{"id":18284,"date":"2024-04-30T20:34:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=18284"},"modified":"2024-05-01T20:43:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T20:43:35","slug":"tuesday-30th-april-2024-ive-managed-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=18284","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 30th April 2024 – I’VE MANAGED NOT …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… to break anything today, after yesterday’s fracas<\/em> in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

But what an exciting life I’m leading at the moment where breaking a plate in the kitchen is headline news? I really ought to get a life, and how i wish that I could. I certainly seem to be missing out on an awful lot.<\/p>\n

Mind you, there’s not a lot that I can do. If I go down the stairs to go outside, there’s no guarantee that I can get back up again without a great deal of help. And in any case, with these puttees that I have to wear on my legs, I can’t fit my shoes on<\/p>\n

In other words, my life is a total mess right now and it’s not going to improve any in the near future. The hospital sets a great deal of store in this chemotherapy treatment I’m having by tablet every day but even so, there’s been a deterioration over the last three months that I’ve been taking it<\/p>\n

So if it’s classed as a success, how would I be feeling if I hadn’t taken in?<\/p>\n

And did I tell you how much it cost? Because I’ve seen the receipt. A box of 30 tablets of this stuff costs no less than \u20ac7,000. No wonder that the chemists won’t let me build up a stock of it. They have to pay out for the medication that they order and then submit a claim for reimbursement to the Securit\u00e9 Sociale<\/em>. And if they are as quick dealing with reimbursement as they are in replying to correspondence, no wonder the chemists are worried.<\/p>\n

Another worry that I seem to have is that I’m not able to go to bed at anything like an early time. It was another late night last night by the time that I’d finished everything that needs to be done and that’s getting on my nerves too.<\/p>\n

But I had another good night’s sleep where I don’t remember very much at all. <\/p>\n

When the alarm went off I’d just said goodbye to a girl who was living in the same house as me who’d gone off to some kind of special school or re-education centre because of her handicap. That’s really all that I remember of this. I know that when the alarm went off I was thinking about a woman with a red hand who had something to do with this but I’m not sure where she fitted in to the dream at all. It was a very fragmented one.<\/p>\n

There is a friend of mine who used to go to a re-education centre for her handicap until British Government cuts 20 years ago closed them all down. However it wasn’t her, that’s for certain, and I don’t know of anyone else who might have fitted the bill.<\/p>\n

But I’ve no idea what I meant about the woman with the red hand. That’s a mystery to me too<\/p>\n

Anyway, I staggered into the bathroom and then into the dining area to take my medicine and to set out the place ready for the nurse. The one from last week is now on her week off and it’s the boss for the next seven days.<\/p>\n

When he came he told me all about his trip to New York and how disappointed he was with it.<\/p>\n

However, it’s like most big cities. everyone is so stressed out that it’s unbelievable. I much prefer rural USA where I’ve met some really nice, friendly people on my travels around.<\/p>\n

Most cities are nice to visit but not to live in, but I can’t even remember New York being nice to visit on the occasions that I’ve been there.<\/p>\n

After he left I came in here and prepared for my Welsh lesson. <\/p>\n

Despite the fact that I’d prepared the wrong pages, the group being farther ahead than I’d anticipated, the lesson passed off very well which was a nice surprise. In fact we had a test in which I came third, which was a huge surprise to me, especially as I’d missed the weeks that the exam covered.<\/p>\n

It’s a good job though that I hadn’t gone fourth. I would have had to multiply and that would have been no good at all.<\/p>\n

After the lesson finished I just let myself go and crashed out on my chair. I was gone for almost 90 minutes too, flat-out in the Land of Nod. I really can’t keep going these days<\/p>\n

Once I’d come back into the Land of the Living I chose the music for another radio programme. My task for the rest of the week will be to write the notes for it. But at some point I’ll have to start dictating and editing the backlog of stuff. In the old days I’d do it early on Sunday morning before going to bed but I’m not doing that these days if I have to be up at 08:30 for the nurse. My days of lying in until midday are regrettably over.<\/p>\n

The cleaner came round this afternoon too. She’d been to LeClerc this morning and so she’d picked up some more vegan cheese for me. So cheese on toast is assured at weekends for the next few weeks<\/p>\n

There was some more stuff on the dictaphone too. I can’t remember very much about this dream either but it concerned a girl who for some reason had ended up going back home after moving away and found herself spending the night there unexpectedly, sleeping back in the room that she occupied when she lived there. There was some talk that one of the girls would come to stay with me so I was busy trying to find things to do to amuse her. I came across a board game called Mrs (…so-and-so…)’s Kitchen where people had to take pieces out of the box in turn to try to make meals and shopping lists etc. I thought that that might be a really interesting game for a young person who came to stay with me for the moment.<\/p>\n

The game was certainly interesting You had to pick up the pieces, which wee like the pieces of a jigsaw, with chopsticks, although I’m not quite sure why.<\/p>\n

In the past years ago I used to be able to eat with chopsticks. <\/p>\n

Where we used to go skiing on a dry slope on the Wirral there was a Chinese restaurant down the road where this sweet young Chinese girl worked. One night I asked her to show me how to eat with chopsticks so over the next few weeks she taught me.<\/p>\n

And then I put my cunning plan into action. We were all going for our annual dinner so I asked her whether she would like to come with me, as a “than you” for teaching me how to eat with chopsticks, which had been my plan all along.<\/p>\n

She told me “no”. <\/p>\n

While we’re on the subject of meals … "well, one of us is" – ed<\/em> … tonight’s tea was a taco roll with rice and vegetables, using up some of the left-over stuffing.<\/p>\n

That stuffing that I make is really nice, especially with couscous. And there’s plenty left so there will be a lovely left-over curry tomorrow night for tea. There’s some naan dough left too so a garlic naan bread will be nice to go with it too <\/p>\n

So that’s all that I’m doing tonight. It’s a Bank Holiday here tomorrow and ordinarily I’d be having a lie-in, but not with this perishing nurse coming round every morning at 08:30.<\/p>\n

What I need to do is to finalise my shopping list ready for order on Thursday morning as I’m now running short of frozen veg<\/p>\n

It’s not like the time I was sharing a flat in Manchester with a bunch of students and they sent me to the shop for supplies for the weekend.<\/p>\n

When I returned, I had two cases of beer and a sliced loaf. The students there were enraged. "You fool!"<\/em><\/strong> they cried. "Wasting our money! What on earth are we going to do with all that bread?"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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