Saturday, 30 June 2012
Bathies
And I had another bath tonight. Good lord, can I be this clean?? All went well, with my new bath rack stopping me having to stretch to put soap down etc. All went well until I let the water out, pressed up, got about half way up and stopped going. I had to shout "Help" until Ed came and fixed it, luckily he managed and didn't have to lift me out but the whole thing was unsettling
Walking
So this morning I got up and walked into the kitchen pushing my new pushable chair, then pushed it into dining room etc. After lunch I thought "Enough walking" and sat in my wheelchair for the first time today
But it feels wrong wheeling anywhere so obviously my brain in getting better which it a first step....
More Dongling
And today we had to go to another shop in town to buy another Dongle for them to connect laptop email etc, but this time we gave the chappie the postcode here and he said "Ah you want one of these, then" so we bought it and the connection on that is nearly twice as fast as my dongle so we swapped over as they need next to no interweb connection
Shopping
Then we nipped into town for some bits for them, a dongle to connect their email etc then it occurred to me. Organic Tomato Purée, to make pizzas. Waverley Stores don't sell 'em, Morrison's don't sell 'em, Tesco's don't sell 'em, Lidl don't sell 'em etc...... we had tried every shop for miles around, apart from Aardvark. So we went there, some difficulty getting in but we managed, I asked and she supplied me. Bother, I used to work there but it is not very wheelchair friendly, so I haven't been there for months, but we did it
My First Night
Gosh, so I slept for my first night in the real world last night...... It was a but strange but that's just because I have got used to being somewhere else.... It was cool
Friday, 29 June 2012
'Puter Chair
So today I was able to look at the chair which arrived 2 days ago at Lon Ty Cwm and we finally transported it here today and just wow, it is comfortable to sit in, slightly mobile/turning around when seated in, and walkable behind and pushable, it has a grip on the back and I think I may well walk more rather than 'chairing it now
Buns
Buns. I am sitting here having a cuppa tea and a bun that our new neighbour dropped off earlier
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Quick Carrier
Good lord, this team to move me is eficient.
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MOS
And I am sitting outside s'morning and a member of Leonard Cheshire staff said "How u feelin'?" and I had to reply "Missing u already"
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From An Establishment To The Real World
Today I am moving out of here to a proper (posh) house in a posh street.
Thursday, 28 June 2012
Once a month folkism
Then tonight we went to the once a month folk club (noisy) in Carmarthen with an extra MOS shadow shifting and he enjoyed it
Unhectic Nooneraft
Then we hung about here, getting bored, no more moving to do, not going out on principle, just.....
At least Ixion is fixed once more. It went off-air yesterday coincidentally after I disconnected broadband to test my new Dongle, when we reconnected email and web worked but there was no Ixion coming thru....
Hectic Morning #436
Lordy, so s'morning Ed The Tall Person came in, did my feet then started filling yet more boxes with stuff from my kitchen, and good lord, after a few trips it really is beginning to look like my new house
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Hectic Day #34.9
So s'morning Tim and Dicky (who is shadow shifting ATM) came in here, they did my feet then we set off for High and Mighty, a shop in Cardiff that is designed for us fatties . It was full of fashionable clothes which were in a sale ATM so I spent £253.02 on a pair of trousers, 2 pairs of jeans, a couple of open necked shirts, a couple of tops to go over that and a coat to keep me dry. Just blinking flip but wow, it was impressive
Then we had a lunch at The Harvester in Cardiff, which was lovely, if I had a veggie burger and chips againThen went to the PC shop and bought a Dongle in case my broadband isn't working straight away on Friday. Hopefully it will be but I had permission to JIC buy summat
After all this we had to find somewhere to cut a set of keys for Herbie and apparently I am getting a Keysafe in a coupler of days free off my social worker
Sleeping at Herbie
So yesterday I napped in the bed in the guest room at my new bungalow yesterday. As I was getting my MOS said "It's low, call me and I will help u get out". I napped then sat up, thought "It IS low innit, pulled my wheelchair closer so I could reach it with #both# hands and stood up, all by myself
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Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Scootering
So at my new bungalow today, when we left one of the neighbours kids, knee high to a grasshopper, was riding his scooter up and down the street outside. He wasn't in any danger and I thought "How lucky are you?". A kid, about 5 or 6, on a scooter in the street out the front of his house? Some of us are lucky to live somewhere that safe.....
