acoustic guitar and the bass line is really good too, if only I could get it right. The lyrics are really nice to sing but I can’t sing them and play bass at the same time – as yet.<\/p>\n
… at all on the dictaphone from last night. And it’s been a while since that happened.<\/p>\n
And it wasn’t because I’d had a really good night’s sleep either. In fact quite the reverse. I don’t think that I slept for more than 5 minutes.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t one of those nights where I lay tossing and turning for most of it but in fact there was all kinds of things going on in my brain – such as it is – and there were all kinds of images and things flashing up behind my closed eyelids.<\/p>\n
It really was quite an extraordinary situation and I’ve never known anything like it. There was no point in grabbing the dictaphone to record anything because it was all happening so quickly.<\/p>\n
But anyway, it was rather a waste of the nice clean bedding if I wasn’t going to enjoy and make the most of it.<\/p>\n
So when the alarm went off I fell out of bed again, totally dead to the world, and went to take my blood pressure. 18.3\/9.5, compared to 18.8\/10.8 at bedtime last night.<\/p>\n
Having done that I went off to take my medication, all of it, and then came back in here.<\/p>\n
With no dictaphone notes to transcribe I tried my best to stay awake. It’s Yoan’s turn to come round to inject me with the Last Resort and to take my blood sample and last time that he came, he found me stark out.<\/p>\n
He had the usual battle to find a vein and then wandered off, leaving me to it.<\/p>\n
And so today I’ve been alternating between working and fighting off waves of sleep, probably more of the latter, but not too successfully either. <\/p>\n
Anyway, I’ve finished off the notes for the radio programme that I started on Monday, and then I’ve been tracking down music for the next one.<\/p>\n
That one is going to be much more complicated and I didn’t have half of the music that I needed. Knowing that I didn’t have it was one thing and tracking it all down was something else completely.<\/p>\n
And when I’d done it I had to work out a way to download it and then to convert it all to the correct format. It took me an age, especially as I was half-asleep for much of the time.<\/p>\n
Eventually though I had all of the music that I needed and it’s all paired off ready for me to write the notes for it over the next few days<\/p>\n
The cleaner came round today and decided to clean one of the shelves in the kitchen because she found a few stains. It appears that a can of fruit has burst somehow and the syrup has been leaking out making a mess everywhere.<\/p>\n
But cleaning the shelves is one thing, putting all the stuff back is another, and then me looking for stuff and trying to find it later is something completely different again.<\/p>\n
One thing that I learnt at a very early age was never to put anything away in someone else’s garage or kitchen. <\/p>\n
When I’m at my niece’s in Canada I’ll happily wash up and dry the dishes but I won’t put the stuff away. You do that and you put it in what you think is the correct place but it isn’t and they can never find it again.<\/p>\n
Yes, in the past I’ve spent hours looking for stuff that people have helpfully put away for me. Mind you, I’ve spent hours looking for stuff that I’ve also put away, so there’s no real difference.<\/p>\n
The blood test results are in. Having stopped the anti-potassium stuff the potassium is now back above the upper limit.<\/p>\n
As far as the rest of the measurements go, while the blood count is holding up for now with this “last resort” injection, the platelets count is now falling well below the acceptable limit and my carcinogenic protein, which should be less than 104.0 is now at 240.5 . The “active” part, that should be less than 11.8 is now at 27.2.<\/p>\n
So I told me cleaner to stand by tomorrow for a new prescription changing more things round, or even giving me yet more medicine.<\/p>\n
Tea tonight was a delicious, really delicious left-over curry with soya yoghurt and a naan bread. It really doesn’t get much better than that, honestly<\/p>\n
As well as that I’ve had the guitars out – the bass as well as the acoustic. I’ve been listening to Al Stewart again and having a play around with a couple of his numbers.<\/p>\n
We all know about ZERO SHE FLIES<\/a>, to whom it relates, this “girl, she’s almost a woman” and the man “from the mountains watching her, biding his time”.<\/p>\n That’s a lovely track to play on the acoustic guitar and the bass line is really good too, if only I could get it right. The lyrics are really nice to sing but I can’t sing them and play bass at the same time – as yet.<\/p>\n
