Still incarcerated

DB has been moved from CCU to a ward, no idea, when or if he is going to LRI. At least he has a phone so can ring me. I had just got out the shower this morning when he rang. He had another bad fall yesterday, had to go for a scan to see if he had broken anything. It appears not although we await confirmation. He is getting a bit depressed, he says he keeps crying, its frustration more than anything else!!

I had a bad night, was reading and drinking tea at 3am, so did not get out of bed until 9.30, just had a shower when the phone rang....the morning report.

Have a mixed load in the washer and then the towels to do, they will have to go in the dryer, its hissing it down, very grey and overcast.

No real plans for the day, I am trying to get as much rest as I can just now, it will be full on for a few weeks once DB comes home.

I do have a sewing job to do my friends zip has given up on her dressing gown, so I have sent for a new zip, hopefully it may come Monday.

Problem with the TV there is a fine line across it and the bottom of the picture keeps going fuzzy. Need to try and get someone to see to it for me. It looks like we may be going into another lock down, I could really do with doing something before that happens. Fortunately I have enough food in the cupboards and freezer and Sainsbury will, I hope, still deliver. its fresh fruit and some veg I will need.

Supper tonight will be all day breakfast I have 2 links of sausage to use up as well as bacon and tomato. No egg, I had egg yesterday.

Update: After talking with a techie the TV has had it. Disappointed we had not had it that long, but a repair would be more than the TV was worth. Ordered a new one coming on Tuesday, will then have to get rid of the old one.

Toys out the pram

 Apparently DB threw his toys out the pram yesterday, he had a massive blow out when things were said!!! So a Doctor spent an hour with him talking over what was going to happen. Apparently he is to get a CT scan and will then go to a medical ward at LRI.

I must admit I was surprised, he usually keeps blow out to home, however I think they have got the message that things need to be sorted, neither of us have any real quality of life with things hanging over us as they are.

I had my curry last night, half cold, as I was talking to DB on the phone......Paid for it this morning.........I have to nip to Asfordby to collect the embroidery I left to be framed. Then it can go off sometime during November.

I received a copy of the Strawbridges new book yesterday, it makes interesting reading, refreshing what when on during the first year they were in the Chateau. Fortunately for them, living in France for 5+ years, they should not be too badly affected by Brexit.

Booked a grocery slot for Sainsbugs for 9th Nov. by then I should have used up some of the stuff in the freezer. I will have soup at lunchtime, not sure about tonight, doubt it will be fish and chips, might be eggs on toast with jelly to follow.

Not Good

 Yesterday DB was moved to another ward, just after he had spoken to me he went into VF rather than AF, so he has been moved to CCU where he can be monitored better. I did speak to him just after 9pm but he was very shaken up.

I have been to Aldi this morning, so was not expecting him to ring, if I have not heard by lunch time I will ring the ward. They do not have phones there as they do on CDU, so he has to borrow the phone from the desk.

Shopping completed and put away, I treated myself to a chicken Korma for supper tonight......I can only have curry when DB is not here, he cannot stand the smell. I also picked up some baby stuff from DD2's. she has had a new front and back door, they have managed to dead lock the front door from the outside, so she can only get in through the back door. Waiting for the fitters to come and look at it.

Will be putting my feet up this afternoon and reading.

Still there

 DB phoned last night, they are waiting for a bed for him at LRI, I have to nip out this morning, so told him to ring and leave a message if I did not answer the phone.

Chap coming this morning with a letter from the council, the plans for the kitchen and back bedroom have been approved, so we can get the work done........

Not a vast amount done yesterday, I did manage to clean the bedroom and sitting room, but then there is only me here just now and its not getting so untidy as when DB is here.

Soup for lunch, no idea about supper will see what I fancy, might have a ready meal.........

update: DB has been moved to a different ward in the same hospital, the unit he was in is a diagnostic unit and they needed his bed for someone else, so he was moved, they are still waiting for a bed at LRI to become available.

