I realised today just how ineffective my medicine box is. Well actually I couldn't even find it as I believe it is under my wheelchair in the boot of my car and I couldn't lift the damn thing to look underneath. So I just panicked and drove down to the chemist and brought every sort of bandage that I could find in there!
My disaster today?
Reni slicing her thumb open on my food processor blade when washing it up.
Luckily it wasn't as bad as we first thought and thanks to cold water, a pantie liner and a lot of pressure, we stemmed the bleeding until I was able to do a more professional job with one of my newly brought bandages.
Still I think I deserved a 'Girl Guides' badge for my initiative with the pantie liner!
I couldn't stop her jumping around to let me put a makeshift butterfly stitch on her thumb though and had to nearly sit on her to spray her thumb with the chemist's spray to stem the bleeding! But after I told her the truth that it would actually hurt, she let me do it and it worked a treat so I could then dress it.
The irony of the whole thing was that the food processor had refused to work anyway and I had to make the basil dressing by hand with a small knife, so we were washing it up for nothing really.
We did have another really pleasant day before that point.
Reni came with me to get my monthly drugs from the hospital, of which I only have twelve and a half days worth, so I'm hoping this is a good omen for Papworth and not that the Pharmacist couldn't count.
God I'm obsessed with a place I've never seen.
We then did a bit of food shopping on the way back home and got some good ingredients for the next couple of nights worth of meals.
We both like eating well and cooking from scratch. I like to think that all of us are good cooks, my ex definitely made sure that our sons were and Reni cooks gorgeous Hungarian food, her mum should be very proud of her.
And then it was time to sunbathe in my back garden, reading our books and chatting before Reni sliced open her thumb and we went into flashing blue light mode!
Thankfully Reni is fine and had a ice cream for being a brave soldier.
Tonight I went to the cinema to see the new X-men movie which was very good, but very long. I knew it was long film, because my oxygen ran out as I was walking back to the car.
Thank goodness Ann had parked nearby, as that turned a bit scary too and was nearly flashing lights times two!
I had double vision and talking a load of gobbledygook!
I filled the oxygen unit up this morning and maybe I should have put some more in before going out tonight, but I should have had enough in there for the amount of time I had it on.
I hate being so reliant on these damn oxygen units. My days of being spontaneous have long gone.
So there you have it, another eventful day in my life... never a dull moment, not even in just doing the most normal of daily events.
Lots of love Debbie x
About Me
- Me...Debbie Burden... or known as Burders
- 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!
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