After our late night and hectic-ness with John’s medical treatment last night, we were both tired this morning and chose to sleep on after John had had his antibiotic dose this morning. The medical intervention wasn’t as easy as we’d have liked, but certainly not such a kerfuffle as we were expecting.
The nurse came at seven o’clock as expected and, also as expected, took one look at the fact that John didn’t have a cannular in and promptly said she wasn’t qualified to fit one, so she’d have to send off for someone who was. The ‘someone who was qualified’ turned up about ten o’clock, so John flopped back into bed to catch up on his sleep as soon as she’d gone. I also stayed abed for a little while longer and didn’t get up until it was nearly lunchtime.
I decided to make banana pancakes for brunch and was soon preparing those, smothered in raspberries, blueberries and pecan nuts, all drizzled with maple syrup. Delicious.
After we’d eaten, we spoke to Michael on a video call. He’d phoned early this morning then again at lunchtime, at which neither time were we available. We also seemed to miss everyone else’s calls today too, as John said Paul had called and Richard left us a message on the landline. Not sure what we have been doing to miss the calls – perhaps we might both be a bit ‘Mutt ‘n Jeff’. Maybe catch up with them tomorrow?
Neither of us were keen to be busy again today, so we planned more sedentary options, like eating, drinking, watching TV, chatting and dozing.
Much of the afternoon was taken up with tennis again, which I thoroughly enjoyed. There were some really exciting matches. John took some time to be bidding on eBay for a gear lever for his beloved car and, as the afternoon wore on, he leapt up more and more frequently to check the bidding. I prepped an evening meal and when it was ready, it was a case of, “Can’t eat it yet. Five minutes. Got to watch the bids.”
It didn’t seem like five minutes later because he was soon back. He sat down eat and announced that he was thrilled to have won the auction. Well, that was very satisfying and some good news for once. Hoorah!
Rona had suggested the BBC TV programme ‘Life’ – a series of six episodes – so for our TV viewing this evening we thought we’d look at the first episode at least. In the end, we binge-watched the lot. All six episodes in one sitting. Great little programme for the older viewer I would say, and we really enjoyed it.
Of course, having binge-watched a whole series we found that the evening had disappeared and was away from us before we knew it. The doorbell rang and it was the nurses again for the night-time feed – sorry, sorry, dose of medicine.
So that’s the lot, folks. really nothing much to see here today. Hopefully tomorrow we’ll be more on our game.
Apart from John winning the eBay auction, the only other amazing thing today has been the coronavirus figures. Did you catch them on the news? If not, brace yourselves even more than you did yesterday…… Ready? 22,961 people have been reported as infected with the virus in the last 24 hours. 33 deaths in the community and 23 in hospitals on the 1st and 2nd October which, if you’ve been paying attention, is ten fewer than they reported for exactly the same timescale yesterday. You can do anything with numbers can’t you? And who knows what’s right and what’s wrong?
Talking of what’s right and what’s wrong, how many of you saw Trump, apparently exceedingly well, posting a video online and doing a drive-by for his supporters? Doesn’t seem to be much wrong with him, I thought. That’s the cynic in me. Certainly not ill compared to what we saw with Boris Johnson when he was hospitalised. Is it a ruse? Please don’t say it’s a ruse.
Take care everyone. God bless.