Fed up

My life is ebbing away during lockdown! I don’t get out of the house and I cannot get into our garden, wheelchairs and steps don’t mix. The getting down them would be relatively fast but the getting back up there lies the problem. Or more correctly there lies me at the bottom of the steps!! Today our garden has been alive with birds, baby’s begging for their mums to feed them other recently fledged trying to learn how to land on the feeders or even on the clothesline before trying to negotiate the scary feeders. Lockdown has stopped us leaving the confines of the house but today I am fed up, I hope tomorrow is a better day 👍

Geraniums are first to bloom

Geraniums have started to bloom 

Time flies

It has been ten days since I last posted so first off an update on the plant’s,  Heather is watering everything daily and sometimes twice a day. The Geraniums have flowers and some Livingstone Daisies are  poking their heads above the compost. So all good in the flower department. Today has been a mixed bag. I woke up feeling naff and have slept most of the day waking only for fluids and chats to Hev. Now 10:45 pm and Heather wants to settle down for the night I am wide awake. So goodnight world let’s hope for a better tomorrow 👌

Wheelchair gardening

I have to be hoisted in and out of the wheelchair as my legs and most of my body no longer works, S when it comes to wheelchair gardening I actually cannot do any. But Heather does the graft and I do the buying and when the purchases arrive I supervise. Today Heather planted out three Geraniums that arrived by post yesterday. eBay is my go to place after being ripped off by a big plant supplier the plants they sent out as mature plugs were so tiny the must have been terrified to be out alone in the big wide world and to be honest out of 108 plugs less than half survived. The eBay purchases have all come from individual sellers who love plants and who have taken photos of the very plants I have received. Today’s ones had flower buds and we could make out two of the colours. We have three more arriving soon all a deep red from another eBay seller. 

The plug plant escapade was a learning experience and future purchases will be eBay based or from garden centre visits when I feel brave enough to leave the safety of home. The way it’s looking I won’t be going out until the new year, notice I am not specifying which new year! So Heather is the muscle and I am the brains of our gardening escapades. Here’s to all the eBay suppliers of flowers.👍

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose

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Another MS hug or inflammatory levels raised again

I had a difficult evening yesterday and my body reacts badly to stress but today has been a total wipeout.  I don’t normally sleep more than six hours but last night I managed nine. Heather woke me and I drank a cuppa took my tablets spurned the offer of breakfast and went straight back to sleep. Proper heavy sleep, only waking when disturbed by the Asda delivery man or Heather waking me to drink some water or in the case of one of my cups of tea spill it making an awful mess. 

I have just a few weeks ago finished antibiotics for high levels on my inflammatory markers whatever they are! I was sleeping eighteen hours a day. The question is do I shout or do I wait and see?  I have shouted to earl before and it was nothing and I have waited and been hospitalised so what do I do? 

Hospital appointment and masks

I had an appointment to go to Canterbury hospital today. My catheter has been blocking a lot recently and it was decided to change size, the district nurse tried but the bigger one would not go into the smaller hole. I should explain that I have a supra-pubic catheter. I changed from urethral due to amount of infections and must say I am very pleased and now get lots less infections.  We arrived at the hospital early because there was so little traffic and when we went in we were wearing masks, the nurses asked would we like them to mask up, YES!  They explained from the 15th everyone will have to wear masks but until then they would do what the patient is comfortable. Personally I can’t see why wait eight days do it now. Well that was another day for me with Multiple Sclerosis. I hope your day has been okay. I’m going back to sleep I came to bed when I got home and am still tired, MS wears me out doing nothing so a trip to hospital has exhausted me!