Up and down

Yesterday turned into one of those up and down days.

As you will know from yesterday’s blog, it started on a high with our French holiday safely booked at last. By 10am, my home help arrived. She had a request. Could she leave early as she had an emergency doctor’s appointment at 11.50am?  She usually stays until noon. Needless to say I could hardly refuse. She went on to tell me she’d found a lump. She apparently had cervical cancer many years ago & dreaded this was its return. I tried to reassure it probably wasn’t anything serious but she was doing to right thing in going fairly promptly to get it check out. From the symptoms she described I suspect it isn’t, but then I’m not a doctor.

She’s a single parent with two teenage daughters. The previous evening she had had a difficult talk with the elder daughter (about 15-6) as to why she was going to see the doctor. Since then I’ve been worrying. There’s nothing I can do except wait, hope & pray. I don’t expect I will hear if it went well until next week.

A bit later the men came to have yet another look at our leaky back door. They’ve now concluded that the problem lies with the low wheelchair threshold. As we have discovered the water now seems to be coming in under the white PVC sill on the inside of the threshold, they suspect something hasn’t been sealed properly in the manufacture of the threshold. Unfortunately to sort that out, the door & the whole frame will have to be taken out. That means yet another visit next month to do that.

After they had gone we headed off to Morrisons & the food shop. Unfortunately the Fox managed to pick one of those trolleys with wonky wheels. By the time we had finished the shop his hips were aching badly. Each time he was jerked by the wheels going one way while he went another, yanking them badly. We retreated to the golf club where we spent a pleasant hour chatting to the barmaid & looking out across the greenness of the course. It’s always good to watch the birds at the feeders – mainly sparrows yesterday – and the ducks waddling across the course. Sometimes the course is the hunting ground for a flock of oystercatchers or crows, but there didn’t seem many around yesterday. Still we left relaxed & refreshed for a quick trip to the library, then home to a prawn curry.