Today is a good day

Knock me down with a feather, as I have got through a whole day without a mishap!

I was beginning to think I was rewriting 'The Twelve days of Christmas' only now to be called 'The Twelve months of Sickness' going on the lines of example;
10 doses of Streptoccoccus pneumoniae
9 bouts of Nose lining infections
8 doses of Staphylococcus aureus
7 nights of Haempohilus Influenzae
6 painful ribs from coughing fits
And then I pooed the bed.... etc etc

Can't see it catching on some how!

Today was good though.
Thankfully due to the fact that I had an antiseptic wipe in my hand all day yesterday, plus every room and everything had been scrubbed and washed within an inch of it's life by a very knackered yours truly, my bungalow was shiny and smelt ultra clean ready from my old friend's visit today.
I haven't seen Janet and Roger for what must be over 23 years since they left the village and went back to London to live. We did see each other for a couple of years afterwards, but as I didn't drive and they were living on the outskirts of London, the journey was too arduous to go by train, the tubes and finally buses. So regretfully our lives just moved on separately and our friendship petered out, until one day a couple of years ago, Janet saw Jean and myself when I had won Jean some flowers, on the front page of a local newspaper that had somehow ended up in Enfield and she had seen it. Fate?
After a bit of detective work and a few emails, she got in contact and we started corresponding with each other just over a year ago, but never actually spoke on the phone.

Janet has been very ill too with cancer and has thankfully beaten it, so we both see each other as lucky survivors. We both had a wealth of funny stories to tell each other, as well as knowing exactly how each other felt through the bad and the good days.
It was really liberating being able to talk about the feelings of guilt, the anger and the fears to name but a few and have someone say that they had felt just like that at that time or at that person.
Also our families had followed similar patterns and although it had been over 20 years, it was if it was only yesterday that we had met up.
Roger cut the hedges for me as we talked another hour away about yet another topic, but he was rewarded with extra fruit jelly and ice cream while we sat out in the sunshine the whole day.

So off to bed now and I feel quite content for the first time in a while. My life, as I have already said, will never be boring and although 'challenged' at times, chatting today about my friends and family to Janet and Roger, confirmed to me again just how lucky I am to be me whatever happens in the future.

Lots of love Debbie x