Yes me. I'm sick and feeling very sorry for myself. It is Monday morning, first day of school holidays and I have taken the day off. I started feeling off on Friday, spent Saturday telling myself it was just a cold and I'd stop being a wos. Felt better by late afternoon and in the evening we went to Helen and Phil for supper as arranged. Had a nice time (good food, Phil made the most yummy gateaux I have ever tasted, and good company, the very best way to spend an evening) but ended up sniveling through the whole evening and feeling more yuk as time went on. In fact I felt quite guilty inflicting my germs on them all and will be phoning in a few days to check no-one has got sick. On Sunday I went from feeling poorly to feeling down right ill by mid afternoon. I ached, was shivery, had abdo. pains and was wishing the day away. We had gone to bed at 1.30am (for why will follow) and was awake at 5.30am. At 1pm I thought it must be at least 4pm and, despite a sleep on the sofa, the day dragged terribly.
I fitted being ill around other things over the weekend. Tried to go and plant potatoes on Saturday (had done the digging in the week so it was literally just planting), had to rest several times and gave up half way through as I was so exhausted. Alice came to help. She obviously found it more arduous than I did - poor Alice does not do physical anything! Mid afternoon had a phone call from a friend saying they were in the midst of a family crisis and could she and 3 children come and park in the flat overnight. They arrived when we were at Helen and Phils and hence the 1.30am bedtime. (I took a Sudafed when we got home and soon felt better.) Fed 8 for breakfast and then hit the sofa for the rest of the day. By now Alice is going downhill with a cold and one of the visiting children was also sniffling and coughing. Talk about the house of plague! I was about to doze on one sofa with Alice wrapped on the other one when she said that Bridget was here. She was out on the pool deck talking to Eric who is lovingly restoring the pool water to a swimmable state (you remember how precious he is about this Carol!). They came in for tea and try as I might I could not stay awake so poor Bridget spent her few hours here chatting to Eric and the girls while I slept!! Sorry Bridget!
Phoned Mom and Daddy for a long chat on Sat am (that's why you couldn't get through Cheryl) and Alice phoned Katie as we had missed her birthday in the week. Katie dropped the phone and cut them off so we phoned back. She then cut them off again and I thought that was enough in overseas calls. Shame as I was really hoping to talk to Helen.
Spoke to Juliet this week. Have been feeling very guilty that I hadn't phoned for 10 days. They seem to be more accepting of the situation and Juliet certainly seemed less stressed. Poor Kev is going do-laley being at home all day. It has been 5 weeks now. I do hope they come right soon.
Bright blue skies outside and I am stuck in here! I may try and potter planting some seeds into trays later today but that will be my limit I think. Time for a snooze now.
One bright thing, Linda Clark is back this morning. Couldn't get used to Linda Berry (or is it Barry). No, not one but lots of bright things; Eric and I are happily married and plan on staying that way forever, we have stable jobs and I need never be unemployed (save breaking a leg or some such thing), we have healthy, happy (well if you ignore hormones!) children who despite all I say, we love totally and we live in a beautiful country and have a fabulous lifestyle.... and very dear friends, even if some of you are the other side of the world. Life is good.
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