Tag: hospital

I had a much better night on Tuesday. The puppy let me sleep until 5am! Yay! When I got up a bit later and opened the living room curtains, the…

Grab yourself a cuppa and pull up a chair… Friday Because my appointments at the hospital had been messed up, Friday’s appointment was quite early in the morning. The poet…

I had a lot of work planned for yesterday. I had a short story to outline. I had a workshop to revise. I had a book to edit. And I…

So yesterday I was bragging a bit about neither of us feeling particular blue because our respective football (soccer) teams both won in the FA Cup round at the weekend….

Friday morning meant another trip to Rotherham for another light therapy session. Because it seems to be working, I wanted to find out what would happen if we stopped at…

Although, technically, I had 3 weeks off over Christmas, for the first week I worked, as previously mentioned. That gave us 2 weeks for the actual holiday. However, we didn’t…

This post also appears on Patreon. Ah, Wednesday… Well, Wednesday was a very long time ago, or so it seems. We also had errands to run, on top of dermatology…

This post also appears on Patreon. So it’s Monday again already and, in this household at least, we start our march towards the big day. Friday seems such a long…

This post also appears on Patreon. Wednesday morning is one of my 3 weekly light therapy sessions at the hospital. It takes up the best part of the entire morning…

This post also appears on Patreon. Right after posting yesterday’s blog post on here and on Patreon, I started today’s. I had a bit of work to catch up on…

This post also appears on Patreon. Friday was a busy day. The morning was taken up with my 3rd dermatology appointment (3 down, 21 to go). This appointment really does…

Storm Claudia arrived on Friday in the relatively early hours. I knew there was a storm brewing out at sea, but I didn’t know it was expected to make landfall….

March was always going to be a big month, even with a hospital visit and a 2-week convalescence. Then I lost 2 whole days to the tax/NI fiasco as well….

Monday was publication day for Ash Wednesday, Flash Fiction #13. The plan was to plug it yesterday, as Monday’s post was the month ahead. But I missed yesterday too, so…

I managed to get up before the alarm on Tuesday, which was a great start. But I wanted to finish reading a book for review. It’s a re-read because the…

And there we have it. The first full week of 2025 is done. It’s frightening, but a reminder that time waits for no man, so it certainly won’t wait for…

Yesterday started well. We were both up in good time, we had breakfast before work started, and we were both pretty much at our desks in good time.  The first…

We were up fairly early yesterday due to a dermatology appointment for me at the hospital – the first of 3 this week. But I didn’t have time to get…

We were up very early on Friday because I had a very early (to us!) review appointment at the hospital. We got there on time and by the time the…

We were up with the lark, or our lark at least, and off to the garage with the poet’s car. It was going in for its first MOT, a health…

Here’s how the rest of yesterday panned out. I put on my big girl pants, got in my own darned car, drove to a real, bricks-and-mortar bank, and paid in…

I left everyone dangling on Monday. Here’s how that day went. Monday Monday started with me waking up feeling rough as $h!t. (Excuse my language.) I’d spent most of the…

Chapter 22: Week commencing Wednesday 1 June Last week’s diary should have finished on Wednesday, but I was so busy I didn’t have time to go into detail. I’ll do…

We thought it was trapped wind, but as the pain got steadily worse I realised I needed to go to hospital. When I got there, they diagnosed pancreatitis, and they…