Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Yorkie1

lostinrates wrote: »

Dearest spirit, how wonderful to have you back with a big screen.

You don't think the good wishes stop now do you?

Thursdays are spirit day! 7:30 pm is the time we try to light candles or whatever, though some do other times ( home work, commutes, living on wrong side of planet, all that kind of thing gets on the way)

Seems tomorrow might be last formal one, but might as well be a good one with you at home, right?

Pastures new, candle phobic, even bought a candle. If that's not a symbol of how much you are adored around the nice parts I don't know how better to express it.

So lovely to hear from you Spirit and I, too, am going to adopt what LIR has written.

I do hope that something happens which means you don't fall into this postcode blackspot. It's just wrong that this still happens. So unfair.

Just enjoy being back in your own surroundings, with OH, for now.

Generali

Welcome home spirit. Sorry to hear that the expected level of care isn't as needed but hopefully you can make them see sense.

Another glorious day in paradise here. The sun is shining and it's all lovely.

michaels

Thinking of you Spirit and also DH and DD in what must be tough times for all of you x

LydiaJ

Not going to read all today's posts until tomorrow (which is my day off).

Staff meeting attended at work. Got home 7:10pm.
Marking done.
Church meeting attended.
18 short reports (250 characters each) done so far.
55 short reports to do tonight.

Oh, and we're getting inspected at school next week. :eek:
(The Independent Schools Inspectorate give a week's notice, which is longer than Ofsted do, but they require lots of extra documents per lesson that we're not required to produce in normal teaching.)

If I'm not around much, you'll know why.

Yorkie1

:eek: Good luck!

neverdespairgirl

Best of luck, Lydia!

lostinrates

Just like to say, the help getting dressed thing....more tedious and soul sapping for us than partner. DH still loves it.

I look weirder than usual ( hard to believe) when he chooses clothes though. Being dressed is intimate and caring. Your partner gets to know which are your comfy knickers;)


I know its corny, but make everything an opportunity for a joke and a positive where you can, it really helps the more prosaic side of needing help. If your DH is helping put your bra on and has time for a bit of a kiss, well......go for it.

Though I'm struggling ATM to count blessings and turn things round with normal lir determination, I've decided however much we save for op we need to save more. I'll be off my feet a few weeks / couple of months, so seems ideal time to have so etching done about this hyper pigmentation on my face......in bed, in recovery...burn off my skin at the same time......( if I'm allowed of course)

SingleSue

Busy day again today, gas man came out to try to sort out my central heating as it is beggered, rads upstairs were working but none downstairs were. I have ended up with 2 out of the 3 rads downstairs working but now my bedroom and toilet rads not working! He says there isn't much he can do save replacing the whole blooming lot...and the powers that be are still arguing between themselves over that.

At the same time, we were loft clearing, we found a better way to do it today to try to conserve my energy levels/back...I sat on the front room floor and he brought me things down to sort through. Worked well, I didn't get so tired and could keep up and he got plenty of exercise but also more organisation and in the end, we managed to sort more in a couple of hours between the two of us than we did on Sunday in a whole afternoon and 3 of us.

Then finally, school run....and the car died. It got me to the school ok, parked up, Josh came out and went to start it and nothing, completely dead. Luckily I do have breakdown cover and the man who can finally arrived (after I had to go into the school and ask to use the loo, was desperate!) and declared the battery dead as a dead thing. £120 later and my car is working again.....but I was by that time, very cold (school run, didn't put coat on as wasn't planning on leaving the car), very hungry, very thirsty and very stressed.

Tomorrow morning I have the OT coming back as the toilet surround is not working for us, it's great for support but very restricting and I think she may well put pressure on the housing association as they still haven't put any of the rails up or done the step outside.

GDB2222

Sue, on the central heating, perhaps the HA could give it a power flush? The system may have a load of sludge in it. It's a bit crazy to replace the whole system before trying that.

Can I ask which car breakdown company you are with?

Masomnia

Thinking of you, Spirit.