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I have just read all your posts @gennepher. It is a total nightmare situation.
I do hope that you get a good night's sleep and everything goes much better tomorrow.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
I have just read all your posts @gennepher. It is a total nightmare situation.
I do hope that you get a good night's sleep and everything goes much better tomorrow.
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Thank you, I appreciate your message.
I'm trying to go along with I'm going to get the best possible surgeon at the best possible date and time with all these changes... I am saying a lot of affirmations all the time...
 
Fbg 7.6

Am awake
Not doing the sleeping thing
Bathroom visit.
Just 'visited' grandson in hospital bed in Australia. He is not talking! He has just had his tonsils out...

So here is today's creative... It is of some electric leads and and an adaptor, a green broom handle, and a blue plastic packet...
kept calling this app Mirrorgraph, But justice realised the name is Mirrorlab !

Going to try for a bit more sleep but might just do affirmations instead....

My HRV on Visible tells me it is out of range ...too low...
I must take it easy today - not a flipping hope of that...

Have your best kind of day today....
 
jjraak said:
A hug for the lack of sleep.
So hard to stop our minds thinking constantly .


But a win. For the mosaic type art .

Best wishes for the day ahead .xx
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Thank you very much @jjraak
Hope you are doing okay.
I still can't do any lists for packing... My brain (vein - stupid spell check , it had brain when I wrote it )has flatlined in all this.

So I've got three bags out there, feet and legs go in the first bag... This means socks, clothes, anything. Second bag is my middle bit up to my shoulders, what is the stuff I need for that? Which includes clothes, pads, etc
Third bag is neck face head, what do I need for meds I take by your mouth? Brushing comb, food, medsetc

I'll get a fourth bag and anything else I can think of that I can throw in gets thrown in.

Then I can sort it out when I get there... Thanks My brain can cope with this system today ..
 
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Fbg 13.4 again. I'm not happy, and can't explain. Don't think I've overdone the carbs...
@gennepher I hope there is light at the end of your tunnel of stress! I will be thinking of you travelling today. Best advice I can give you on the taxi is to ask the hotel to book it when you check in or even email them in advance to stress how important it is. They will know the locally reliable firms...

Off to the office again this morning, then the hospital this afternoon. Must remember to print off the diaries I've been keeping.

Hope everyone's day is as calm as can be!
 
Thank you so much @Madfarmerswife
The hotel are very slow in responding to emails, for example a day... I will ask when I get there....
By the way, I can't eat as many carbs as you appear to say you were eating. I don't know how many eating but you're probably eating more than I can possibly eat.

I try not to eat more than 20 carbs a day. More than that and then you see higher readings from me. Good luck x
 
gennepher said:
Thank you, I appreciate your message.
I'm trying to go along with I'm going to get the best possible surgeon at the best possible date and time with all these changes... I am saying a lot of affirmations all the time...
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Yes, although you have gone through a nightmare few days it looks like it has ended up with the very best outcome @gennepher
 
6.0 this morning.

Off to classes in a local village shortly. Lovely not having to travel far.

We will take Bonnie with us. She can now do 15 minutes walking twice a day so we can walk a bit further around the rec behind the hall.

Half term next week. Am really looking forward to it.
 
Hug for lack of sleep but a win for the mirrorlab - I think all these creatives deserve an exhibition. There is now space in The Louvre after they recently took down that ghastly old portrait and moved it into it’s own place.
 

Hugs for the disappointing fbg.

Fbg this morning four point four that is an improvement for me because I have been waking up to rather low readings in the low threes.
 
Good morning everyone on another splendid if at the same time chilly and a bit damp start here in the dark and dangerous north. 6.3 this a.m. but a birthday dinner with our daughter and family was priceless.
No idea what we are doing today but a walk down to the sea through the woods might be on the cards - or not, will have to see as Mrs Miggins is not up yet - probably a restless night. She hides the effects of RLS well but needs to be constantly busying herself.
Half term is nearly upon us and we are looking forward to a week of fun and laughter when our grandchildren arrive on Saturday.
Art bit - a line of ink on some wet paper - I’m having a rest.
Hope whatever the day throws at you is handled with ease. Protect your peace of mind. I shall begin by having some koffy.
 

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7.5 at 04.30 today. A bit higher than yesterday, but not too bad for me.

Slept again after I got up - that big chair is comfortable - better than my bed once the arthritis starts stiffening me up.

