Missing friends!

Hi All,

Saturday was a weird day for several reasons, firstly, It was the memorial service for a friend who died a few months ago. The memorial was a long way away from where I live and I havent been well for a week or so, so couldnt make it which was upsetting. I miss Emma's e-mails via AUK and her advise, her lust for life and her enthusiasm and I miss reading her blog with the trade mark - 'toodlepip' as a sign off each time! It was sad I couldnt go to her thanksgiving service.

So I lit my candle and quietly remembered Emma from my house on saturday at 2pm (the same time as the service started).

Saturday was also weird in that i had been reletively OK all week but all of a sudden in the small hours started to feel really nauseous and shaky etc. Turns out I had aminophylline toxicity!! (not at all pleasnt and definatly not an experience I care to repeat!)

I did feel rather unwell all of saturday and most of sunday but by late evening on sunday was much, much better!!

Yesterday was fairly busy, I went to my GP and she went through what had happened over the weekend etc and gave me some different antibiotics for my infection as the ones I had been put on previously caused the toxicity!!! We chatted about how things were going and I got a bit upset about things (again), I'm really frustrated at the moment with not being able to do things I used to take for granted, that and my appeal hearing at work this thursday and various other things stressing me out just made me really weepy!! I then came home to my friend who was doing some cleaning for me in preperation to do some painting in my house on saturday!! My house is the house that jack built! Everything that can go wrong invariably always does go wrong and so after several DIY disasters a few years ago - nothing has been done in the house! My room needs doing as it is the same as when I moved in almost 5 years ago and I hated it then!!! Sooooo, the time has come! It is getting sorted! As the room was cleaned and hoovered etc, the TV digital box was moved and I lost all my TV channels.... This ended with a trip to the local Tesco for a new TV/freeview combo, which as my aerial snapped in the high winds last year still didnt work so today I have had the aerial blokes round to put up a brand new digital ready aerial!! (expensive!!!)

I have also today had the varification officer from council tax benefit round to check some paperwork so that they may finally reduce my payments for council tax as at the moment most of my benefit is going on paying for these bills!!

Finally now the rest of the day is my own, Im shattered so I am going to curl up in front of my new TV and watch some TV that actually has a fab signal!! :-)

Hope you are all well. Talk soon peeps!
Lotsa Lv
Rattles Xxxx