With yet another change of mind the doctors looking after my Gran now do think she suffered a stroke. In some ways this is good because it means that she is to be transferred to a specialist stroke ward, when a bed becomes available, and will receive proper rehabilitation but obviously she would rather not have had the stroke. She is apparently starting to complain about her predicament which indicates she is starting to feel like her old self. The current estimate is that she will be an inpatient for about six weeks and impatient for about as long.
Yesterday started poorly for Gill who could finally bottle up and ignore her frustrations/despair at my health problems no longer. I had been waiting for this day since last weeks appointment set back so it came as no surprise; I’m just pleased it came. After a bout of tears I informed her that she was taking the day off and I would join her. It turned out to be a good day allowing us both to voice the concerns that had been dogging us recently and, I hope, releasing most of the stress that had been building up over the past few weeks.
The day off also allowed us to tackle the back room again, this time concentrating on the two cupboards that reside in there. The cupboards mainly contained hundreds of books that I have picked up over the years and I was determined to get rid of as many as I could. Well, when I say 'determined to get rid of', what I mean is 'resigned myself to losing'. In the end I found it easier to part with them than I had thought, the main victims being large parts of my science fiction/fantasy and horror collections, mostly American import stuff I had picked up in Timeslip/Forbidden Planet. I’ll try and flog these to Keel Row books in North Shields but don’t hold out much hope so if anyone out there...
As for World of Warcraft, I am now a proud citizen of the Azjol Nerub server and as such will now be able to interact with all the other sad geeks who I know play. Of course I will only be able to interact with said geeks by using their gear at the moment, hmm...any offers?
Yesterday started poorly for Gill who could finally bottle up and ignore her frustrations/despair at my health problems no longer. I had been waiting for this day since last weeks appointment set back so it came as no surprise; I’m just pleased it came. After a bout of tears I informed her that she was taking the day off and I would join her. It turned out to be a good day allowing us both to voice the concerns that had been dogging us recently and, I hope, releasing most of the stress that had been building up over the past few weeks.
The day off also allowed us to tackle the back room again, this time concentrating on the two cupboards that reside in there. The cupboards mainly contained hundreds of books that I have picked up over the years and I was determined to get rid of as many as I could. Well, when I say 'determined to get rid of', what I mean is 'resigned myself to losing'. In the end I found it easier to part with them than I had thought, the main victims being large parts of my science fiction/fantasy and horror collections, mostly American import stuff I had picked up in Timeslip/Forbidden Planet. I’ll try and flog these to Keel Row books in North Shields but don’t hold out much hope so if anyone out there...
As for World of Warcraft, I am now a proud citizen of the Azjol Nerub server and as such will now be able to interact with all the other sad geeks who I know play. Of course I will only be able to interact with said geeks by using their gear at the moment, hmm...any offers?
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