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Dinner At New House
And today I was a bit concerned during our busyness with moving furniture, I was a bit nervous and said "I wanna go out and eat with Toby because my kitchen is such a mess" but Paul was a bit adamant so we took Toby to Tesco's and bought some stuff then we had the first meal at my new house. Cooked by my staff because I was in a right state but we ate there, thanks to them
Loo Seat
And I eventually got it together to spend a few quid on a new loo seat, one that I can stand up from etc without shouting "Help"
Dicky-ness
And Dicky my new MOS has started work as my assistant today. He is shadow shifting to find out how/why etc
Monday, 25 June 2012
Folking
So here I at Llanelli Folk Club like I am 2 weeks a month. We got here, went round the back as usual. Nowt there. Erm... we were about to leave when someome else showed up. Oh, apparently it is in the main bar tonight and not in the back room as usual. Up some steps and it was. Very strange not being in charge as usual but....
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So as we r here in a transplanted Folk Club we have got some new fans, who were just here for a beer and have been rather impressed with the Folkitude
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Shopping And....
Then we nipped to Waverley stores s'morning then nipped to the post office to get a redirect mail form, as we are doing it like this it is proving cheaper than doing it online, which wouldn't work as my bank card address is different than mine now
Then later s'afternoon we nipped back to Shaws the Drapers and bought a blackout thingie which they ordered for us
Sunday, 24 June 2012
Strange Memory
I was reading Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows again tonight and it mentioned the Peveralls (noisy) but I thought Peveril Of The Peak, pub in Manchester and Google says I was right. How strange, I have no memory of drinking there but I must have walked past it on the way somewhere else 20 years ago
Help
Well today, for the first time in ages, no MOS will come and help me. Fair enough. But what is their first duty every day? To tighten up my shoelaces and to tighten up, put on properly, my splint. But no-one here today so I had to ask a member of Leonard Cheshire staff to help......
But what is there to do all day? I can look out the window, go sit out the front, go sit out the back....
Saturday, 23 June 2012
Neighbours
Gosh, I can't wait to see one of my female new neighbours, hopefully with said chap attached, when I see them I will say "Gosh, god said 'Love thy neighbour, wow, I think I might have it easy'"
Busy Day
Gosh then we nipped out and it started being well busy etc. First of all we went to the mobility place in Carmarthen to get a new loo seat but we got there at about 12.15 and the sign said "Closing at 12 on Saturday"
Then we went to Curry's to buy a selection of phones for the new place, every room shall have 1, all linked to the same land line but if someone in room 1 wants to speak to room 2 they simply press 2 and it rings differently, just in room 2
Then we loaded Paul's van up and headed back to Herbie The House with another load. Then we came back here for lunch.
Then we loaded more in the van and went to Herbie via a curtain shop where we were able to buy white blackout things to make my curtains work etc and we also nipped into Tesco's and bought some more effective Hayfever remedy. At last we went back to Herbie with a load of bits from the kitchen etc and made up the spare bed for the first time with the duvets etc we bought last night and today
Then we went to Curry's to buy a selection of phones for the new place, every room shall have 1, all linked to the same land line but if someone in room 1 wants to speak to room 2 they simply press 2 and it rings differently, just in room 2
Then we loaded Paul's van up and headed back to Herbie The House with another load. Then we came back here for lunch.
Then we loaded more in the van and went to Herbie via a curtain shop where we were able to buy white blackout things to make my curtains work etc and we also nipped into Tesco's and bought some more effective Hayfever remedy. At last we went back to Herbie with a load of bits from the kitchen etc and made up the spare bed for the first time with the duvets etc we bought last night and today
In The Sky With Diamonds
This morning Paul said "We need to go and buy a Lucy..."
