🦞 The Lockdown Gang still chatting 🦞

Good news.
My mother-in-law's house is apparently sold now.
The buyer has given up on some of the searches.
So
😱😱😱
All is suddenly in order.
Thursday i was told 20 working days. But now they want to complete quickly... 9th November.
😬😬😬

Still full of stuff as may not have sold.
Very very weary.

I did send a short pm to Kaimoana in the hope she can read it.

I too am doing a Council funded Strength and Balance course. I really must do the exercises! It does help I think, but I missed two while I was away and the last one was cancelled. I must get a nice thick exercise mat as apparently the next steps are floor exercises and lessons in getting up!

Today I spent in Fakenham Eye Clinic and being driven home (via coffee and cake shop) after having my right eye lasered as things have got a bit misty after the cataract operation. Hopefully successfully so things on the starboard side aren't as fogged up. Still waiting for the improvement. 4-6 hours they said.

Oh sorry Kaimoana haven’t seen previous message. Yes the Lockdown gang are under coronavirus because that’s what we were. Locked down during the virus. Amazing we’re still going.
Been out today for a lovely walk in beautiful gardens. Done more walking than I have for ages and can hardly move now. Have a good weekend all. Xx

Jan16 the whole of this chat is under the coronavirus section of the forums.
It's where it was originally understand.. before I came along.

Once again Im confused - doesnt take much! Am I in the covid lockdown section and if so can I contact Kaimoana and will she be able to read it??!
Ixion I used to do a sort of Strength and Balance class and it just made me knackered! Dont think Ive felt youthful and supple since I was 16!!
Lovely sunny day in Norfolk after a very misty start. Having a quiet day today after several days of visitors which has been lovely but tiring.

Here we all are! Kaimoana

What do you need, Kaimoana?
You are here now, in the covid lockdown section!
Hooray!

Did anyone get my previous message? Ìneed help to get back into the covid...lockdoŵn section

Just popping in to wish everyone well.
Busy day today, even busier tomorrow with admin, setting up meetings, ringing the hospital to find out exactly what this 24 hour ambulatory cardiac monitor will involve and whether I really have to get the blessed machine back to them by 08.30 the next day.
08.30?😳 For a retiree?🤷‍♀️

Then off to Strength and Balance, where I feel positively youthful and relatively supple for an hour of my life once a week.
Precious times😆

It really is so good to hear from Kaimoana. I do hope the new place with it's sunny veranda starts to feel a little like home soon.

I find GN very frustrating in that there's no way to change the text size or font to make it easier for us to read. There must be others who would appreciate a larger text size especially.

Thanks. NotSpaghetti. I'm so glad Kaimoana is comfortable and has good people around her even if she doesn't feel at home and probably never can.
Sad that her eyesight is not improving.

It is hard counting ourselves in the aged parent category.

DD had to correct and rephrase the letter I sent my solicitor yesterday. Having your child correct your spelling is sobering. 😟

It's good to see the sun again and so many birds who must have been hiding from the storms.

I hope you enjoy art today Doodle.

My friend from the north is coming to stay in a week or two which I am looking forward to.

Ceilidh dancing tonight if I have the energy.

Here is a message from Kaimoana who replied to me:

I am still alive, if not exactly ķicking! Now only using Tablet not pc, so very, very hard to xee. Am in a rest home... in Auckland. Have own room opening onto sunny veranda, good food and cari g staff. Still, my mind is saying all the time "I want to go home". Impossible of course. Would love to hear from you all. Much loves

ixion I often talk about meeting elderly people and realise I should include myself in that 🤣🤣
* Grammaretto* glad the dentist and Gaelic all went well. Lovely photo.
Church for me this morning then art tomorrow. Sleep well all

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Jan that must be so hard having your DH undergoing immunotherapy 40 miles away and away from you. 😟

As Doodle says, accept all the help you can.

I hope the weather improves. A tree surgeon was supposed to come today but didn't. He must be too busy.

My Irish helper is beginning to settle in. Tonight while I was at my evening class, she cooked a very nice vegetable soup and she lit the fire. She continued to process apples.

I had a dentist appointment this morning and Gaelic tonight. Both were fine. Our teacher adores Halloween and even brought her freshly baked pumpkin and chocolate muffins to share with us. She was in costume. The moon was very atmospheric tonight.

I hope your apple tree can be rescued, Grammaretto. Could you graft a cutting and take it with you in a pot?
How's 's your interesting helper today?

