Monday, November 22, 2004
Happy Monday!!! The snow has all gone L and now it is raining so it is all very miserable out there - the weekend was ok - cold - and I don’t think I left the house much - on Saturday, the snow was still around and so it was very cold - Nana rang to thank me for Grumfy’s birthday present and so I had a bit of a chat with them - mostly about Alex - my cousin - who got married!!! My little baby cousin I used to babysit for when I was hardly more than a baby myself! We saw him when we went to visit Nana and he was with a girlfriend then who I think was living with him and had been for a while but they recently broke up and he met someone else and they got married!! How lovely! They got married in Bradford, which is a long way for Nana and Grumfy to travel but they made it and it sounds as if they had a lovely time - I should get a card for them - they are in the Maldives at the moment on honeymoon, bless.
Sunday was good - Dagan and Angela came over with Rolo for lunch so I cooked a roast dinner - though neither of them eat vegetables…. They will eat sweetcorn so they had a bit of that with the chicken and roast potatoes. Rolo is still gorgeous - she is growing really fast and this week she lost her front teeth - so now she is biting even more. She has learnt to listen to Ash - and now when he shouts at her she lies on the floor all submissive - she just wants to play all the time and he is such a miserable old man - she’s so funny because she gets right down on her belly and commando crawls as close to Ash as she can and tries to sniff him and he just growls at her - then she can’t resist it any longer and leaps up to lick his face and that is usually when he barks and runs away to hide from her. Poor Rolo - no one would play with her - she tried to get Piper to play as well but he just hisses at her.
We almost have another member of the family - I think mum is weakening - it’s the little cat that attacked me the other day - mum has seen it out there a couple of times and on Saturday it was sitting by the bins eating potato peelings - poor baby - it was so cold and he is so skinny - mum took some crunchies out for him and tried to get him to come inside but Clooney saw him off - he dived on the food like an animal possessed and so we don’t think he has a home - even Piper wouldn’t have dived on the food like that and he is hungry all the time. I am going to go out and see if I can find him later and try and entice him back to the house - poor Clooney - she keeps letting these men into her life and all they do is eat all her food and steal her favourite sleeping places. He’s such a friendly little thing - of course once we start feeding him he’ll probably turn into a huge obese puddy cat like Piper did.
We watched the latest Harry Potter DVD last night - Dagan and Angela brought it over and it was very good - better than the first two although I felt like they had missed a lot out of the book - Sirius Black wasn’t in it much but I suppose he makes more of an appearance in the next one. It did make me want to read them all again! And I can’t wait for the next book - surely we are due another installment soon? Dagan usually gets if for my birthday.
I’ve had a couple of bad hypos the last couple of days - my fault - I haven’t been testing very often and so I have been overdoing the insulin. Last night I was eating chocolates so I thought I needed quite a bit of extra insulin - but then I had a hypo and so I got some lucozade - which didn’t work so I ate more chocolate and I must have gone quite low as I was sweating and shaking and feeling dreadful - mum made me some sweet tea and eventually it worked - and my sugar only went up to 11 after that so I really did overdo the insulin - I felt ill that evening - the lucozade just made me feel sick and bloated and so I went to bed and started my dialysis early - which is fine as long as I remember that I will run out of dialysis fluid early and have too much insulin in the morning - which I didn’t account for, so at 6am I was 2.1 and no lucozade in my room - I came downstairs (taking my life in my hands on the stairs while hypo!!) and finished off the lucozade and mum made me more sweet tea - not the best way to start a Monday morning.
Thursday this week is my big day - I am hoping to get my new shoes in the foot clinic which will also be the last time I see Dr Dinneen - I wanted to discuss the pancreas transplant with him but he might not have time - I need to find out who will be looking after my diabetes from now on too -and I hope I see Jane as I haven’t seen her for ages.
Ash keeps sticking his head around my lap top - I think he wants a cuddle he keeps looking at me and headbutting me - I don’t think he likes me paying sop much attention to my laptop - he’s attacking his teddy bear now which usually means he’s frustrated so I think I will stop and have a play with him - oh my life is so hard - do I play on my computer? Watch TV or play with my dog? Decisions decisions….
