This has been another interesting week in the 'may you live in interesting times' way. I have always thought that phrase was truly ominous.
Monday was way too busy. I cleaned the kitty litter tray (not high on my list of preferred jobs) and vacuumed. Then we went into town to take the smaller portion's clock to the clock doctor. Hooray. To the stoma clinic for next months supplies for himself. Then to pick up bird seed (another 20 kilos), garlic, cinnamon and milk. Home for a cuppa. Then to the post office to send things overseas. A big queue which is unsurprising. I am still unhappy that if you are sending things to the US of A, an additional $9 'security charge' is added to the postage if the article weighs over 500 grams. Which gifts for my nephew, his wife and their children assuredly did.
Then to the doctor because both of us had prescriptions which needed renewing. Here is where it starts to get weird. I have been seeing this doctor for over a decade (and will find another as soon as I can, but that is another story). For the first time ever she expressed sympathy for the way I am feeling. It is true that I was/am feeling crappy, but that is often the case when the weather is all over the place. I went in to get my scripts renewed and she upped the dosage on all of my painkillers without being asked. Then she took my blood pressure and her concern deepened. I usually hover around the 120 over 80 mark. On Monday it was 90 over 80 which goes some way to explain why I have been spinning out a lot. She checked and it isn't an effect of the medication I consume. A mystery. Who knows where it comes from.
She hoped it was temporary. A wish I share. Give us this day our daily whinge.
Monday was way too busy. I cleaned the kitty litter tray (not high on my list of preferred jobs) and vacuumed. Then we went into town to take the smaller portion's clock to the clock doctor. Hooray. To the stoma clinic for next months supplies for himself. Then to pick up bird seed (another 20 kilos), garlic, cinnamon and milk. Home for a cuppa. Then to the post office to send things overseas. A big queue which is unsurprising. I am still unhappy that if you are sending things to the US of A, an additional $9 'security charge' is added to the postage if the article weighs over 500 grams. Which gifts for my nephew, his wife and their children assuredly did.
Then to the doctor because both of us had prescriptions which needed renewing. Here is where it starts to get weird. I have been seeing this doctor for over a decade (and will find another as soon as I can, but that is another story). For the first time ever she expressed sympathy for the way I am feeling. It is true that I was/am feeling crappy, but that is often the case when the weather is all over the place. I went in to get my scripts renewed and she upped the dosage on all of my painkillers without being asked. Then she took my blood pressure and her concern deepened. I usually hover around the 120 over 80 mark. On Monday it was 90 over 80 which goes some way to explain why I have been spinning out a lot. She checked and it isn't an effect of the medication I consume. A mystery. Who knows where it comes from.
She hoped it was temporary. A wish I share. Give us this day our daily whinge.