"A Lucy?" I said
A "Loo seat" he repeated
"A Lucy?" I said
A "Loo seat" he repeated
Friday, 22 June 2012
Weary 27
Aargh, then after buying stuff we came here and faffed for a bit then went out to Tesco again looking for more furniture for my new house to no avail, then went to Waverley stores and did shopping and met up with Freya, who we took out for dinner as my head is in bits mid move, then we took her over to Herbie where her and Paul spent hours putting together new desks and unwrapped a new filing cabinet etc
More Shopping
Good lord, this morning we were off buying more furniture and then we came back here and loaded a wardrobe from here too, so the van is looking a bit full ATM
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Thursday, 21 June 2012
Nooneraft
What an afternoon. First of all I went to gym where it was really strange talking to stroke victims who are a lot less mobile than me about how I used to be a lot less mobile then they are now, but just keep at it. I did and look how well I am now.
Then we nipped to supermarket, bought some blueberries and salad and a pint of milk to leave in my bungalow because we were going there to wait, so we may as well have a brewTHEN the representative of the bath lift supplier was coming out to try one in my bath, rather he was coming to fit one and let me try it. Just good lord, I immediately bought one off him and want to use it
Morning
So s'morning we have creamed my feet, tried to set up a mail redirection service with Royal Mail which refuses to accept my card so a bit stuck. Ed is currently in the garden trying to beat the melted plastic off the rest of my oven
And he has just about finished nearly all the plastic is off, about 98% so not too bad. As I will be leaving here in about a week I am not too bothered
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Pi##ing
So here I am sitting in a Folk Club tonight, it is about 10.50 and I haven't had a piss since I left my house hours ago
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Oven Crisis
So tonight I switched on't oven and want to bed for ½ on hour to nap. Got up, opened the oven to put food in and UGH. It looks like a small piece of plastic was sitting on the top shelf and had melted and dripped down making a stuck-on mess on all the shelve and a bigger mess of the bottom.
More Purchasing
Then later today we went and tried out a Bath-Lift which seemed really comfortable, but he is bringing it to my new home to try tomorrow afternoon, then we will decide yeah or nay
And we bought a posh armchair too, it raises electrically etc
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
What An Afternoon
So after lunch we went to Leekes of Cross Hands and nearly bought a table and chairs, then at the last minute we walked over to Happy Home Furnishers which was a bit cheaper and nicer and there we spent far too many pounds on a lovely table and chairs which we then loaded in the back of Paul's van and then came home for my nap, while I had my nap Paul and Dicky (my new MOS) took them to my bungalow. Then we met up with Toby and I said "Too mad, lets go out to eat" so then we went to Frankie and Bennys where I was again sitting down in a proper chair to eat, then we went back to Herbie and made up the table and chairs which looks beautiful through the window on the way out
Standing Up
Then at gym s'morning I was doing my stand up from a chair. Today I tried it, for the first time in 9 years, I tried to stand up from the low down chair, without a cushion. First time I failed, but every time afterwards I succeeded. I could stand up properly. They are called sit to stand
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Monday, 18 June 2012
Walkies
So on the way to somewhere else tonight we stopped off at Morison's to buy a packet of oats to make summat with Toby tomorrow. I wheelchaired thru the gates then stood up and walked, to the middle of the shop, turn left and walk 4 aisles, turn right walk to the end. Pick up your goods and return. I got about 1/2 way back and asked for my wheelchair for a sit. Sat still until rested, stood up and walked rest of way to till. My walking is improving
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Expensive Shoppping
Lordy that was an expensive shopping trip. Not only did I need my usual items I also needed toothbrush heads, tooth paste, floss and washing powder
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Sunday, 17 June 2012
So it does work now?
OK Neil, sent as an email from ur phone and it HAS worked.
