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A Couple of Broken Ribs

05/06/09 01:47:45 | 31 Comments

I am typing this on wordpad at approximately 6.30pm Tuesday evening. As I type this I have no idea when I will be able to post it as I am sitting in my Daughters new house where her web access has not been connected yet and wont be until Thursday.

The reason I am sitting here at Sarah's and not in my own home as I was up until 9pm last night, is because from 9pm until midnight last night I was up at the Accident and Emergency department of our local hospital. I left there doped up...

Sorry to be Missing

01/11/09 04:02:18 | 16 Comments

This is for all those that care about me and have been wondering where the heck I am and how I am.

Most of you already know that I haven't been well for quite a few days having not only been struck down with a really bad virus but that I have been also been suffering with a really bad hip and once again had to get me sodding walking stick out.

This last few days I have just felt too queer (do Americans use that word in this context?) to even sit up even for a few mins on...

New Year Resolutions.

12/29/08 07:17:48 | 10 Comments

For what it's worth here are my New Year Resolutions for 2009. I wonder just how many I will stick to.

1) Instead of getting straight out of bed and on to the computer to have my first cup of tea in the mornings I am going to turn the news on the TV and sit in front of that instead. That way I will actually get up and do something as soon as I have had my tea instead of ending up for a couple of hours still playing on the web. I will then not get on the comp until I have at least...

Screening Tests

11/14/08 11:18:17 | 2 Comments

One certainly can't fault our Health Service for keeping up to date with screening tests.

The moment I reached 50, or in my case it was just before my 50th birthday I received my first invitation for a mammogram which I now have every 3 years. Now that I am 60 I received a letter a couple of days ago inviting me to take part in the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. I honestly didn't know this screening had started.

My first thought was "Oh bugger, not yet...

This Will Teach Me to be Greedy

10/28/08 07:54:42 | 0 Comments

It proves one is getting old when one can't eat the things we used to without suffering badly.

A couple of years ago I had a problem with my oesophagus. It seems that the flap that stops the acid clawing it's way back up from ones stomach stayed open for me. This caused my oesophagus to get badly burned.

It took many weeks to clear up and during that time...

Sorting Myself Out

10/28/08 07:48:14 | 0 Comments

I am gradually sorting myself out.

I am now being far more aware of what I am eating. I have twigged on that actally when I am at home I do eat properly albeit very small portions. I have plenty of fruit and salad. No veg as I just don't cook but the fruit and salad I eat more than makes up for any lack of veggies and I do eat plenty of protein in the way, mostly of dairy produce and fish.

It's when I am staying with my Daughter that I just don't eat correctly....

I Stink

10/28/08 06:46:15 | 0 Comments

Well, it's true. I do stink. I stink simply because I smoke. I not only stink, I am anti-social, and I am slowly killing myself.

I went through the agony of quitting many years ago and managed to stay quit for 8 years. Then 15 years ago I lit up one cigarette and low and behold within a fortnight I was back on 20 a day.

am not proud of that, in fact I could...

Dinner for One

10/28/08 03:54:49 | 0 Comments

I think the hardest thing to do for someone of any age is to eat properly when living on ones own. I do think it's harder though when one is older, for the simple reason that one loses ones appetite anyway.

Shopping and cooking for one is a chore and so it's usually, for the single person, either takeaways or sandwiches. Unless of course one is one of these strangest...

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