Out

So me + Paul nipped to Saundersfoot and had dinner there, it was spectacularly beautiful but a tourist destination, not much else

Can't multi task

So as Denyse is gonna Skype me s'morning I thought I'd better cheat with my electric razor. So I went into the loo for my morning routine and took a the razor. So I shaved half my face and tried to do other things - to no avail. So I finished half my face and turned off the razor.

Pee, pee, pee, I managed suddenly.

I shaved the rest of my face and turned it off again.

Within 10 seconds I had started my poo

So I can't shave and use the loo simultaneously

Lie In

So my alarm clock goes off Mon - Friday at 8 am. Usually at the weekend I am up any time between 6.30 and 7.45 but today I went to the loo at 6.45 then went back to sleep.

I didn't wake up/get up tol 8.50!!! A lie in

More Fluid

And, although I am shopping for the week tomorrow, me & Gareth had to nip to Morrisons to buy a load of mineral water for me to keep drinking

SLT

And Sarah the SLT came to see me today and did loadsa stuff about me swallowing. She did say that swallowing food my head needs to be bent forward as I have been doing, but we tried it with drinks but I couldn't manage it with swallowing liquid but in the end we decided between us, drink normally max of 2 mouthfuls then look at my plate, head forward to swallow it.

It feels very strange but my swallowing is evidently much better so I need to practise this so it becomes as habitual as eating with my head forward

But it pisses me off big style, I had my accident 10+ years ago and only now am I so well that issues like swallowing matter/can be noticed.

9½ years ago I was too ill for them even to notice issues like this

A Fan

And we had our usual Friday night tea of Naan bread pizza's and Alex hasn't tried one before and he liked it enough to say "I will have to try that at home". Which was nice

Lunchless

And I didn't have lunch before I went to the 1pm gym class today which was OK, but I told Alex to take us to Aardvark to do our shopping immediately afterwards which meant it was much too late for a lunch when we got back here. So I polished off my yoghurt from yesterday and called that lunch.

So roll on dinner now

Much Shopping

And after we went to 4 shops, with a car trip from one to the next, we finally found somewhere that sold proper v shaper pillows, not combinations of 2 pillows like I used last night. We bought one then had to drive to another shop to get pillow cases but in the end we did it. It's fitted now, lets see how it feels later

And it felt fine when I was napping this afternoon

Better

And after sleeping with an improvised v bed thingy I am all in favour of buying a proper one today. I coughed some in bed but my chest feels better and lighter already

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V shaped

So I am in a bed tonight with a v shaped double pillow. It is supposed to be lifting up my shoulders/back as well as my head and so far it does that and is well comfortable

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Cool

And at about 11 o'clock tonight I went out into the hall and it still has an open door to the garden on it and at 11 o'clock it felt cool there. Cool.

Hooray 

Talented Visitor

Then later a "finished my GCSE" Freya came down to see me and was playing my electric guitar, the first time she has played at all in about 4 months and I was a bit jealous at how talented she is

Veg

And me and Paul had a bit of a look in the vegTrug today and pulled up some excellent radishes. There were a few left and we took them indoors and made fresh, organic food with our lunch

Sara physio

So Sara came round all over lunch hour and talked about coughing, showed us loadsa techniques etc, and talked about the after effects of the drug on my arm too

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And she wants to meet me outside gym next Friday and come along and see how hard they work me in my new Friday class

A Week Since

And Sarah the Physio is coming to see me tomorrow and it is also supposed to be the day the injection I had last Thursday takes hold but as since then I have narrowly escaped going into hospital etc I haven't even remembered which bit of my arm is supposed to be better

Dentist

Well, I had to go to the Dentist s'afternoon and she drilled out almost a complete tooth before replacing it. It was a bit scary having someone drill so much but she has finished now

She did comment on how much more mobile/walking I am as she hasn't seen me for 6 months, which was nice

And my teeth felt horrible all the way thru the very nice curry I had made for dinner

And as the pain killers wore off there was no pain or discomfort which I am very grateful for

Choking

When Denyse was here yesterday as she is in charge of "caring" for me it occurred to me, perhaps randomly, that it is now weeks, possibly months, since I have choked

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Warm

So here I am, sitting outside just wearing a t-shirt(1) at a quarter to 12 at night

(1) and trousers etc

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Clean My Teeth

And I am a bit nervous as I have a dentists appointment tomorrow.

They are gonns fix the wonky hole in my tooth

What an afternoon

Later Denyse came to see me, for why I dunno, I think she just had to see me before she went on holiday and she upset me a lot by saying no beer until your cough is mended.

At the time I was angry etc but now I think "Yes, fairy Nuff"

Half way thru our conversation I came over feeling all feint, Denyse said "Are u OK?" but I was, just etc. It is such hard work coughing as I can't breathe while coughing etc