VBG
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Father's Day
So Ed came in and did my feet s'morning, later Toby and Freya are coming over to wish me happy fathers day and let me buy them a lunch
And it was lovely, me, Toby and Freya sitting at a table together, (no wheelchair involved) and Ed was sitting across the way by himself, it was excellent. I was a bit nervous being out with both of them but it was fine. They were interesting companions and didn't row. Much!!
Saturday, 16 June 2012
Bed Making
After my feet me and Ed went over to my new bungalow and put together the single bed, for the staff room. Gosh there were only 8 little bolts screwed into the corners but it seems really solid.
After lunch we will head back and do the double spare bedWhich we did, good lord but it is starting to look like a home!!
Friday, 15 June 2012
Lordy, lordy, lordy
What a manic day it has been.
First of all Paul came round and did my feet, then we experimented with some strange steps up to the van to enable me to get in, then we went and bought some beds (and unrolled the mattresses) then nipped home for some lunch. After lunch we went back out this time to Curries which Paul had phoned s'morning and said "Don't deliver Wednesday, we will pick 'em up today". First of all we contacted that Toby chap and said "Can we have a lift", picked him up on the way then delivered my fridge, fridge freezer and washer/drier
First of all Paul came round and did my feet, then we experimented with some strange steps up to the van to enable me to get in, then we went and bought some beds (and unrolled the mattresses) then nipped home for some lunch. After lunch we went back out this time to Curries which Paul had phoned s'morning and said "Don't deliver Wednesday, we will pick 'em up today". First of all we contacted that Toby chap and said "Can we have a lift", picked him up on the way then delivered my fridge, fridge freezer and washer/drier
Then I met Freya but she didn't have time to come to mine as the Girl Guides were going out somewhere so we had to go to that McDonald's for dinner then drop her off very soon
Thursday, 14 June 2012
New method
So does this work, sending an email from my mob?
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And it did work, so I can fill in Blogging if I am out and about. :)
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Out&About
Then this afternoon we had to go to Curry's and say "Don't deliver Wednesday as no support will be given" can u come after 10AM (We told 'em why) on Tuesday.
Then we went to Dream's and checked out the beds that hopefully we will be buying from there next Tuesday.
Then we nipped into Morrison's and bought more salad and blueberries
Then we went to Dream's and checked out the beds that hopefully we will be buying from there next Tuesday.
Then we nipped into Morrison's and bought more salad and blueberries
Sian Evans
So s'morning my new Social Worker came to see me, she seems OK but I slightly resent needing support like this
Chiropodist
So this morning I was in the loo having a pooh when my BT phone rang. I couldn't answer it then my mobile rang. I couldn't figure out how to switch the call on so someone then left a voice message which I can't get back because it is not my proper phone. I looked on "missed calls" it said "Chiropodist" so I phoned her, she didn't answer so I left a message. She phoned me back 10 minutes later and agreed to come in 10 minutes as tomorrow she can't come, that was my original appointment but she needs to speak to a doctor instead of coming out tomorrow
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Not So Weary Now
And I got up s'morning 3/4 of an hour before my alarm went off s'morning so, at a guess, I am better, rested now
Monday, 11 June 2012
Weary
Gosh, so s'morning I had to go and 1 ) Take my phone back to the shop to get it fixed (a), 2) Get some shopping in Waitrose and 3 ) Get the rest of it from Morrison's. Yesterday afternoon we went out and bought the white goods, fridge etc, for my new house, they do not need to be delivered quickly so they will deliver them free next Wednesday. Then I had to spend some hours putting my pics from Belfast on my website. I have done so much and I only had ½ a nights sleep last night so I decided not to go out Folk Clubbing tonight
(a) So I am currently using a loan phone which seems really strange, no interweb
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Home Again
Well so today was spent at my Mum and Dads house as we needed to leave the hotel early and we didn't set off for Wales until nearly dinner time. Eventful trip but it is now really late and I am home in Wales again
Last Night
Good lord, so last night I met up with Stephanie and Floyd, the Cool Person (Rajesh). I haven't seen Steph for 8 years and she commented on how much better I was, able to hold a conversation now whereas last time she spoke to my Mum and I could only chip in. Rajesh I haven't seen for 25 years so..... It was excellent to see then both and catch up
Saturday, 9 June 2012
What A Day #27
Well, what a day.
