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.

Not been out since Monday

Posted on November 2, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Empty, Fed up, Feelings, Food, Green woman, Illness, Painting, Poem, Poetry, staying inside, Stress2 Comments

Not been out, not felt well

Achy bones, tummy pain

Been asleep, tired all day

All my foods been thrown away

I feel like s***, I want to cry

I’m fed up and not feeling spry

I’ve done my best but not been blest

With good health? No!

So I’m stressed!

I don’t

Posted on March 25, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged ambition, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1888, Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Stress, TimeLeave a comment

How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?

Look at the sky, it’s blue,

I love that wonderful hue

I could ignore it

Pass it by

Be driven hard

Ambition charged

But then I’d miss the best of life

While dealing with the anxious strife

No time to stop and stare they say

Is not, for life a good way.

Try not to stress

Though I confess

I walk on sometimes

And miss sunshines.

Appointment

Posted on March 8, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Appointment, Illness, Life, results, Scared, Shaking, Stress, Thinking, Time, Worry5 Comments

Eek, I now have an appointment to see what’s wrong with me and I’m scared. I don’t know what to expect or what treatment I’m going to be offered. My world has been spinning now for a couple of years, so I guess resolving it is a good idea, but my anxiety levels are skyrocketing.

Trying to say calm, repeating the word calm in my mind, trying to relax, stomach is churning though. My shaking has suddenly got worse, I feel like I’m a twisting pretzel or Staffordshire knot, I don’t know how to slacken the pressure.

Standing on the edge of a precipice wondering if I will fall or fly. I think this is just going to be a talk about results, but I really am not sure if I can cope.

Green gone!

Posted on December 12, 2023December 12, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Argument, Boundary, callous, Inconsiderate, Life, Nature, Polite, Sad, Stress, Uncaring2 Comments

My neighbours are fencing off the alleyway which is good because it will stop people getting in through the hedge, but they bought a digger in and grubbed up even more of the hedge. It’s near where my hubby wanted his ashes scattering. I couldn’t argue, I just stayed polite, the builder didn’t care or understand. But when things are sorted I will plant the spikiest holly and pyrocantha hedge that I can!

The builder said “your hedge is over the boundary line” I replied “this was my hedge for over twenty years, you are doing work for someone who literally just bought it”, he seemed to vaguely understand. I just hope he didn’t dig up any hedgehog nests!

And…. Breathe

Posted on November 28, 2023November 28, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bench, breathe, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2133, Leaves, musac in shops, peeves, Rain, Seat, Stress, TV adverts, wooden2 Comments

Name your top three pet peeves.

MY THREE PET PEEVES….

TV adverts

Musac (especially Christmas musac) in stores in July….

Stressful situations at home (that don’t have to be)

So I wrote this poem:

Take a seat

Take a seat

Brush off the leaves

Wipe away the rain

Sit down and breathe….

Plain or Plane tree?

Posted on June 10, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged crispy, false autumn, Heat, Hot, Plain or Plane, Rain, Stress, Sunshine, Trees, Weather2 Comments

Shade from trees is wonderful in this hot and humid weather. We walked along under them and they shaded out the sun’s heat. The trouble is the leaves have started to fall…. It’s only June but I think the heat stress and lack of water isn’t helping. As I looked up into the tree canopy I could see some of the leaves were curled up and crispy…. Please let it rain….

Tight shoulders

Posted on September 26, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Aching, Drawing, Life, Neck, Pain, Relief, Shoulders, Stress, Tired2 Comments

I had an ache in my shoulders this morning and it’s got worse as the day has gone on. One side is always aching, but today the other side is hurting too, and my neck is very sore. I don’t know if I’m ill, or tense, or if it’s caused by anxiety. The drawing was done a few years ago in photoshop.

I can’t talk

Posted on September 23, 2022September 23, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged coping, Death, Hidden, Home, Life, no energy, Sadness, strategy, Stress, StruggleLeave a comment

There’s people I need to speak to, but as the days go on I get less likely to reach out. Its like I’m encapsulating myself against the whole world. Retreating into myself, hiding away? So nothing else can hurt me. Keeping busy where I have to, but really all I want is to put my head under the covers and escape from the world. Self protection, I hope it’s not selfishness. I don’t know if I will feel better soon. Am I being lazy? No, definitely not. Just torn apart.

Nerves

Posted on April 22, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Anxiety, Art, Author, College, Design, final major project, Illustration, Insomnia, Life, Nerves, Stress, Worries8 Comments

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