Reasons to be cheerful

1) I have had an outing to the shops today with Reni to buy some food.
2) I am wearing a bit of mascara, so I only look a bit awful.
3) I have kept off the oxygen for four whole hours without any problems, well still breathless, but I haven't keeled over.
4) I have finished those mega bomb antibiotics after ten very long days.
and 5) I have not one, but eight Galaxy Ripples in the fridge... Yay!
Also Ruth showed me her computerised diagrams of my lungs over the last ten days with various coloured dots meaning where the crackles and wheezes are. And now my lungs only look a little bit spotty now, where at one point my lungs looked rather similar to Pudsy Bear's bandanna!
Hoorah!
Ok I still have itchy skin, a tongue that feels like I've lost a layer or two of flesh and what I thought was a boil appearing on the top of my leg is actually a horrible rash, but the journey to the shops was lovely. Catkins out in all the hedges, crocuses and snowdrops springing up everywhere and actually Spring is on it's way.
Double hoorah!
I have learnt lots of things through this infection. Mainly that I have wonderful offsprings and the most fantastic and caring friends in the world. Also that resting up means resting. And that salty sputum is an early warning sign and means an infection.
Just have to get my mother's back sorted now and life will be just peachy.

Lots of love Debbie x