First of all s'morning me and Paul went shopping in the middle of Belfast. Gosh, you didn't used to be able to drive there, there were security barriers all over it but now just a confusing one way system. Anyway we bought a Leprechaun for Pauls 6 yo son.
Then after that we met up with my parents and stayed in their house and ate loads.
Then we went to my Auntie Dorothy's house and spoke to her for ages. 1) She was impressed with how much better I am and 2) We looked at photos of her daughter getting married, in my head Claire was still about 15 but she is married with 3 little 'uns now
First of all s'morning me and Paul went shopping in the middle of Belfast. Gosh, you didn't used to be able to drive there, there were security barriers all over it but now just a confusing one way system. Anyway we bought a Leprechaun for Pauls 6 yo son.
Then after that we met up with my parents and stayed in their house and ate loads.
Then we went to my Auntie Dorothy's house and spoke to her for ages. 1) She was impressed with how much better I am and 2) We looked at photos of her daughter getting married, in my head Claire was still about 15 but she is married with 3 little 'uns now
Friday, 8 June 2012
Dinner
So for dinner tonight we just ate here, so Paul sloped off, left me with Mum and Dad and Gareth. We sat around for a bit then were joined by David and Nora. So we sat down at dinner table, ordered drinks and said "Give us 5 minutes longer to choose food" then another waiter came to our table and said "Bottle of champagne from Rajesh RanaS the friend I havent seen for 25 years but am seeing tomorrow. Then we had a delicous dinner and drank another bottle of champagne with Dads birthday cake
I can't cope
Lordy what a day. My father drove us to his housw s'morning in his car. While we were there he went and fetched my Auntie Margaret and Uncle Hubert from their house to see me, they haven
t seen me since b4 my accident so it was a bit strange. After they were taken back I was pushed along to see the house I lived in until I was 11 and 2 or 3 streets up the much bigger house my parents lived in until after I left Belfasr
t seen me since b4 my accident so it was a bit strange. After they were taken back I was pushed along to see the house I lived in until I was 11 and 2 or 3 streets up the much bigger house my parents lived in until after I left Belfasr
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Dentist
Then we were going back into town and I thought "Gym" but then I realised that we don't go there on a Wednesday so I was looking at my diary on my phone to see. I hadn't got it to load yet when we turned into the dentists car park. Oh yes, I had forgotten, the hygenist had been too brutal and knocked out one of my fillings a fortnight ago so I am now happy with all my teeth fixed
On the way to the dentist we called into Waverley stores to say "Won't see you this Friday"
Llanelli
Then I got another email saying that my new kettle had arrived so we headed out to Llanelli to pick it up. So now I havve a kettle which stops heating the water at 96° so I can make proper nice filter coffee without waiting for it to cool from 100° then guessing when it has cooled enuf
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Tea
Then we had to go miles away to pick up that Toby who was stranded at his girlfriends house when he was s'posed to be cooking my dinner. He came back here and got stuck into making a very complex but delicious dinner.
So I have said that this was so complex next time we will cook some Brownies and he can take most of them away
Busy
So first thing s'morning, after my cream etc, we went to Dreams to pick up a price for a single bed for the staff room. I had requested that someone pay for a double but they protested and said the room will be too full with one so I saved the funder about £800 by changing it to a single
Then we went around town looking for a birthday present for my father but they were all costing more than the £2.50 I had imagined
Then we came back here and ate lunch
Then went out to More Reasons To Shop At.... to replace 2 ingredients for Toby's cooking today. I had bought them for last week but he couldn't come and they had gone OOD
Monday, 4 June 2012
Switch Off Machine
And during the course of today "someone" told me that my parents had said at some point that the doctors told them that when they switched my "keep him alive" machine to off that they expected me to die. Thank god my stubborness worked
Trousering
So this afternoon we tried to find some trousers to fit me. Dunno, I am not that fat but they won't go round my waist, where do fat folk shop?