At Last

 After extensive tests they have come to the conclusion that DB's fainting attacks are neurological, so after a CT scan he is being transferred the Leicester Royal. What have I been telling them for more than 2 years???? I knew they were not connected to his heart, but would anyone listen? No!!! He only gets them when he is anxious about something, which is when he is in hospital and does not know whats going on. He very rarely gets them at home........so.........not sure if he is being transferred or sent home and seen as an outpatient.

I had to dry the laundry inside, we kept getting rain showers, so in the dryer it went. I also gave the wet room etc a once over including the floor, was crackered after that, had to have a sit down. 

Spent the rest of the day either reading or watching TV. I cooked the veg from Sunday, and had some of the roast lamb. some in the fridge and some awaiting me putting the electric pressure cooker on to make scotch broth. Soaked the soup mix over night.

The car is going in for service today, they will collect it this morning and return it after I have paid the bill.......I am also expecting the delivery of the long awaited hooping stations due after 10.30 this morning. Soup for lunch.

Expecting a call from DB sometime this morning after he has seen the Drs.

Supper tonight will be egg and chips and some of the rasps in jelly.

What's in a big box like this??

At last !!! the hooping stations. Hooray.

I just need to put them together and start using them. All the way from Aus via manufacture in |China.

Update, just heard from DB he is waiting for a bed at LRI......

  

Another day, another dollar

 DB is back in hospital, with very firm instructions to make it plain we need to have a resolution, I am fast loosing the plot, he has been in and out of hospital more than a fiddlers elbow!! I had a call from the Dr last night, they are going to do more tests to try and find out what is causing his blackouts, its not his heart. He had 4 after he got into the hospital.

I had a reasonable night, put the light out at 12.30pm, woke for the loo and than woke at 7.40, tablet time, the weekly horror.......so it was 8.45 before I got my breakfast.

Washer is on, not so much to wash as DB is not here and also no whites, he has started wearing a vest, so once evry 2 weeks I get a full white wash done.

Wet room and loo to be cleaned shortly. DB will ring when he has seen the consultant.

I did cook the supper, but put half the veg in water in the fridge, will may be cook them tonight and have them with some cold lamb. Enough jelly to keeo me going for almost a week!!

Good Morning..............

 Its a bright and sunny one here. Yesterday the wind ramped up, trees were going every which way and it looks like most of the leaves are off. It has dropped this morning and it looks like being a reasonable day.

Our usual Sunday breakfast, both of us slept well, unbroken sleep for DB, I was awake for a few minutes around 4.30am.

Lamb prepped for supper, no red wine, so garlic and rosemary today. Veggies also done, have not made my mind up about a dessert, might not bother, although I could do rasps in jelly, we do have some cream.

I sewed out another doily yesterday, took a lot longer than the first one, as I had to slow the machine down, there was a little hiccup when the bottom thread ran out, but soon fixed. 

DB continues to sort out the shed in 30 minute bursts. After our neighbour next door died last year, we removed a lot of stuff from her  garden at her families request. DB has sorted through it and put quite a a bit to recycle and some on freecycle.

Our plans re the garden have changed, we have bought the heavy top dressing which suppresses weeds, DB was concerned that if all the plants got taken out from the big border it would be a waste, they had been built up over the past 5 1/2 years, so...........some plants will come out and be potted, mainly the hostas, to keep the snails etc off, the pots can then be stood in the beds during the summer. The very tall lily needs to go into a bigger, heavier pot which will be done shortly. they too can be moved into the bed for the summer. The top dressing we have bought is strulch.......we did have some last year and it did work quite well although it was not put on deep enough to really suppress the weed growth. fingers crossed we do not get an early frost. The ground is very wet just now, but I do need to get on it. 30 minutes bursts......with a chair handy to sit on. I will also need to get some more potting compost, we can get that delivered locally.

So supper tonight is roast lamb, roast spuds, carrot, cauli and calabrese. Raspberry jelly for dessert.

AArrggg DB has just come in he has AF again...........what happens when you cannot get a call to a Dr till Monday????