Thank you for your kind thoughts, Doodle, about last week's funeral. It was very squelchy but beautiful and moving.
Except that I assumed the elderly, white haired lady mourner was his mother.
How sad for her, I thought.
Then I realised that the deceased was 82, and this was his sister.

We are all roughly of the same age, the same generation.
We are all The Elderly these days.
😢

Jan take all the company and help you can. Sometimes others like to feel that they are helping out. It is a long trip to the hospital for your Dh.
Nfk any more trips out in the camper bubble.?
Grammaretto i wonder if your home is getting more and more empty as things get taken or sold. I hope you keep some pieces that mean a lot to you.
I’ve been to the hairdressers today. Might as well not have bothered coming out into torrential rain and gale force winds but at least it’s a bit shorter so easier to handle.

Thanks to you all and special thanks to those who took the time to encourage me to carry on. I will keep going but sometimes it just gets too much. Its not helped by the fact that DH is still receiving immunotherapy every three weeks 40 miles away. He does get hospital transport but it just makes the day longer for both of us. Im lucky in that my friends and sometimes youngest daughter spend the day with me which goes against my independent nature but I have to swallow my pride! Thanks again everyone xx

Just popping by (on Grand son duty) to say I was quite impressed by how well you do Jan. It took me a while to actually notice that your hand wasn't right. You manage very well and have obvioulsy achieved more than you realise. Please don't do yourself down. XX

Oh Grmmaretto your poor apple tree. What a shame. Sounds like a very prolific tree. I love apple juice.
Hope all went well with the man from the shelter and he took only what he was supposed to.
notspaghetti I think all dogs are lovely if well behaved and with the right handling. Our grandsons German shepherd is the sweetest thing going but has been known to make people drop their shopping and run at the mere sight of her.
Jan is it really four years. I won’t pretend to know what it’s like as I have no idea. I know for the short period when I broke my right wrist and had to do everything left handed that I was so frustrated with every little thing. It is hard when you lose the ability to do the things you take for granted. I know my DH got very down when he wasn’t able to walk anymore. I hope there is still improvement to come. I’m sure your Dh is happy to do all he does.
Glad you didn’t delete your post it’s lovely to hear from you. As ixion says, good times and bad.

Note, too, to Mamissimo if you are passing through-
do pop in!

Dear Jan, please don't apologise, nor seek to have your post removed.
We are here for each other, the good times and the bad, small but perfectly formed. You know we are, and whenever you post, it is good to hear from you.

Not making what you think of as 'adequate progress' must be deeply frustrating, nay devastating, and milestones, such as today's, must be hard.

Perhaps, as Grammaretto suggests, you could arrange a small break away to give you both a change of scenery and routine.

I guess that writing might be tiring but we do love hearing from you.

Xx

Hi. This is to apologise for the self pittying earlier post.i have tried to delete it with no success. Thank you Grammaretto for your reply.

Oh "mo chreach" Jan. as they say in Gaelic.
Please don't apologise. This is what we are here for to listen to eachothers' woes and offer sympathy or advice if we can.

It must seem a long and lonely road without much let up. The rain does not help.

I hope you can plan a nice holiday for both of you so he doesn't have to cook and you don't have to feel guilty for being unable to.

I hope that there has been some improvement but it must be so frustrating for an active person like yourself to have to give up so many things.

Sending 🤗 hugs

Today it is 4 years since my stroke. I look back on the 4 years - which feel more like 44 - snd wonder how far I have come. Not very far is the answer! So I walk round the house with a stick - manage to walk outside very badly also with a stick and and only short distances. My left hand and arm are still pretty useless! I am permanently tired doing virtually nothing having coffee with a friend for instance wears me out but its worth it!
I will shut up in a bit - promise! This is despite paying physios a small fortune and also doing exercises on my own admittedly not as often as I should! My poor husband does all the cooking and washing and runs around after me!
Sorry folks for being such a miserable old lady and I will stop moaning now! Somehow 4 years seems a long time for very little. And its pouring with rain!!!

The apple is a Bramley and very productive. My Helper has now collected several carrier bags full, made 5 bottles of juice (delicious) and peeled and chopped more for the freezer. I hope to be able to somehow save it. It's still attached to the roots. The tree surgeon is a regular visitor here.

DD in the Highlands has been without power since yesterday morning and their school is closed today so that's a pity. I think and hope they can cope now that the family are growing up. It was a worry when they were babies.

The man from Shelter is coming again today and my Helper has been told to show him what to take. However since she's not up yet and I have a class to go to, l shall just hope for the best.

Have you used your extra hour wisely?