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Daily Poem (Another one of mine, bringing back memories I'd rather forget).

I wrote about my stalker once, 

the cancer cells that hover. 

Are they all still in there? 

I really shouldn’t bother.

Floating through my lymph nodes 

and possibly my blood. 

There lurks in every corner,

in every nook and cranny 

several stalkers closing in 

upon this fragile granny.

Creeping through my brittle bones 

like moss strewn rocks and grimy stones 

And then of course, my poor old chest. 

I keep it hidden in a vest 

to keep at bay old Pneumonia 

and poisonous Pseudomonas

that gives me coughs and wheezes

not to mention sneezes.

Vasculitis Did I mention ? 

Those inflamed vessels sole intention 

is causing pain and inflammation 

with itchy spots and nasty rashes. 

I wish they all would go away.

That's all for today. I had my blood test this morning, and I still hurt all over. ☹️

Hi Joan thank you it's great Lucy's shoulder and her hip too of course, the scar hardly shows and the arm works so well. My neighbour is really well we had our last cup of socially distanced tea together yesterday as i think we will be in tier 2 after the weekend😕 Love to you and Sue and the carers ((()))

Well Carol that is all very positive. I am sorry you need hearing aids, but glad we are lucky enough to be able to have them in this country. I bet you do better with yours than Mr T! For a start you will wear them properly!

Interesting that you can hear your youngest so easily she must speak really clearly and well. Maybe she should work with deaf children😉

Go Lillie. Lucy did the same with her epilepsy meds when she got to a certain age the liquid was just too much and nauseating. So she went on to the tablets and never looked back. Stood her in good stead too when she has her Leukaemia treatment. A lot of the kids struggle to take tablets these days. I am sure she will help other children going through the same bless her.

As for Graycie she is the funniest little thing she really is! They are all at such lovely ages ❤️🤸

Hi Kath I hope you are much less sore today ((()))🌈good your bloods are done though.

I can see from your picture that it was a tough day and your poem which is as usual spot on and totally relatable. 😘

Barbara Legs will post her last instalment later today she said then less frequent updates. She is a very strong lady yes as is Lucy. I just get on with it and suspect they both do too as do you, Joan, Kath Chris Christine and Carol and of course mig!

I love the wedding photos 😍

Good idea to have mentioned that cats in new homes often hide for a day or two. Strategically placed litter and food is necessary, but soon Cookie2 will be on Carol's lap🐱

Gosh the ceiling came in!! What memories you have done wonders with the house haven't you! Such fabulous memories with the kids so little too they grew up there then it made a home for your GDs.🏡

How is Niamh and your bro and his GF?

Today Kari is coming over to cook with her DIL both have been shielding so I am not worried. Will have the windws open too including the ones in the ceiling....antibaccing this morning for THEM!

Love to everyone

mushroom frittata for Kath especially eggs and mushrooms!

Daily Poem (there are many types of pain. This is just one).

Here and There

We alternate between here

and there. You see,

there is a line, crooked and cracked,

an emaciated demarcation,

a highlight in air, breathlessly coughing

and smelling of phlegm.

It would be very painful

to cross it, this line.

Unable to be broken,

we wax in and out.

How to describe such a thing?

Mind-numbing and distracting,

distasteful, unpleasant, depressing and miserable.

Regret, helplessness, extreme

sadness. Sick,

like you’re sick.

What pulls us along is an anti-happiness,

it drags us past the line,

it is an anger and an envy, a struggle for

God knows how long.

It nests in suicidal thoughts,

family problems, rolled-up eyes, severe

shock, pain.

Pain, it’s like,

it’s a…

A scar, a feeling I couldn’t recognize,

a breaking of the arm, a finger cut off,

a scrape of the knee,

a ball to the head, hurt jaw, appendicitis, unbearable

distress, tears, a scream, almost

dying. Well,

I don’t like pain.

You can’t think, can’t do anything. Panic,

confusion. There is a leaving behind,

a change of identity—

you lend a hand

because you have to. You are supposed to do that.

To help. The pity, the obligatory sad eyes.

