What are you up to today if you have a chronic illness Thread 8.. plodding on gently...

[MewithME]

Linky to last thread 🧵 https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5506529-what-are-you-up-to-today-if-you-have-a-chronic-illness-thread-7

Let's be good and use those last posts up first. Nice to be tidy here if not in my house! 😉

Glad it went well @TeaAndStrumpets

Chill day today, possibly featuring a jigsaw

Do you have any tips for recovery? My mother is having the same surgery on Monday.

Luckily a very highly anticipated (and long!) audiobook is coming out on tuesday so she'll have a good distraction.

Sitting in the garden in the sunshine with a cuppa ☕

Feeling a little better today. I had a good nap yesterday afternoon and then an early night. And I gave myself a good talking to about compassion 😆

This morning I have planted out the last of my onion sets, sown some more lettuce and radishes, potted on cucumbers, coriander, ornamental carrots, ox eye daisies and calendula, and pulled the dead leaves out of my bulb pots. I'll get DH to move them later 🌱

I am now having a rest and have no plans for the rest of the day other than decanting some elderflower cordial I started yesterday with flowers from the allotment. Mostly I will be on my lounger in the sun ☀️

Have a restful Saturday all. Glad to hear you are home and recovering after your op @TeaAndStrumpets 💕

Wishing you an easy recovery @TeaAndStrumpets

Nice to hear about everyone's gardens. My lettuce and rocket are doing really well, and I've got radishes, chard and spinach sprouting in containers.

Not the best sleep last night - been watching Number One Fan about a TV presenter being stalked and it infiltrated my dreams so those were quite stressful, woke up with my heart racing!

Not much planned today. I've been as far as the local shops for a few bits and am now home on the sofa for the afternoon.

Am enjoyed the shower seat - it actually feels quite luxurious to sit down!

Ooh speaking of gardens, my lettuce and spring onion is doing fantastically, as new my nasturtiums! I have one flower! I bought some chives and strawberries from the garden centre the other day so they'll be going permanently outside once it gets a bit warmer. It's meant to be cold tonight

Still want to plant some rocket, chard and lettuce seeds. Im also regrowing some leeks from the stubs. Everything is in pots. Not brave enough to try pot carrots or potatoes yet.

I love my garden so much

Went out this morning to pick up my new food processor. Now resting with some knitting. Hoping to do a bit of garden maintenance this afternoon if I have the energy.

I had my awful neck pain yesterday so I'm trying to be super gentle so as to not trigger it again. I feel like I have to treat my body like an unpredictable wild animal or something. One wrong move and I'm laid up for 3 days.

Yes there are lots of practical tips. Make sure things like crockery and saucepans aren't on a low shelf because she should not hang her head forward at first. The incisions are self healing so you need to be careful not to raise the pressure in the eye for a week or so. No lifting for the same reason. I got some stick-on eye shields from Amazon for in the shower. I got some sterile non woven swabs and little vials of saline for dabbing round my eye (no pressing) but tbh it didn't need much cleaning so I just never touched it.

I think the best thing is lots of audiobooks! I'm sure she will be very happy, it really is miraculous.

Half a stone in a week! That's a lot. Hope you are managing to eat a bit.

I'm the other way. I just keep getting bigger.

Cheers! 🥂☀️

Jealous of everyone's gardens. We inherited a low maintenance astro turf concrete garden. We haven't changed it as it works quite well with the kids playing out there all year round
However I hate it, so far removed from gardens DH and I had previously. I miss going away for a weekend with baby courgettes and coming back to marrows haha! Last autumn when I was going through tests for cancer I planted a load of bulbs out the front. They worked so well this spring and was lovely however I am missing the colour now that they've all died back. We do have a thing called a veg pod which has DS's strawberries in it and some leeks I think my husband said he'd planted. Apart from that no longer grow very much.

My neighbour died today. She was ill and elderly and we were not friends but I spoke to her fairly regularly and I am very sad to see what the family have been going through as she was dying. It's raked up a lot of stuff from when my Dad was dying.

My friend popped on so that has been nice but exh is still being a nob so it's been a bit of an emotional/stressful few days. Not good for me.

Glad you have been enjoying your gardens. Mine is becoming a jungle again. Wildlife likes it though. I shall try and get someone in soon hopefully.

Going to get an early night. Started watching Apex but it's not a good choice. Top much adrenaline 🙈

Don't watch Apex. It's nasty. Thought it was just a survival kind of cat and mouse thing but it's grim.

Why is there so much vile stuff on TV? Violence as entertainment, what does it say about our society? It is really desensitising. I love a complex thriller but get put off by torture scenes etc.