Sunday, 3 June 2012
Proper Shower
And I had another proper shower tonight. It has come so straightforward that it is probable as easy as washing my pits and my bits at the sink. Getting dried is still hassle but practice......
Tonight I went out the front for 5 minutes with no shoes on, to properly dry my feet. It was a bit cold but seems to have worked
Dull noon-er-aft
Then this afternoon we had very little to do. Tiny was tapping away at the laptop and I was doing........ bu*ger all
Out'n'about
So me and Tiny went out trying to buy Chino's today. No where sells big enough ones for a fatty like me and buying online won't work as they won't be posted until Wednesday, after the bank holidays, and as I need 'em for Thusday when I go to Belfast it will be too late
And during our look about we had to go into Boots and buy some anti-hayfever medicine. There was a branded drug thingy at £3.75 for 10 or a Boot's own medicine which contained exactly the same quantity of the same drug which only cost £2.25 for 10. Which was buy one get one free. So guess which I bought?
Up Pillows
And I slept on my up pillows for the first night last night and I must say it is much better, about 1 inch higher than on my old pillows but I like it
Saturday, 2 June 2012
May
So a month ago I said "Hooray, hooray, the first of May, outdoor sex begins today" but I am still partnerless
Rehab
Well today we were going out in the car to my new home, away from "here". I got in the car, put a CD I haven't listened to in ages on and the first song made me join in loudly and give them the fingers to the office here as we left. "No, no, no"
Whoops
Earlier we took a couple of boxes, which we emptied there, down. Then I went for a nap, as I lay down it occurred to me "Timmy, did we get the anti allergy covers off those s pillows we put down s'morning" meaning they should be on the bigger pillows on my bed now?
So we had to nip back down later and get 2 pillow covers
Timmy Shopping
So s'morning me and Tim went and looked around Curry's and Dream's and wrote down the serial number of the fridge, the freezer, the bed I will buy next week after Belfast. So we will tell Anthony cost, he will send me the cash while I am away then we will go shopping when I am back. And as we are buying it all from just 2 shops there will only be 2 deliverys to wait for
And we bought a thermostat kettle for making proper filter coffee from Asda, we will pick it up from Llanelli next WednesdayAnd we bought 2 bigger wider pillows to replace the 2 on my bed, one on top of the other was too thick, one by itself was too thin so I needed fatter, broader, pillows
Friday, 1 June 2012
Sitting Outside
So I am sitting outside eating sh*t while Paul is packing the first of my boxes of "stuff to take when you move" then we will nip over and start to fill my house
Which we did, but forgot to bring boxes back today
On The Way Back
Then on the way back we popped into Morrison's so I could get more Blueberries and Paul could get a salad for his lunch, then when we came back here they said "Come to our Jubilee Barbecue" which I thought we had missed but went there for a veggie burger and a glass of wine. For free. So Paul will eat his salad at tea time and I will eat mine from yesterday too
Ho Hum
So after getting up early etc we went to Singleton Hospital for my eye test. First of all I was checked out how I am doing with both eyes, good lord, my left eye is better than most peoples, better than 20/20 vision and my right eye is improved since last time, it was 2 lined down the chart from last time I was tested
But he did say that he thought my eyes had lost the ability to look at the same thing, so even if they were both looking forward there would still be a double vision issueBut he did say how complex the operation had been, separating blood vessels from the eye then moving the eye and reattaching still complete blood vessels.
He did say mine was probably the best operation he had done in England and Wales during his career
Early To Bed, Early To Rise....
So I had to set my alarm clock extra early s'morning 'cos I have an eye appointment at Singleton Hospital in Swansea, and I still woke up, and got up, up 10 minutes before it went off s'morning
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