22 October 2011
Last night in bed was the worst ever. Not only were my knees and hip painful for but my left shoulder was excruciating and, in addition, I had a strange pain in the sole of my heel. It was like a red hot poker being thrust into it or large piece of broken glass. Contrary […]
21 October 2011
The good Dr Michael arrived late afternoon rom Australia (just at the appropriate time to crack open a bottle of champagne! – when the sun sets over the yard arm) en route to Sweden. He’s just stayed the night but will be back in early November. He is very fortunate in that, like me, he […]
20 October 2011
Tony and Jill (Griggs see yesterday’s the joke!) came to lunch with us today at the Cricketers. As it happens, I had not seen Griggsy for a month as he has not been able to play golf due to a bout of sciatica, so it was particularly nice to see them both. They were quite […]
19 October 2011
Paul, appeared for half an hour to babysit me before Jane arrived at 11.00. I was able to take advantage of this brief visit to get him to convert some of my incoming jokes etc to Word documents – they often come in enclosing in a table which makes it difficult to open. I heard […]
18 October 2011
I did go after all, to the golf club today despite the very strong chilly wind. The temperature was supposed to be 12 or 13 centigrade but I suspect the wind chill factor reduced that to around 7° C. I wore my Swedish padded jacket, a scarf and a woolly hat, so managed to complete […]
17 October 2011
I am glad to say what I woke up feeling no worse for yesterday’s excesses. I can hardly believe it. I spent half an hour or so the to-day with another MND sufferer extolling the virtues of the Dragon voice activation programme. For those readers who have been following my blog for the last six […]
16 October 2011
The second of the World Series Rugby sem-finals the New Zealand All Blacks started with an early try and dominated the first half, going in at the break 14 -6 up In the second half, Australia were stupendous and their forwards was magnificent and they comfortably won their place in the final 20 points to […]
15 October 2011
An exciting start to the weekend watching Wales play France in the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. Sadly, due to a poor referee decision early on, Wales had to play most of the game with 14 men. They battled very bravely but missed opportunities, one conversion and two possible penalties which […]
14 October 2011
What a shambles. I was supposed to attend the Rank Hospice in Cambridge today for a meeting with Dr Saunders and her pain relief experts. We got ourselves ready for the ambulance,, outside in the electric wheelchair, but when it arrived it seemed to us at it was too small to get the electric wheelchair […]
13 October 2011
Paul returned my laptop late afternoon but I was too tired to try out all of the programmes. However I did find one of two things I couldn’t do so Paul popped back on his way home and added some more programmes which he had previously removed. Sadly, Dragon does not seem to understand my commands any […]
D. Mark Cato
D. Mark Cato