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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!

Thursday, 27 October 2011

One in one out

I played hooky for the first time tonight from my course on the 'Boadicea Uprising'. I have been enjoying it honestly, but tonight I was just too tired to concentrate and the speaker does have heavy pregnant pauses which could end up being one pause too many.
I think the week's course of events has finally caught up with me and my brilliant idea of having a hot bath to both warm me up and wake me up, back fired and made me even more sleepier. In fact I fell asleep in the bath and then again on the sofa for a good hour after my evening meal and I'm still yawning.

I had to be under house arrest all day, as I had to wait for the guy to service my oxygen concentrator, then the gent to collect my car and then have a damn good pummelling from my physio Hannah.
It wasn't a bad thing staying in today, as I actually got quite a few tasks done around the house and a lot of my recorded TV watched, including the 'Time Team Special' on their version on the Boadicea uprising...bonza! Hopefully I won't feel a div next week.
Plus I feel as if I've got my plate spinning act nearly under control now, which is a jolly good feeling and means that I can relax a bit now.
The oxygen concentrator is running well now and he removed my old tubing which was getting very grubby and tangled and replaced it with another 15' to fall over. I seem to be more klutzy than usual, probably because I'm so tired at the moment and I have been getting really annoyed again with all the tubing. I don't think you ever get used to having that trailing around behind you all the time.
My poor car went off safely to the garage to return soon I hope. But being the innocent party in an accident is a costly business paying the excess for this and excess for that. I'm jolly glad that I have a little back up money, as if it was just down to my pension, I would be scuppered.
I did go out in the hearse again after all my callers had gone to get my mother's magazines. I'm thinking little journeys to get used to the beast, but if I ever get the hang of this button for a handbrake business, it will be a miracle. I sat outside the Coop for ages trying to get the damn thing off to drive home again. By the time I get used to it, it will be time to give it back!
I haven't plucked up courage yet to tackle the roundabout yet, after all that's where I got hit in the first case and that was when I was confident in my own car.

I watched 'Big Brother' tonight while I've been awake at least and not for the first time I have been shouting at the TV. At least it woke me up a bit. I thought I was a diva, but blimey o'reilly, those two sisters are a non stop royal pain in the bum. How does that Aaron keep getting the blame for their hot and cold moods? I know he's a bit weird, OCD and totally like an old woman, but the two sisters are really mind warping. I'd hate to be in their house for Sunday lunch!
Still it makes good watching and it makes me feel that I'm a really easy going compared to them.
Actually, I think I'm quite nice!

Lots of love Debbie x

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