Unending joy
Oct. 24th, 2021 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arkessianApologies: this isn't the interesting post I promised!
Important stuff first: Little Madam continues to do well. And I've given up on choosing curtain fabric -- it will have to wait until fashions change. (I fear fashions will never change to suit my tastes, alas, and I will have to settle for something anodyne rather than bold and eclectic).
In other news: I have managed a fair bit of activity in the last few days, without adverse effects (but see later) which is reassuring with regard to my heart failure.
On Friday, a trip to Birmingham to have the post-implantation review of my ICD -- everything is fine, and they will transfer me to the local hospital for ongoing monitoring (15 miles versus 75 miles is much easier to organise transport for). Followed by a trip to the opticians to help D choose some new glasses frames (left to his own devices, he would pick the least flattering option). We also braved a favourite place for a coffee -- alas, it has recently changed hands and gone downhill... so we probably won't go back. However, Cirencester and area does not lack coffee shops, so all is not lost.
The following day, a visit to a couple of places in Swindon to explore options to replace the guest room bed -- if my sister is ever called upon to cat sit for a prolonged period, she deserves a comfortable bed. I now have a plan which I'm happy with and can be executed without further retail excursions.
Which is just as well. Today I became part of the pingdemic: my phone informed me that I'd encountered somebody on Friday (for more than 15 minutes) who was Covid positive. That was the the day I went to Birmingham. However, D hasn't been pinged; we were together all day except at the hospital -- where he stayed outside the building with a hot coffee and a book.
I'm not required to self-isolate but don't feel comfortable not doing so -- D is on his travels again and is triple-vaccinated, so I'm only slightly worried about him -- but I have done a lateral flow test (negative) and ordered an at-home PCR test. Until I know that's negative, it's drawbridge up again. (D is also testing daily just in case).
To be honest, it's probably drawbridge up for a while -- I'll be eligible for a booster jab in a week's time (if I can have one with a history of anaphylaxis -- still to be determined) but another winter with minimal physical contact with the outside world makes sense to me -- the efficacy of this year's flu jab is questionable given the lack of data that went into formulating it, and a couple of days out in the wild has reminded me of the total lack of common sense/social consideration of large chunks of the local population.
Important stuff first: Little Madam continues to do well. And I've given up on choosing curtain fabric -- it will have to wait until fashions change. (I fear fashions will never change to suit my tastes, alas, and I will have to settle for something anodyne rather than bold and eclectic).
In other news: I have managed a fair bit of activity in the last few days, without adverse effects (but see later) which is reassuring with regard to my heart failure.
On Friday, a trip to Birmingham to have the post-implantation review of my ICD -- everything is fine, and they will transfer me to the local hospital for ongoing monitoring (15 miles versus 75 miles is much easier to organise transport for). Followed by a trip to the opticians to help D choose some new glasses frames (left to his own devices, he would pick the least flattering option). We also braved a favourite place for a coffee -- alas, it has recently changed hands and gone downhill... so we probably won't go back. However, Cirencester and area does not lack coffee shops, so all is not lost.
The following day, a visit to a couple of places in Swindon to explore options to replace the guest room bed -- if my sister is ever called upon to cat sit for a prolonged period, she deserves a comfortable bed. I now have a plan which I'm happy with and can be executed without further retail excursions.
Which is just as well. Today I became part of the pingdemic: my phone informed me that I'd encountered somebody on Friday (for more than 15 minutes) who was Covid positive. That was the the day I went to Birmingham. However, D hasn't been pinged; we were together all day except at the hospital -- where he stayed outside the building with a hot coffee and a book.
I'm not required to self-isolate but don't feel comfortable not doing so -- D is on his travels again and is triple-vaccinated, so I'm only slightly worried about him -- but I have done a lateral flow test (negative) and ordered an at-home PCR test. Until I know that's negative, it's drawbridge up again. (D is also testing daily just in case).
To be honest, it's probably drawbridge up for a while -- I'll be eligible for a booster jab in a week's time (if I can have one with a history of anaphylaxis -- still to be determined) but another winter with minimal physical contact with the outside world makes sense to me -- the efficacy of this year's flu jab is questionable given the lack of data that went into formulating it, and a couple of days out in the wild has reminded me of the total lack of common sense/social consideration of large chunks of the local population.
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Date: 2021-10-25 01:46 pm (UTC)