I’ve had quite a boring and dull week this week, although it definitely improved as it wore on. It started badly with me experiencing a temperature spike and being taken into hospital. They found nothing too alarming, which was ecouraging, so they sent me home again with instructions to Gillian to keep a sharp eye on me. But I still felt pretty bad for another couple of days, which limited what I felt able to do. With back pain added to general unwellness, I was not at all happy at the beginning of the week.
The interest level took a turn for the better when I had an MRI scan in the middle of the week, and finally fed up with feeling grotty, gave myself a talking to about my attitude. That was the turning point in the week for me.
Towards the end of this week we’ve been on a couple of small local excursions. In one, we went to see a local sight, a bee shelter that we pass every time we go to Cheltenham and have been determined to see for about two months now. Having finally seen it, however, we were surprised at quite how small and insignificant it was. The second excursion was for a short local walk, or rather about one tenth of it. It seems to me that it was the first exercise I have taken for an awfully long time, and although it left me tired, it also exhilarated me, and I’m determined to try to do more walking over the coming months.
My back remains painful, but well controlled by the pain killers. I think that the underlying condition is slowly improving, so I hope soon to be able to cut down on the pain killers. We’ll see what the results of the bone scan are on Wednesday this coming week, which will probably have a bearing on the situation.
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Someone on the telly today described the noise of the MRI scan machine as being like the music at a techno gig. Reminded me of your more sophisticated description! Hope it gives you some interesting results.
Carol, it may be more like a techno gig, but I’ve never been to one of those, so I couldn’t tell. I’m certainly looking forward to the results.
A rash assumption that I’m thinking of the same bee shelter(?) – I’d call it on the way to Gloucester. Did you see the tithe barn – it amused me that there is a Welsh dragon facing England and an English lion looking at Wales on the top of the roof. Info at
http://www.ukattraction.com/heart-of-england/tithe-barn.htm
and photo at
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/9770
I’m sure the MRI scan will find a brain – as I tell J men have larger brains than women – all she can say is “But we know how to use them”.
C, It may have been rash, but you were perfectly correct in your assumption.
And yes, we did note the irony of the Welsh Dragon and the English Lion each keeping a wary eye on the other’s country.
I wonder what J’s evidence is for that controversial remark…
Have you got any of that Tempur stuff to lie on? (Not tempura: that would be messy!). We got a 3 cm mattress topper a while ago and it has made a huge difference to sleeping comfort. I’m told that a whole mattress of tempur takes some getting used to, but the topper is brilliant. Speaking as someone regularly sleep-deprived by an insomniac (but beautiful) cat and a snoring (but truly marvellous) partner, I can recommend anything that improves sleeping.
Yes, we do have a tempur mattress topper. I think ours is three inches thick too. I know what you mean about getting used to it, though. It was strange to start with, but I wouldn’t be without it now.
Evidence – I can only suggest you ask her when you see her next! (Controversial? She would probably call it “Factual”)