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 […]
11 July 2012
I’m pleased to be able to report that I got through last evening without pain or a nausea attack. This may well be down to a slight change in my medication recommended by Doctor West. Instead of just taking one Ranitidine Hydrochloride 150 mg tablet per day, the Doctor suggested taking another one first thing […]
10 July 2012
I’m sorry to have do record yet another emergency which occurred when the 6.30 carer came in last evening to get me ready for bed. When I was hoisted up I found my head was pointing down and my feet were right up in the air. As a result I could not breathe and panicked. […]
9 July 2012
Yesterday, late afternoon, I had another nausea attack. It wasn’t too serious but came in waves. When it was time to eat my supper, I managed without too much difficulty and felt none the worse for it. Indeed the nausea did not return. Alice is intent on mentioning this to Doctor West, but frankly I […]