I wanted to stay away, I was really

annoyed at the hack of her cough,

her eyes, feverish.

I actually wanted to avoid her, avoid

crossing the line.

The millionth tripping from one side

to another sounds like fish scales,

feels like rain, the starting

and stopping, the forgetting and remembering

of hoarse throat, runny nose,

seasonal allergies, itchy and flushed.

Forget about it,

concentrate on something else, calm down,

try to ignore it for

telling people won’t change anything,

screaming and shouting won’t do anything,

It’s like no one understands, I deal with it

myself, I can kinda block it out.

Everyone does things to alleviate it.

I’ll pray, but the only thing

that really makes it go away is time.

Halos of stars plaster the sky

and the constellations only appear

when a story is made for them. Let us figure then

a way to line everything up against this thin mark

between two vast caverns. The body flung

from here to there

is yours and mine. As it will always be

your body, our pain.

Our pain, my body.

Stephanie Wang Zuo

Joan, it was pain from arthur, not the blood test. In my poor swollen hand and wrist (RA). In my hip and spine OA and OP.

Toni, thank you for the frittata, I really savoured it.

Carol we had a cat once who found a hidey hole underneath the back of our then gas fire. I was scared she'd get burned, but she didn't.

Barbara, I haven't been reading Linda's writing about her operation. I never knew her.

Another terrorist attack on Paris. 😟

Evening everyone. 4 weeks since my eye op and my sight is improving. Still a bit blurry and there's a black line though words so still difficult reading. My glasses are three years old so help very slightly with my right eye but make the left much worse now but not much pain and only a little irritation.

I think we'll be going in to tier 3 any day now. It's for the best as our cases are still going up and one of our hospitals has had to take over another ward for covid patients.

I had a quick look over previous posts. Has Lucy got a new shoulder? The photo looks like she's recovered well.

Has it just been Aiden's anniversary? I hope Bill is coping ok. Still seems strange to come in here and not find him looking after someone.

Hope you are all staying safe. X

KATH

Can you help this lady at all with some reassurance/experience?

Daily Poem (I don't know who William Worthless is, but I like his poem).

zoo breakout

the animals in the zoo they were getting bored

no one came too see them thy just felt ignored

so they planned a breakout decided to break free

go back to the jungle where  they all should be

waited for the dark to escape at night

waiting for the moment when the time was right

the fences they were high all around the ground

the gates were all locked up and securely bound

so they dug a hole underneath the fence

taking it in turn the digging was immense

everyone escaped now the animals were free

headed for the jungle where they all should be

they boarded on a ship and hidden out of view

they had stowed away no one ever knew

the reached the shores of Africa home again once more

now they all were free just like they were before

Written by

WILLIAM WORTHLESS#

Toni, I hope I gave some help to the lady. I've even invited her to our Creakies group. What do I see? runny eggy sarnie. Are there more? I'll have them all please. Yes, our Aidan would be very upset at he events EN FRANCAIS Forgive the fact I don't know how to put a Cedilla in.

Joan, I'm sorry I keep moaning. But thank you for putting up with me.

My spine is playing up, I need to take a break

Evening all

it’s been a bit busy lately we have both been getting things for our pusskins who we will be getting soon. As we are away from Monday to Friday next week. If we had not been away we would have been having her today. Still not much longer. I think the only thing I think we have to get now is food for her. Today we went a brought a cat carrier and a cat bed.

grandson tell me today that his partner has tested positive for Covid she was with her mum who also tested positive Symptoms. So they were both tested in case grandson test came back negative but he hadn’t actually been with her mum. He was actually glad because 2 days before he had been with his mum and dad. His partner is ok at the moment just has headache and a slight cough. No temperature. Or change in smell and taste.

he did make me laugh though we were talking about some Baby fish he has in his tank he was saying no matter how much he tells Kian they are fishies he insists they are titties the mind boggles. 🤣🤣

sorry this post is short but I have only just got around to looking at the ipad

I am adapting to the hearing aids quite well I think at the moment I am not allowed to wear them outside at the moment until Monday. Then the problem starts hearing aids, glasses, and masks on all at once. Not sure how I will manage it to be honest. I can manage the glasses with them if I am careful when I take the glasses off.

not a photo of the little people but this photo of me was take on my camera by Lillie when she about 4 years old. I was staying with my daughter at the time

I will leave you now with love and sparkles to all ❤️❤️❤️❤️🌈🌈🌈🌈

Hi Carol you are doing well with your hearing aids. Knowing you you will soon get used to the specs glasses and hearing aid puzzle!!!😁 Then you can show Mr T a thing or two!

