Although John said he had a disturbed night’s sleep last night, he actually looked a bit better this morning and seemed steadier on his pins, so I was delighted to see that. He also seemed a bit better in spirit – brighter and much more with it. Marvellous. And the sun was shining. Yay!
As John hadn’t had much sleep overnight, however, he made up for it during the day. “I’m going to go upstairs to sort out some of Mum’s affairs and make some phone calls, ” I told him. “Yep. Yep. All good” he said, so I left him sat in the chair in the lounge – and when I went to check on him a bit later he was a-snoozing. Bless him.
I left him asleep and carried on with my tasks. I was keeping my eye on the clock though, because I was due to go to yoga. However, Harry, who comes from MacMillan to chat with John on a Tuesday, didn’t arrive – so that knocked yoga class on the head. Mind you, it meant I got a bit more sorting out done.
When I came downstairs later, I was pleased to see that John was awake and sorting out some of his affairs on the computer. I knew he was a lot brighter.
We had a spot of lunch and then I suggested we get a breath of fresh air. We had a few errands to run at the shops, and we needed to drop the hospital discharge letter into the doctors’ surgery as well. I nipped into the Post Office and John tootled on down the road to the doctor’s on his scooter. “I’ll catch you up,” I said, more in hope than expectation.
I met him coming back up the road – he’d managed to drop the documents in, but he said that having abandoned the scooter at the doorway of the surgery, it was a bit of a struggle to walk from the door to the desk. “I haven’t got much of a right leg,” he pronounced. Oh….. makes walking a bit difficult, that!
On the way back home, I called into the pharmacy and John went on home. “I’ll do a little bit of tidying in the garage while I wait for you to come back.” he said. Righty-ho.
I happened to meet Linda and Brendan just coming out of the pharmacy as I was going in, so we stopped and had a bit of a chat; and then I had to queue a bit in the pharmacy so I was a few minutes longer than expected getting home. John was in the kitchen, shaking his head. “I only tidied about four things before I felt too tired,” he sighed. “I think I’ll have another sleep.” Good idea. Catch up on the beauty sleep you missed the night before, eh?
This evening Michael came round to keep John company while I went to my ‘Exploring Faith’ group. It was refreshing to see everyone and to debate the mysteries of the stories in the Bible. I don’t understand half of them. Mind you, neither do my fellow explorers always understand them either, so we have great fun trying to tease out what’s what. It turned into a bit of a philosophy session…. ‘What is truth?’ was the question posed. Hmmm…..
John and Michael, meanwhile, enjoyed their evening together chatting and watching the UEFA Champions League – Manu U vs Galatasaray. The evening didn’t end well though, as Man U lost, much to their disgust. Comments like: ‘Should have crossed/saved it/shot/stayed onside’ were much to the fore. Hoping for a better result next time.
So there we are. Quite a full day for a Tuesday. I am hoping the ol’ man sleeps better tonight and wakes up a bit more refreshed and is as bright as he was this morning. He’s got to be on form tomorrow – we’ve got visitors and it’s Quiz Night!
Take care everyone. God bless.