I have so many projects on that I want to work on but can't decide which to concentrate on. There's an illustrated story I started on years ago, but never finished (am I even capable of doing it any more?), stories started that need finishing, that children's book to get to publication stage (I suppose that's closer to finished than the rest, so I should get that done first). Then there's the painting that I wanted to do, even bought lots of equipment but haven't got around to it yet. Butterfly brain - that's me. Trouble is the family history keeps taking over my mind - that's another book to be finished - a reference for family members. Quite a lot of it is done - records plus stories of lives and times - but I have to keep going with the research and it keeps expanding. Just counted up and on one line I have 105 generations back from Em - back to about 1100 bc! These don't seem to be just legends either, but recorded history. Somehow I feel that it is important to keep at it - don't really understand why, but I have always gone with what seems right to me, so might as well carry on in the same vein.

Oh, I have "Salvage Hunters" on TV at the moment. A programme I have come to enjoy recently. The narrator just said that the town of Inverness was where Macbeth was reputed to have carried out his murderous deeds! I resent that. Shakespeare's yarn was not accurate. Macbeth (not an ancestor but his step son was) was a good king. He did fight many battles and he did engage in battle with Lulach's father - a battle in which Lulach's father was killed. He was also killed in battle many years later by Malcolm Canmore (he was an ancestor). But he was not the murderer portrayed by Shakespeare.
 
Hug for the continued aggro. Best wishes and hoping all goes well for you tomorrow. I'll be thinking of you and saying a prayer or more during the day.
 
Morning all on a dull, damp and archetypal February day here. The infamous challenge, can you do it on a cold February morning/night in, The Brecks in this case, applies. Hugs, thoughts and prayers for @gennepher with the travel, logistics and procedure. Thank you for sharing the creative and a big hug for your grandson. @Madfarmerswife hug for the fbg and today's hospital appointment - don't forget the diary. @dunelm I'm glad you enjoyed the family meal and probably made choices based on joy not carbs. Thank you for sharing the splendid art. Gabby's dollhouse on repeat here to the delight of my granddaughter but much to the chagrin of JKP and MIL: I'm watching cricket (India completely humiliating England just now) even as I type so its all gravy for me. Enjoy as much of Wednesday as possible but don't feel guilt if awful events make that impossible. Everyone has Gethsemane times.
 
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Annb said:
Hug for the continued aggro. Best wishes and hoping all goes well for you tomorrow. I'll be thinking of you and saying a prayer or more during the day.
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Thank you very much @Annb
Thank you for prayers.

I've just had a new text off the hospital saying the time's been changed again.
It is now at 8:00 a.m. same morning, tomorrow, I have to be in

A blooming good job. I did not book a taxi last night.

I've also had to fill in some more paperwork. Official forms, and prove that I am me. Apparently I am now under a male doctor and I've just had to agree for confirmation for the operation with him, prove I am the right person for the operation again and so on.

If they moved the time of the operation again, The earliest they can move it to would be 7:30 because that is the time the cataract theatre opens.

By hook or by crook, I want to get to that hospital for 7:00 a.m. And then I can have a wee before going up to theatre, and I will just sit and wait there.

With this latest development. I have just looked at train times from Aintree. There's a train that will get me just after 7:00 into Liverpool. Then I will get a taxi up to the hospital. If no more changes then I will sit and nurse a cup of tea in the cafe over the road.

I have not caught a train in 25 years, and I am a bit scared. I used to catch trains all the time. It is all on the level, no changes.

Or maybe the hotel will be able to book a taxi for me more easily that early... I will try that option first, now I know I'm going to go in as early as possible.

My flight or fight response has completely gone, I think it is numb now and I have no reaction at all to this latest text...

Talk about a water board torture. ..
 
Two more texts from the hospital confirming and wanting me to go to doctor and confirm again there. I have no idea how many times I've confirmed for this cataract operation.

And an email telling me the same stuff... I have just got to this stage where I am jumping out of my skin each time it vibrates for an email or text. Obviously I'm having to hold my phone all the time to make sure I don't miss any messages from the hospital. If I had not booked a hotel room for the day before which is for today, none of these last minute changes would have been possible for me to accept.

It's almost like nothing fells real in all this...it's dream world....

I am focusing on this time tomorrow morning when I will have my brand new eye, and I will be facing a brand new crystal clear day...

Back to my affirmations...
 
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Thank you very much Ian...
 
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