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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!

Saturday, 28 August 2010

Bank Holiday... in the rain

Ok something is wrong here. Have I been asleep longer than I thought or what? I know I am really tired all the time, but did I go to sleep in August and wake up in November, because my nose was ice cold when I woke up his morning. What is going on with the weather for goodness sake... Oo I know, it's the start of the Bank holiday of course!

When I eventually got out of bed I found a cricket stuck in my mozzie net again. Not sure if it's the same one as last time, but if it has a leg missing then yes it is. Long story and I didn't mean it to happen. Went into the kitchen to get a cuppa and there was a dozy wasp laying on the kitchen floor, I guess it was dozy because it was chilly in the kitchen as well as in my bedroom, who knows.
Then back into my bedroom with my morning cuppa only to see one of those really long spindly legged spiders on my pillow, which only confirms that I probably did swallow one the other night in my sleep! God if I wanted to sleep with the critters I would have gone to Colchester zoo to the creepy crawly house, at least it would have been warmer in there.

By the time I had got my act together and set off to get my new glasses sorted, it had warmed up and the sun had come out temporary. Even though the young girl at the opticians must have drawn the short straw to deal with me, she was really pleasant and fiddled about with them, measuring where the lens in the new ones to see where they start varying and in my old ones to see what the difference was. Actually they did seem better with the minor adjustments. It wasn't anywhere near as blurry looking about. She reckoned both pairs were sitting wrong and one pair were sitting quite noticeably one side higher than the other. No doubt my ears are probably not evenly matched. As Ann said everything is going South on me now, so probably one of my ears is following suit! As I didn't bang into any display cabinets or fall over imaginary curves in the floor as I walked about, we agreed that I would give them another trial for another week and see how it goes.

Whether it is the glasses playing tricks or what I don't know, but I'm sitting here watching an old film on tv, Billion Years BC I think. There is a chap in it that looks like one of the BeeGees in a bearskin rug, who in an attempt to walk like a macho cave man is waddling more than swaggering like a telly tubby. Every now and again they fight a super imposed garden animal or domestic pet with pointy sticks, but they are normally pointing their sticks the wrong way. I recognise Rachel Welch as she was extremely fit when this film was shot in her cute rabbit skin bikini and her big back combed hair which has been sprayed within an inch of it's life!

Other than that, day has been fairly straight forward. Fingers turned blue a couple of times, had real trouble breathing and staying awake at one point in the day and felt quite nauseous, so all in all a normal day!

Lots of love Debbie x

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