No T Words mentioned at all - a fresh start

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What a difference a day makes, yesterday was balmy warmth and sunshine, so much so that we actually had lunch out in the garden but today is windy, cold and dripping with rain and more like winter weather. We're up with DD1 until tomorrow after bringing her home yesterday after our holiday in Sweden. We have tickets this evening for a talk by Gordon Buchanan the wildlife photographer which should be really interesting and then home in the morning as the girlie has much work to do before term starts in the middle of next week. It will be nice to get back to everyday routine now and get the growing season underway.

scottishminnie

I worked from home today and had a washing out on the line before 8 and inside just after 2 all dry. Just as well, we had a sharp shower not much later!

We also planted some of our veggies last weekend and I found some strawberry seeds so have planted them too. We will see what grows and what doesn't. Hopefully this weekend we will cut the grass for the first time.

I'm watching Millionaires Mansions this evening. What an eye opener, absolutely fascinating. Off to make myself a cup of Earl Grey in the break. That's my treat these days!

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It's been a wet and cold dreary day today, you'd never know it was April and we lit the stove just after lunch as He Who Knows was so cold. He got soaked walking Cookie this morning and is still warming up poor boy. I was luckier at lunchtime when I took her as it just dripped and stopped then dripped again so only got mildly damp (both of us). We've just had lasagne and salad for supper which was quite nice and we've been watching the IPL Cricket for a couple of days. It's usually lovely and warm when that's on TV and we've been sitting with open windows and it's been sunny outside...perhaps it's going to be a better summer this year as it's such a dismal spring??? I HOPE SO!!!!!

mardatha

Same up here MrsL - dull misty dismal 6C. And that east wind slices through you like a knife. So far it's the same as last year- no spring at all just an ongoing loop of November weather.

elona

mardatha

We are cold and wet here to. One of my DDs just phoned me from near Brighton to say what a beautiful hot day it was and the people she was seeing there said it had been like that for a week!!

She will get a shock when she gets back to Leeds later tonight.

scottishminnie

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Same up here MrsL - dull misty dismal 6C. And that east wind slices through you like a knife. So far it's the same as last year- no spring at all just an ongoing loop of November weather.

Working from home and looking out at horizontal torrential rain. I'm also really worried we are in for a repeat of last year without enough heat or sunshine to grow anything

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The fog went, the sun came out, the sky cleared and it became.....warm!!! First walkies of the year without needing a coat, YAY!!!

candlelight_2013

Good evening all,

Sorry I have been missing but it has been a bit frantic here.

As my dear friend Lyn knows, I had to take Himself into hospital a week last Monday because he was so ill. He has been ill for a long time but wouldn't see a doctor. They admitted him there and then, and after many tests and many questions and repeating the answers many times, he was diagnosed with heart failure.

He was at least 4 stone overweight, purely fluid. His right lung was full of fluid, his left slightly, his tummy was enormous, and his legs as hard as nails. He has cellulitis in his legs.

Anyway we now have to go to the hospital every morning where he has an intravenous diuretic administered, which makes him pee for England and is absolutely exhausting for him. I am hoping that part of his treatment might end on Friday, but we haven't been told yet. He has lost nearly 3 stone in just over a week. My poor husband has aged 10 years and is not always a good patient for me.

He has his own heart failure Nurse, who is lovely, and must be in touch with her the moment he suspects he might have put weight on over night, because that might mean the fluid is building up again. The condition can be managed but not cured.

As you can see nothing has been normal for the past week or so, but we will get there eventually.

I am sorry I haven't been able to read up on the thread.

Much love to you all

Candlelightx

LaineyT

Dear Candlelight,

Am so sorry that you and Mr C are still going through it with daily hospital visits, how exhausting and worrying for you both. Hopefully that this will eventually stabilise the fluid in his body and allow things to come back to a tad more normal.
Thinking of you both with much love and best wishes, please look after yourself in all this as well m'dear, it's easy not to.

It's been a lovely day here, sunny and warm, spent a good majority of it outside, as my freckles now testify! So love this time of year, days getting longer and warmer, everything coming out in blossom and all of a sudden the countryside is green. As Pop Larkin would say " you can fair hear the grass grow " ....

Love to all xx

hoglet121

Candlelight,

All my very best wishes to you and Himself. I hope that a management routine will help you both, and that once he's settled into it he becomes an easier patient for you. I am pleased that his heart failure nurse is lovely and I hope she will be useful for you as well as him.

lots of love
Hogelt xx