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Anniversary coming up!
Its nearly a year since I spent a terrifying, long night struggling to breathe, feeling my heart race and hiccough, wondering if I was going to die! I had had a big few months at the start of 2016. Deciding to retire is what I called it but really it was walking my wounded self […]
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Who’d be dead and missing out on all this fun?
2.15 am. Knees awake and letting me know. Sitting in the recliner. Dog is snoring in his bed, apart from that, the house if blissfully silent. I am swathed in a blanket and have a rug I have knitted wrapped around my shoulders. It’s a bit chilly. I wonder what sun up will bring and […]
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Greetings from misery farm.
I’m miserable, so miserable down on misery farm! i remember this bit of the song from my childhood. It was sung in a mocking way whenever someone in the house was down in the dumps in order to snap them out of it. Well I have been singing it to myself tonight! I had an […]
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Farewell “Invictus”!
On June 23rd 2016, I took possession (!) of my with me for life pacemaker. Not exactly how I expected to start my retirement but it’s kept me going so far! Post operative care included 6 weeks cardiac rehab courtesy of NSW Health. The physios there were wonderful. At that stage my now replaced knees […]
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PRPR…….pivotal recovery point reached!
Today I went for my second unescorted road trip. The weather has suddenly become more than Autumn-ly chilly but the sun is beautiful and warm making a car trip seem like snuggling into a doona! I love to drive. Sleep has been one of my biggest challenges post operation – lack of same! I was […]
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At the going down of the sun
Anzac Day seems to bring me a cloak of melancholy that wraps itself around me, quite comfortably and sets my mind a wandering through cloudy patches for the entire day. The Last Post has always brought me undone. The loneliness of the open notes played on the bugle, produced in a way that might be […]
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Ready to head South
The little home is quite. Triple L and I are in the ” guest wing” – him under the covers, me on top of the covers in the usual sleep position, uncomfortable though it be having just taken a pain killer – “warning, this medication may interfere with mental health and co- ordination” a reminder […]
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Travelling North!
Mission accomplished! We arrived in Port Macquarie! I had not seen Trish and her family since January. I missed her and her brood! It’s only a bit over two hours nowadays, and having been a regular driver from Newcastle to Melbourne, sometimes doing that trip in one stretch, it’s a bit of a pushover. The […]
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Bloody witching hour’s got me again!
Post physio again and I am battling the tops of my legs both of which are hell bent on reminding me of their presence with funny ( perculiar not funny ha ha!) little grabs on the inside of my upper thigh! It could of course be my mighty gluteus max reminding me that it s […]
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Post flu shot!
Had a first today…….my first ever flu injection! My lovely doctor apologised for the sting of the injection! WHAT? Come and try my knees on for a bit. Although I have to say that I was taken back in time to my polio vaccinations in primary school courtesy of the district nurse! Just as I […]