Some where, round about

Posts

Chilling with the currant blanket!

- October 04, 2022

Last week I got the news that an operation is called for and sooner rather than later as well. So New pjs nd a new dressing gown were required, I m about to book a hair apt for a fringe to be cut in, today we bought co op orange label flowers and from tomorrow I shall identify Something aa a treat - every single day until the op! I prefer the term "skull based surgery". But when attempting to obtain a chair to suddenly sit on in a shop ....I just say 'brain surgery', as a short cut! It really isn't though, it is surgery between the skull and my brain. There is a pre op apt at the end of this week, as apparently the little unwelcome lodger is behaving very badly indeed and must come out. Well, 95% of it will, the remaining bit Might stop one sided facial paralysis- a Good idea I think. I might not be posting for a bit. Certainly two or three months, unless the neuro surgeon is a Genius! I mean he is Very good....but I am being realistic here. There are sim

Autumn has galloped in!

- September 18, 2022

Don't really know where summer went this year! I might have been asleep, that is a distinct possibility, N E Scotland might have just blown the warmth down further south, or maybe it is just one of those subjective things. Now I come to think of it, the guys who were putting a proper roof on the studio , one was in a t shirt and the other in shorts. And they are still surfing off fraserburgh beach! Hardy souls. Family and friends visited, we were fairly home-based while I now rattle like a regular 1960s tin medicine cabinet. N e v e r in my life have I e v e r taken this much medication. It is quite foul but the two I am most grateful are , do stop the deep desire to pull the whole of my face clean off and can stop one throwing up in a nano second. So, there's that to be thankful for. Last year the garden took a back step, so to find myself in similar territory this year.....was a shock. Decided to do What I could, When I could and sack the consequences. Today we've p

August, hopefully,

- August 14, 2022

If (and I do) have to spend some time curled up on the settee....then new cushion covers were called for! We have fabulous charity shops round abouts, so it didn't break the bank and they make me smile every day! One day I might learn how to take a photo with a tablet..........,! Until then, At Last there might be an explanation for ten years of shocking balance. But by heck the last few months have been grueling: " benign does not mean fine" Indeed so! There is a limited amount of space inside my skull! So...... it is a non cancerous growth .....on my vestibular nerve. However, having had one scan , there has to be a roughly six month wait for a second scan, before we all sit down and decide Next Steps. I had rather been hoping for a zappy radiosurgery type treatment, only it seems this flipping intruder is Already a bit too big. Size is not all tho' and if symptoms can be brought under control I would take a WatchAndWaitnObserve suggestion. Alas symptoms are

Missed a month there,

- July 02, 2022

Tarrah! May I present a jumble of rain splattered herbs? Cornflower, thyme and chives to be precise. Not exactly what I expected the veg and herb garden outside our kitchen to be looking like in the first week of July! But life happened. In short, a benign growth on my vestibular nerve started to make itself known. Hello vestibular schwannoma! You are not exactly welcome here but at least you are benign and at least you explain why my head felt Kinda Crowded of late! Lessons learned since February. Loosing hearing in one ear is a medical emergency, Seriously. Rare conditions do not equal "so you haven't got it". Push a few doors open? Try " be ruthlessly persistent" Gp's seriously are not trained to diagnose rare conditions, so cut them some slack But insist on swift and acurate referrals. Use a search engine of choice if our medical symptoms don't stack up with first possible diagnosis. In other news The tadpoles grew into frogs! The garden is not a c

Celebrating duvet covers!

- May 15, 2022

In the midst of very vexing medical nonsense am seriously grateful to Tesco for selling these stunning duvet sets, they make me smile on a regular basis. Emerging from last year's mayhem, I had high hopes for the garden only .., well health matters have taken up Feb- the present time. And look like intruding into summer as well. I am not at all impressed. However I am very impressed by the ability of all manner of stuff to flourish if it is JustDumped in the garden soil! And flower seeds too! Goodness knows what the garden will look like this year, but there is something of the whimsical-fairy-look about it already. Some may mutter darkly of Overgrown and such like, but there is rhubarb chard tucked in with celendines and marigolds and fordhook giant chard taking it's chances with the lunaria. It's lovely! Frogs are about the place, something keeps flying into the glass of our bedroom window at night and six sheep have taken up residence in the field behind us. The birds

Back in the snug,

- April 22, 2022

So far.... so much the same? Well yes. Except now I have a pacemaker! Upon investigating the hearing loss in one ear, a low heart rate was discovered. My further request for an ECG was met and mercifully an overnight bag Had been brought with us! "Hello hospital ward" and there started a wait for vacancy to place the pacemaker. I was out again six days after going in. The initial two weeks are up, dressing off, I can do a Bit more and life should be improving in leaps and bounds. Only something else utterly unrelated has reared it's ugly head and i'm back to the docs Again! So no, no photos of our lovely garden as the last time out there, I ended up in the daffodils....... In other news Family have been great. Local one pitched up to help prepare for visiting ones. And they combined helping with holiday and left us Much Sorted Out! I ve completed Some seed germination, but decided to throw caution to the wind and Buy In (!) some flower seeds t

Search This Blog