{"id":18275,"date":"2024-04-26T20:20:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=18275"},"modified":"2024-04-27T05:45:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T05:45:34","slug":"friday-26th-april-2024-its-flaming-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=18275","title":{"rendered":"Friday 26th April 2024 – IT’S FLAMING DIFFICULT …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… trying to explain something to someone who doesn’t want to listen but only wants to speak.<\/p>\n

The doctor’s surgery rang me up at the end of the afternoon to tell me that the blood test this morning had failed and needs to be done again, so he’s prepared a prescription and it’s stuck on his noticeboard to be picked up.<\/p>\n

Ordinarily what would now happen is that I would ask my faithful cleaner to pick it up tomorrow. I’d then show it to the nurse on Sunday and she’d have to go away to fetch the equipment and come back on Monday to take it<\/p>\n

However I had an idea.<\/p>\n

The nurse’s office is in the same building so I rang her up to see if she was going into her office before coming here. If so she could pick up the prescription, fetch what she needed from her office and the blood test would be done on Saturday morning, two days earlier.<\/p>\n

Simple enough? <\/p>\n

You have absolutely no idea how complicated and involved the whole procedure came once the nurse answered the ‘phone. A simple “yes I am going into the office first” or “no, I’m not going into the office first” was all that was required.<\/p>\n

Instead it turned out to be more like “War and Peace” and I’m still not convinced that my message was understood. We’ll find out in the morning, I suppose.<\/p>\n

Last night I was in bed early for a change, which was very nice, but once more it took an age to go off to sleep which was a shame.<\/p>\n

Once I was asleep though I didn’t move an inch. Not even to reach for the dictaphone because there’s nothing recorded on there from during the night. No-one came to join me on any nocturnal ramble, which is a pity.<\/p>\n

When the alarm went off I fell out of bed, switched it off and then staggered off to perform the usual morning routine.<\/p>\n

More medication than before, of course. I swear that you can hear me rattle as I walk with all of the pills that I’m taking.<\/p>\n

Once I’d washed down everything I laid out the dining area as she likes it and then made the dough for the batch of bread for the weekend. Very important, that.<\/p>\n

For once, the nurse missed her aim with the blood test and had to have a second go. She’s usually quite good at finding the vein compared to her colleague who struggles. She then dressed my wound and put on my puttees.<\/p>\n

Next stop was to prepare a shopping list for my cleaner. Mushrooms, cucumber and one or two supplies from the chemist’s. The nurse told me that we were running low of certain things<\/p>\n

When the bread was ready and baked I made myself some cheese on toast in the air fryer and had it for a late breakfast \/ early lunch along with a nice, hot, strong coffee. That ought to cheer me up.<\/p>\n

This afternoon I’ve been going through my shopping list because at some point next week I need a delivery and I’ve forgotten half of the stuff that I need. I bet that there will be a few items missing too when I finally send off the order because I’m really confusing myself these days.<\/p>\n

Fighting off (sometimes unsuccessfully) several waves of sleep, I finally wrote the blog entries for last week when I was in hospital and didn’t have the travelling laptop with me. Thanks to what’s available at ARCHIVE.ORG<\/a> and various other similar sites. I have a huge library of films and books on the computer and what with all of the music, I’m never short of things to pass the time, apart from all of the work that I need to do.<\/p>\n

While I was doing all of that, the cleaner came round and whizzed through the apartment. Now it looks as if someone respectable lives here, and we can’t go having that.<\/p>\n

Tea was a vegan salad with chips and some of these vegan nugget things. Really nice it was too There’s nothing like a good salad <\/p>\n

So if I’m lucky I might have an early night tonight ready for the battle with the nurse tomorrow. She’s not going to be too happy, but I can’t help that.<\/p>\n

But nurses are never very happy anyway. I remember once seeing a nurse walking down the corridor of a hospital with … errr … part of her upper body uncovered
\n"What’s going on here?"<\/em><\/strong> I asked
\n"It’s the trouble with these Junior Doctors"<\/em><\/strong> she said. "They never put anything away when they’ve finished with it"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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