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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!

Sunday, 30 October 2011

The chill out zone

Welcome to the chilling zone.
Day two of totally chilling out and only doing what is absolutely necessary, as I am determined to shift this cold before it evolves into something more sinister.
And I'm pleased to report, that this chilling lark seems to be working. Headaches are subsiding, my nose is less troublesome, I'm not coughing as much and although I'm still breathless, I'm feeling a little bit more easier about being this cautious rather than throwing caution to the wind and just getting on with things and then suffering.
I'd hate to start off being on the active list with a chest infection.

So today, I had a lie in...again. If I was still working, then this would have been my favourite day of the year...the day the clocks went back so I would get an extra hour in bed...I used to love it!
Next on my chilling agenda was to have a bath and wash my hair, as I looked like one of the extras at 'the Cursed' the other night. Reni popped over and cut it nice and short again for me too, so an extra bonus to feeling human again.
Later, I did wander over to my mother's bungalow to get a bit of fresh air inside me and to challenge her to our daily game of scrabble. I think playing that helps her memory and it helps breaks her day up too, after all the poor old girl never got to Maldon today for our weekly constitutional by the water.
Alas I am brandishing a sore index finger from writing out postcards for my competition entries, all sixty of them...gosh I better win something don't you think!?
It has been ages since I've won anything, but I have won some really nice prizes in the past and I know it sounds corny, but if I get this transplant, well that will be the best prize ever.
This afternoon I sat and watched a lot of the TV programmes that I had recorded over the last week and one of them was Joanna Lumley's tour of Greece.
It was lovely looking at all the beautiful scenery, but to be honest I was looking more at her dress sense, as if I am to have the transplant then I'm not allowed to sunbathe afterwards, as one of the drugs can accelerate skin cancer. So factor 60 the whole way is for me the future and she always looks stunning in her floaty clothes ad I've always rather admired her look.
Perhaps I should wander around calling everyone darling and flirting outrageously...Ooo I do that already!

So all in all, a good day. Tomorrow I can be released out into the wild again.

Lots of love Debbie x

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