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I'll be 55 this August... I've had bronchiectasis for ten years plus this year... End stage lung disease for the past year...been on oxygen for three years... and have I got used to it yet?... nah! I am now waiting for the biggie; a double lung and maybe a heart transplant. I love my life weirdly enough, because I have some wonderful family and friends who are with me every step of the way on my adventures, even though I embarrass them on a daily basis with my unorthodox way of looking at life. Not for the faint hearted!

Friday, 11 June 2010

The bells!

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Thought I had to do something to cheer my mood as had a banging headache all day, probably to do with my mother's telephone dilemma last night and knowing that I have got to face it again when I get home.
Have you ever had walls that rang? Well my poor old mother did last night. Bless BT as they tried to say there wasn't a problem until they asked my to replug the socket back in and they heard the bells ringing nonstop, my mother shouting 'make it stop' and me going 'oh clucking hell' or words to that effect.
So tomorrow they are sending a technician to sort it all out as there is no way I can go on holiday out the country for a week with mother not having a phone or the care alarm working and you need the phone to make the other work. It may cost £100 to put right or it may not, but peace of mind is worth quadruple that price.

I took mother's call care unit home with me in the end last night, as even without electricy flowing through it, it was still bleeping and flashing thanks to the back up battery and her nerves couldn't cope.
3am in the morning neither could mine, as I made my way out to my car in my nightie with the unit wrapped in a bath towel to try to muffle it and locked it in the boot, so I could get some sleep!

Still at least it's taken my mind off the plane trip and the holiday! Someone at work asked what was the worse that could happen and I told them what I have had drummed into me for the last few years. No flying because you could have a stroke, heart attack or your head could blow off it's shoulders and now they are saying trust in that little black box that looks like a gas mask, you'll be fine.
Going on that plane I will feel like a Christian walking into a lion's den... gulp!

Lots of love Debbie x

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