There is a new series coming up from the writer of The Gold which looks good, sorry can't recall but has Steve Coogan in I think.

Lovely day out there, got my shades on in the sunniest rooms indoors! I'm coming up to 48 hours from my op and starting to get the dreaded PEM, so today I'm chilling with some Audiobooks.

Hope everyone has a lovely day!

Sorry to hear about your neighbour and how it’s dredged up memories for you @MewithME

Maybe you can just have a very relaxing day today, just not doing anything. At least it’s sunny but quite chilly

We're off to B&Q this morning to pick up the paint for DS's old room 🔵

I have some prep to do for work this afternoon, as in a bizarre series of events I have been (very) temporarily promoted! It's only for 2 weeks but I'm quite excited to do it. It shouldn't hopefully have too much of an impact on me as it's not really that much different to what I was already doing. Just more paperwork and cash! We'll see 😬

Sun has disappeared this morning and it's cool and breezy here. Soup for tea later then an early night 🥱

Have a peaceful day all 💕

Morning all. Chilly and grey here.

Didn't sleep too well. I feel really stressed and anxious and I'm not even too sure what it is. Wonder if menopause is kicking me too. Just too much going on and I can't seem to switch off and relax mentally.

I had a big cry last night...was like a damn breaking..I was wired at bed time and when I sort of admitted to myself that actually I think I needed to cry it came out a bit. I've mentioned it before but I think I just keep everything in all the time and then sometimes I realise I'm holding it all.

Thanks @JewelleryCat x

@TeaAndStrumpets absolutely...it was really horrible. The new Steven Coogan thing is on Netflix. I just remember that. I might try and distract myself with it later.

@Swanhilde more cash sounds good but hope it isn't too much. Take it steady!

I don't know what time DS is back. I've got more stress with exh being his usual manipulative self, so I've that to navigate and unpack with DS when he's home. I think that's a big part of my stress and anxiety too. It's really pushed down buttons and raked up some of the abuse I used to deal with.

I never really fully get over it. I think I am and then it gets brought up.

Anyway, maybe I'll try and meditate or something. It's awful being ill. I used to go for a big walk. That was my way of feeling better. I miss those days. Me and my dog.

Oops sorry..that's was long. I've been on my own too much 🙈

Morning all.
Sunny here although a chilly night. Quiet day ahead as far as I am aware.

@TeaAndStrumpets I watched the first episode of the Steve Coogan show last night. It was rather good.

Quiet day today.

Great thanks, that's going on my list. No TV for me for about a month until I get new glasses, so I've got a lot to catch up on!

Hello! I’m shivering in bed after an early (beautiful) dog walk. I’m going to get up now and have a shower though.

I have fitted a new toilet seat. Was a nightmare getting the old one off. I am now shaking from the physical effort but feel glad it's done. I've achieved something today. Rest now.

@MewithME Well done. I remember doing mine a year or so ago and its so awkward and very fine motor heavy. Especially hard if you get POTs like symptoms. One of the worst positions to be in.

Is the Steve Coogan show called Legends? I don't watch much TV but now and again like to have something to throw on. I started watching Gone on ITV. Its ok.

Slow day here today. Planning a very short dog walk later. Going to cook sausage and mash for dinner and maybe even a easy dessert/cake. That may be a bit ambitious though. Hope you have all had a lovely weekend.

Or if not a lovely weekend, an OK or manageable one.

@Tiredandwired2 yes bit POTsy so not great. Legends...that's right. Going to watch it in bed now. Heat pad on. I'm feeling cold. I need proper rest now.

DS is home and happy. Feels better.

Well done on the toilet seat @MewithME

I've attempted orchestra rehearsal again today and didn't manage as long as last time. Weird because I was feeling better beforehand but I think it was partly the heat in the place. Started with the trembly feeling that lots of you know well and couldn't get it to settle - you know when you feel like you just need to get out of a situation or you're going to stop functioning. So am in a taxi home and will be heading to bed.

Welcome! The weather is really hot and cold at the moment. It's so nice out but I've got a thick shawl over my cardi, plus my plug in hot water bottle. Too fatigued to get warm.

@MewithME congratulations on the toilet seat! I had one I could never work out so used to take ages cleaning round the hinges. (Unused en suite so only if we had visitors ie once in a blue moon ) I got DH to clean it once and he somehow just unclipped it. I felt such a fool. Our main one has bolts which is obvious but you have to be a contortionist as you say.

Edited for wrong emoji due to hazy eye! Given up now.