I am so excited about your pusskin coming home soon too. Cookie2 is a very lucky girl having all these new bits and pieces to welcome her to her furrever home😘 Just enjoy the break away with her to look forward to on your return.

Great photo Lillie! 4 years ago she is a good little photographer.

I do hope your GS stays well and is careful now I have heard of the tests being negative and then people going on to retest positive later on. good luck to his partner I hope she makes a swift recovery bless her ((()))🌈

Kids are funny! I remember Lucy at about 4. I was teaching her to draw birds you know how you do like a sort of letter 'M' and we drew a row and she started singing ti**y b*m b*m b*m pointing at the row of 'birds'!

Barbara I am sure Niamh had a great time out with you and even if there were lots of people outside is still safer isn't it?

Ooh chips!!! Mr B didn't make me any😓I love my 'real' chips too😓hehe.

Those poor people in the nursing home that's dreadful I do hope they all do better than people did first time around.((())) Lock us down Govt for heaven's sake then maybe we could see family at Christmas!

You are right Kath doesn't moan and none of us really do here we just give and receive support.

Joan good idea teaching Niamh to knit. I like that. I feel the crochet hook might come out soon it's getting chilly....love to you and Sue and the carers ((()))

Kath I LOVE the pic of all the animals they remind me of our sanctuary. I think Aidan is still looking after them all with the help of Johnny and the supervet!

Go those animals escaping from the Zoo! Great poem.

Thanks for helping the lady . She accepted both or answers so i think we helped her. If I spot something I think we can help with it saves us all trawling every day. I look at 'recent posts' while my meds kick in and I have my coffees.

Yes runny egg!!!!!!!!!! for you. Aidan loved France like me I am also not sure how to do my French 'C'🤔 I wonder if any clever admins do???

On that subject French breakfast croissants

pain au chocolat too!

Love to Chris and Christine - I heard from her yesterday she is starting to feel a little stronger 🙂

Hi all 😊

With regards to the Cedilla I'm afraid I don't know how to enter it normally, but the easiest way is to copy and paste it from something which does have it in:

français

Hope this helps!

Shell

Evening all

We lockdown it us not before time..he should have done it weeks ago because people will want to go out on mass in December Christmas shopping🙄

Toni thankyou for the French breakfast.. still thinking if the poor people there...x

Yes it certainly feels safe outside and everyone was staying clear of others..

Thankyou for Copying Linda post..shes us lovely trying to help others..xx

Christine hopefully you eye op will go ahead soon..I understand some of what you are going through.. your poor son what a shame his efforts have been wrecked..🙄xx

Joan your lovely little doggies going to meet your neighbour.. bless..like you say they know why he was there...😅xx

Carol you enjoy your break ..Cookie will be very happy in its new bed..bless..I hope your grandson.. was it..will be OK xx

Is that everyone..sorry if I have missed you out..

Love to all

Xxxxxx

Sorry didn't get round to everyones places had a bit of an accident.

Stay safe everyone. X Mig

Daily Poem (another of mine, so you've possibly seen it before).

Friendship

A friend stands by me when I'm right

And also when I'm wrong.

A friend supports me when I'm weak

But needs me when I'm strong.

A friend is worth their weight in Gold

And now I know it's true,

There's no-one in the whole wide world

As good a friend as you, and you, and you and you and you.

So we are to go into lockdown again!

mig, how many trees did you fly into?

I was so busy trying to create a poll for the Creakies yesterday (which failed, I ran out of time - SORRY. Will members please help me out by popping in and posting which of the drugs I've listed you have either taken in the past, or are still taking now.

Love to everyone. ❤️