I went to my first get-your-lungs-back-in-some-sort-of-shape exercise class today. It's at the Warrington Wolves R L F C Stadium which is massive and leases out parts of the building to the NHS, private functions, businesses etc. I'll be going on Tuesdays and Fridays until Christmas week.

Fridays it's 12 noon until 2 p.m. and I staggered in from the car park, clutching my mobile oxygen cylinder in it's smart little back pack, and sank on to a chair in the waiting area to recover. The thing is ridiculously heavy. I had parked in the designated car-park which said "For the use of NHS at Wolves patients only" but every single bay was a "disabled" one and - I'm not disabled. I resolved that, if I should get...

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Have had the flu for the last week ... wednesday downgraded it to a bad cold .... wednesday i had to go to the docs at 4.30 .... at 4.30 i was in bed!!!! Well thats where i was when i came round!!! Had another fit and my face is a mess. Have carpet burns that run the length of my nose, underneath my nose, under my eye and a big graze and bump on my forehead. I do make a lovely picture!!!! It hurts to smile, spuggie said the pic i sent him made it look like a mugger had got hold of me. At least he cant see my face in real life. Then he would do his nut in!!!

shillelagh

I've been rough. Started last tuesday sneezed a bit ..... but just thought it was a cold coming back after i'd been out friday night and also going out on monday night in and out of the pub for a ciggie ... Anyway wednesday took a pack of tissues in with me to work - and i'd used them all by 2pm!!! Sneezing awful. Goes to sisters after work - it was her hubbys birthday on wednesday - and i took his card and pressie round. He was off work ill - cellulitis - and i just hope i didnt give him this!! Leaves that sisters - and goes round to the other sisters - she said she'd make my tea - and sweet talked my nephew into making me a brew. The crazy dog was there but he was limping he'd bashed his leg jumping off the window and sis had took him...

shillelagh

Dave and Laura, the plumbers, finished the bathroom at 1.30 p.m. today, Saturday. They have done an excellent job and I can't praise them highly enough.

I used to have a champagne bath, sink and loo (leaking for the last 5 months) with dark walnut panelling, vanity unit and loo seat, champagne cabinet and shelving, biscuit-colour tiles half way up the walls and gold coloured taps and fittings. I had dark pink flotex carpet tiles on the floor. When my late husband installed the champagne suite, 27 years ago, it was the latest style. Now it looked, well, dated and dreary.

I now have a white suite, with a shower-bath (with the wide, round bit at the shower end) a power shower and a clear curved screen. There's...

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It's not been the most comfortable of weeks in fact it's been, and still is, decidedly uncomfortable. There's only one bathroom in this house and, since Monday morning, there's been nothing in it except a loo. Washing and toothbrushing has to be in the kitchen sink. Bathing and showering are impossible so it's been a strip-wash with a wet flannel - ye-e-e-e-uch!

Of course, just to make things worse, my body has had to get in on the act. In the early hours of Tuesday morning I woke up shivering under my duvet and no way could I get warm. After 2 miserable, teeth-chattering hours, during which I staggered out of bed to put my dressing gown on and flopped back under the duvet to carry on shivering, the fever broke and I started...

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