Singing

Posted on December 1, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Celebration, Choir, Christmas, Health, Illness, Life, Memory, Music, Parkinsons, Singing, Thinking, Time6 Comments

For health….

My Parkinsons is getting worse so I’m getting some therapy to help keep my voice strong and help my throat muscles.

I’ve joined a few choirs over the years and found out singing is great for lung health, breath control, and keeping your throat clear.

So this week I’m actually going to 4 rehearsals and will be singing with friends at a Christmas show on Friday. My main concern is my poor balance and weakening muscles. Shaking and stuttering isn’t helping either, I need to keep trying to improve. Maybe I need physiotherapy. Thanks for hearing my moaning!

Catching up

Posted on October 26, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Digital drawing, Drawing, Health, Illness, Life, Memories, Parkinsons, Thinking, Youdraw4 Comments

Youdraw drawing. I’m trying to catch up with things but the youdraw interview put me in a spin. So many old memories. Old friends, thinking about what I was doing and what I was capable of twenty or so years ago. And the frustration of no longer having those abilities.

I want to think about how I can get some of it back. I’m going to see if I can get better medication for Parkinsons. Does life have to be this hard? Mentally and physically I’m feeling my age.

I haven’t got Covid!

Posted on September 17, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cold, Covid 19, Doctors, frustration, Illness, Life, Negative, pcr test, symptoms, Test, Thinking2 Comments

Phew! I don’t have Covid now. I think I might have had it this week. Sneezing, feeling hot, sore throat, achy. I’m relieved and I am feeling a little better. I need to go and get cat food and things for myself, but I am so tired all I want to do is sleep.

Sorry to have a moan, but I think I caught this when I visited the doctors last week for a different problem. The waiting room was full and you never know what’s in the air. Maybe I should wear a mask if I go shopping? Just hope I can get my Covid booster soon. Take care all. X

Long day

Posted on September 4, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged antibiotics, frazzled, Health, Illness, Ivy, Life, Memories, Thinking, Time, Tired, Window2 Comments

My upstairs stairs window.

My life had been quiet during the last few weeks. Long boring days, my ivy has been growing and I can trace it’s growth in my memory, almost like watching paint dry. I need to get someone in to help.

My brain was frazzled by the heat and now it’s getting cold I’m more interested in keeping warm and cozy. The cats keep me company, either on my lap or on the bed. The last three days have been worse, the skin on my legs is sore and I’m starting a course of antibiotics tomorrow. I think I have a temperature. I’ve been too stationary with not being able to drive so I think I need bucking up a bit. I’ll try and do a bit of walking tomorrow. Fingers crossed I’ll feel more myself soon. X

Bad day

Posted on August 10, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Aching, Cat, Cheered, cramping, Hidden, Illness, Life, Parkinsons, Sad, Thinking, Tired, WorryLeave a comment

My day has been spent shut inside the house. Not wanting to go out, shaky and achy. My feet are cramping, my hands tremble and twist tightly. I started doomscrolling which was a mistake. I also wanted to keep out of the heat and humidity.

This is the reality of a bad day of Parkinsons. Quiet, just mooching, worrying, thinking about the future. Things I can’t do. Fears of what I need to be careful about.

I need to put washing on the line, I really need shopping. But I had trouble washing my hair. I’m not supposed to get water in my eye because of the surgery, but leaning backwards in the shower feels very unsteady.

Reading about other people’s problems makes me realise how much people have to put up with. Life isn’t always easy.

BUT my Cat just jumped on my lap. She’s happy and purring… Not so bad then..

Cataract eve

Posted on July 31, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cataracts, heart failure, Illness, operation, Tuxedo cat, vets, WorryLeave a comment

No WordPress free images, not that sort!

I am due in surgery tomorrow so I was going to tidy up and remove trip hazards. But that was before one of my cats decided to be ill. I spent a lot of this morning trying to entice him into his pet carrier. In the end I had to scoop him into it. I didn’t know what was wrong with him but he was breathing fast. It wasn’t right so I took him to the vets.

It turns out he might have heart failure, so he’s now on tablets for the rest of his life. I don’t know what I’ll do if passes away, but at least I found out in time.

So anyway the operation is tomorrow.

I’ve done nothing to get organised, just been napping this afternoon. I will have to get up early tomorrow. But I feel relieved that my cat will be OK. How I will get the tablets in him while I am recuperating? I don’t know.

Cat not well.

Posted on July 30, 2025July 30, 2025 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, cataract, Driving, Emergency, Illness, Life, Parkinsons, Stress, Tuxedo cat, vets, Worry3 Comments

My Cat started breathing fast this evening. I’d taken him to the vets yesterday and he was fine. They gave him some meds but I don’t think this is anything to do with this. I think he might have a fur ball. He sounded a bit wheezy before his breathing changed. After about an hour things have settled down and he is sleeping.

I rang the vets office anyway and they said they would call me back. I dare not drive to the emergency vets because of my Parkinsons and cataracts. They are on the other side of the city and I don’t want to put him or me at risk. So I’ll stay up with him and take him down my local vets in the morning.

It’s frightening when you live on your own and things go wrong. If I can’t rely on myself I’m in trouble. Age and the aging process is a pain.

Hay-fever and health.

Posted on July 7, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dry, Hay-fever, Health, Illness, Life, Painful, Pollen, sneezing, Tired, vaccination, WindLeave a comment

It’s been hot so I’ve got the back door open. But it’s dry and breezy and now my nose and eyes are streaming. I think I’ve let a lot of pollen in.

I’ve also just had the shingles vaccination this afternoon. I’ve had shingles in the past, and it’s not a nice illness to get. I was warned the injection might cause pain in my arm, and it has! It’s a real deep aching sharp pain! It may also cause flu like symptoms. Consequently I’m feeling very tired, achy, and not much like walking the short distance to shut the door!

Wish me luck. I am in no danger, just being a wuss!

Tired out again.

Posted on June 3, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged challenging myself, I need rest, Illness, Life, overdoing things, Tired, Trying to keep busyLeave a comment

Ugh! Been a long day. Stuff to do first thing, then the local writers group. I was thinking of singing with some friends after that but I was too tired. I was late for yoga group because of a phone call. After yoga choir practise.. Came home via the local takeaway because I didn’t have energy to cook. Now I’m debating going to bed early as I need to go to the hospital first thing before an art group for mental health, then a committee meeting for the Mystery Play. Finally tomorrow night is a singing in a local pub. I’ve got involved in too much stuff possibly. But it keeps me busy and I don’t think of hubby as much when I’m doing things.

Needled!

Posted on April 5, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged attachment, Illness, Memories, microscope, needle, Phone, Tired, upset stomach1 Comment

I got a little microscope that used to attach to my old phone which was thinner than this one. A few photos like this have popped up on my Facebook memories today. There are a few interesting ones of woven cloth. I might share. Anyway, having a quiet day after a very upset stomach last night and I’m shattered because I slept downstairs on my armchair. I’d got things planned for today but I’ve given them a raincheck.

Mallaband-Brown

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