18 September2012
The sedated feeling remained with me until I went to bed and as I could not make much sense I decided to keep today’s entry to a minimum. One thing struck me as I was struggling to dictate something, and that was the loss of power in my voice. I have never considered this might […]
17 September 2012
I cannot pretend that I did a great deal today. I’m still suffering from this overwhelming desire to close my eyes and to sleep. I am convinced that this is a result of adjustments to my medication that have brought me into the land of the sedated. In one of my former lives I was […]
16 September 2012
Having spoken of the possibility of respiratory failure only in yesterday’s entry, I had a very uncomfortable period this morning during the passage from bed to chair and so on through to finally being dressed before transfer to my study chair. This was a typical situation of me being very uncomfortable, my inability to sit […]
15 September 2012
My lovely’ and I were engaged in our early morning chat waiting for our carers to come in shower and dress me and from the way the conversation went in became clear to me that my family had been alerted to the possibility that I could be carried off at any time through respiratory failure. […]
14 September 2012
There has been a lot of who-hah in the national and international press, over the last week or two concerning the conduct of our young of royalty, specifically Prince Harry, the younger brother of our future King and the relatively newly Duchess of Cambridge, who, as things stand at present, will become our future Queen. […]
13 September 2012
Yarn, one of the three carers from Two Counties, who looks after me throughout the night, reported to Alice this morning that I had had the best night’s sleep, possibly for years. I had slept for six hours showing very little need to be turned. So concerned was Yarn that there was possibly something amiss […]
12 September 2012
Getting down to the hard reality of life, I am thrilled to find that my voice is sufficiently strong in the morning to deal with my blog and it is only in the late afternoon, or early evening, that it has faded below the recognisable volume required to make this whole voice recognition process work […]
11 September 2012
It is about 10.30 in the morning. Yesterday a milestone was passed. Our Creda drying machine gave up the ghost. I cannot say precisely when we bought it, but it is certainly older than daughter Chloe (born 1967), in other words the best part of half a century. In speaking to the engineer, he made […]
10 September 2012
No English man’s diary would be complete without a running commentary on the weather. I don’t know whether this is an English trend or not but nevertheless it seems imperative to subject the reader to a description, of the weather, even down to the last drop of rain every month, which seems to produce some […]
9 September 2012
The way I felt after my visit to the golf club, a couple of days ago, following that to Lord’s, on my birthday, made me realise what a limited amount of energy I had to expend, on a daily basis and, once used up, any further effort would make me feel utterly fatigued. The possibility […]