12:40
Well, Ash buggered off back to bed before I could play with him. I tried to load up my blog but blogger.com wouldn’t let me. So I gave up with that and tried watching TV - for some reason I am very emotional today - I watched Buffy first and it was the one where Willow goes bad and tried to destroy the world and Xander saves her by telling her he loves her over and over while she tries to kill him, so that made me cry - then I watched ER and some kid who was in a car crash and got third degree burns all over his body and was just waiting to die - well that started me off again and then at least three other things on the tv made me cry in between. What a mess! Everything seems to make me cry at the moment - not badly - I mean I am not blubbing and sad all the time, I am just emotional. I’m sure there are lots of reasons including Dr Dinneen leaving and also I haven’t been in hospital for ages and even though that is a good thing it makes me feel a bit isolated which is crazy - I mean who in their right mind, misses being in hospital? Is it possible to have that Munchausen’s Syndrome without realising it? Perhaps I am really just a crazy-attention -seeking-maniac, that would make sense.
My big toe is still killing me - I am now starting to wonder what pseudo-gout in your toe looks like - my knee is all puffy and swollen but my toe isn’t although the toe is very much smaller than the knee so maybe you don’t notice swelling on a toe so much. It’s not even like I could compare it to my other big toe as my feet are not normal by any stretch of the imagination and so if they look odd - that is completely normal - for me. I feel sorry for the poor student who gets me in his final exams in December. I hope my knee is still swollen then, I’d like to see how many students can spot Pseudo-gout without any blood tests…. I have to take my own pyjamas and reading material (to get me through the boring waiting times) which just means even more stress over what I am going to wear - luckily my entire wardrobe consists of night shirts and pyjamas so I should have something to choose.
Wednesday is the deadline for applying for the ward clerk job in F6 - which I applied for last week. I hope I at least get an interview - and things are looking good for me to still be out of hospital - the ondansetron seems to be working really well. I don’t even know what specialist F6 is - I am sure it is just a general medical ward - not that I will have much to do with the patients. I daresay I will mostly be filing and answering the phone. At least I will be able to get to the interview in a matching pair of shoes - that will be a first!
According to Blockbuster the next three DVDs on their way are Underground, Troy and something else I forgot already oh - Paycheck. Hang on, Ash needs to pee.
5pm
Well since I last wrote in here this morning I have been sick and slept the afternoon away - but now, my stomach has settled and I have even cooked dinner (well I opened a tin and mashed some potatoes.) I am not sure why I was sick - it just came over me when mum was here for lunch - I think I ate too much chicken soup and I have had a dodgy tum since yesterday, Either that or it is all the lucozade I’ve drunk recently. Anyway I think it’s gone and I am able to take my tablets so no need for the suppositories yet!! I am determined not to go back in to hospital.
Sunday was good - Dagan and Angela came over with Rolo for lunch so I cooked a roast dinner - though neither of them eat vegetables…. They will eat sweetcorn so they had a bit of that with the chicken and roast potatoes. Rolo is still gorgeous - she is growing really fast and this week she lost her front teeth - so now she is biting even more. She has learnt to listen to Ash - and now when he shouts at her she lies on the floor all submissive - she just wants to play all the time and he is such a miserable old man - she’s so funny because she gets right down on her belly and commando crawls as close to Ash as she can and tries to sniff him and he just growls at her - then she can’t resist it any longer and leaps up to lick his face and that is usually when he barks and runs away to hide from her. Poor Rolo - no one would play with her - she tried to get Piper to play as well but he just hisses at her.
We almost have another member of the family - I think mum is weakening - it’s the little cat that attacked me the other day - mum has seen it out there a couple of times and on Saturday it was sitting by the bins eating potato peelings - poor baby - it was so cold and he is so skinny - mum took some crunchies out for him and tried to get him to come inside but Clooney saw him off - he dived on the food like an animal possessed and so we don’t think he has a home - even Piper wouldn’t have dived on the food like that and he is hungry all the time. I am going to go out and see if I can find him later and try and entice him back to the house - poor Clooney - she keeps letting these men into her life and all they do is eat all her food and steal her favourite sleeping places. He’s such a friendly little thing - of course once we start feeding him he’ll probably turn into a huge obese puddy cat like Piper did.
We watched the latest Harry Potter DVD last night - Dagan and Angela brought it over and it was very good - better than the first two although I felt like they had missed a lot out of the book - Sirius Black wasn’t in it much but I suppose he makes more of an appearance in the next one. It did make me want to read them all again! And I can’t wait for the next book - surely we are due another installment soon? Dagan usually gets if for my birthday.
