20 July 2012
Here we are with seven days to go until the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games and the saboteurs are at work! There is a threat of a strike from some civil servants workers. I am not quite sure which branch, but something to do with immigration which will certainly disrupt the flow of […]
My Introduction To Golf
A short while after I arrived in Australia one of my new found friends asked me if I played golf. Regretfully I had to admit that I did not. “That’s a pity”, he said, “because I belong to one of the finest clubs in Melbourne, Kingston Heath and I heard yesterday that they are looking […]
19 July 2012
Russell’ the lounge chair engineer’ came this morning and quickly identified the problem, it was confined to the hand control unit. This was replaced and chair, once again, worked perfectly well. There was a little problem, in lowering me, with the new sling, in an upright position, it is absolutely useless if I am slumping […]
18 July 2012
Nine days to go for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games before I get onto that I should deal with a much more mundane drama on the home front. Around 6.30 last evening the NHS lounger chair decided to give up the ghost and stop working. Fortunately, it was up bright-in fact do the […]
17 July 2012
Drama at bedtime. The carer arrived at usual to prepare me for bed, last evening, and then took one look at the hoist and confessed that she was not familiar with the sling. Did the green loop go through the yellow loop before the blue loop etc , although she believed she had been shown […]
16 July 2012
Another good night. I really think Doctor West has got the combination of medication right to ensure a good evening’ s sleep. My other stockbroker, and friend, Mark Jenkins, kindly came down at lunchtime today in order to go through my portfolio with me but this time with Alice in attendance so she has an […]
15 July 2012
Following on from yesterday continuing the sharing of Penny de Quincy’s experience as a carer for her dear husband, who died from MND, earlier this year, I have reproduced her information, verbatim, below. I’ve just read your latest blog and wanted to tell you that Stuart also became anxious (completely out of character) and I […]
14 July 2012
Here we are almost halfway through July and there is no sign of the renowned English summer. Where are those dreamy days where it was really too hot to do anything other than to keep in the shade, or perhaps indulging the short periods of sun-tanning and then retire to the shade, I remember so […]
13 July 2012
As I promised yesterday I did search & find the anecdote concerning golf which is and can now be found at the end of the anecdote index under the title of My Introduction to Golf. This is well worth a read if you want to have a good laugh at my expense. Our first visitor […]
12 July 2012
We heard today from Addenbrookes Hospital that there is no need for me to attend anymore quarterly assessments. Alice was told that when a MND patient gets to this stage, in the disease, they usually carry out this assessment by telephone and then, if necessary, send out a palliative care nurse to attend anything which […]