I’ve had a couple of bad hypos the last couple of days - my fault - I haven’t been testing very often and so I have been overdoing the insulin. Last night I was eating chocolates so I thought I needed quite a bit of extra insulin - but then I had a hypo and so I got some lucozade - which didn’t work so I ate more chocolate and I must have gone quite low as I was sweating and shaking and feeling dreadful - mum made me some sweet tea and eventually it worked - and my sugar only went up to 11 after that so I really did overdo the insulin - I felt ill that evening - the lucozade just made me feel sick and bloated and so I went to bed and started my dialysis early - which is fine as long as I remember that I will run out of dialysis fluid early and have too much insulin in the morning - which I didn’t account for, so at 6am I was 2.1 and no lucozade in my room - I came downstairs (taking my life in my hands on the stairs while hypo!!) and finished off the lucozade and mum made me more sweet tea - not the best way to start a Monday morning.
Thursday this week is my big day - I am hoping to get my new shoes in the foot clinic which will also be the last time I see Dr Dinneen - I wanted to discuss the pancreas transplant with him but he might not have time - I need to find out who will be looking after my diabetes from now on too -and I hope I see Jane as I haven’t seen her for ages.
Ash keeps sticking his head around my lap top - I think he wants a cuddle he keeps looking at me and headbutting me - I don’t think he likes me paying sop much attention to my laptop - he’s attacking his teddy bear now which usually means he’s frustrated so I think I will stop and have a play with him - oh my life is so hard - do I play on my computer? Watch TV or play with my dog? Decisions decisions….
12:40
Well, Ash buggered off back to bed before I could play with him. I tried to load up my blog but blogger.com wouldn’t let me. So I gave up with that and tried watching TV - for some reason I am very emotional today - I watched Buffy first and it was the one where Willow goes bad and tried to destroy the world and Xander saves her by telling her he loves her over and over while she tries to kill him, so that made me cry - then I watched ER and some kid who was in a car crash and got third degree burns all over his body and was just waiting to die - well that started me off again and then at least three other things on the tv made me cry in between. What a mess! Everything seems to make me cry at the moment - not badly - I mean I am not blubbing and sad all the time, I am just emotional. I’m sure there are lots of reasons including Dr Dinneen leaving and also I haven’t been in hospital for ages and even though that is a good thing it makes me feel a bit isolated which is crazy - I mean who in their right mind, misses being in hospital? Is it possible to have that Munchausen’s Syndrome without realising it? Perhaps I am really just a crazy-attention -seeking-maniac, that would make sense.
My big toe is still killing me - I am now starting to wonder what pseudo-gout in your toe looks like - my knee is all puffy and swollen but my toe isn’t although the toe is very much smaller than the knee so maybe you don’t notice swelling on a toe so much. It’s not even like I could compare it to my other big toe as my feet are not normal by any stretch of the imagination and so if they look odd - that is completely normal - for me. I feel sorry for the poor student who gets me in his final exams in December. I hope my knee is still swollen then, I’d like to see how many students can spot Pseudo-gout without any blood tests…. I have to take my own pyjamas and reading material (to get me through the boring waiting times) which just means even more stress over what I am going to wear - luckily my entire wardrobe consists of night shirts and pyjamas so I should have something to choose.
Wednesday is the deadline for applying for the ward clerk job in F6 - which I applied for last week. I hope I at least get an interview - and things are looking good for me to still be out of hospital - the ondansetron seems to be working really well. I don’t even know what specialist F6 is - I am sure it is just a general medical ward - not that I will have much to do with the patients. I daresay I will mostly be filing and answering the phone. At least I will be able to get to the interview in a matching pair of shoes - that will be a first!
According to Blockbuster the next three DVDs on their way are Underground, Troy and something else I forgot already oh - Paycheck. Hang on, Ash needs to pee.
5pm
Well since I last wrote in here this morning I have been sick and slept the afternoon away - but now, my stomach has settled and I have even cooked dinner (well I opened a tin and mashed some potatoes.) I am not sure why I was sick - it just came over me when mum was here for lunch - I think I ate too much chicken soup and I have had a dodgy tum since yesterday, Either that or it is all the lucozade I’ve drunk recently. Anyway I think it’s gone and I am able to take my tablets so no need for the suppositories yet!! I am determined not to go back in to hospital.
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