Zombie's Journey - A Wedding, A Final Christmas and Planning for a Wake

[IamtheZombie]

Previous thread is HERE

ZombieLad gets married today. Hats on and champagne at the ready!

A week today he and ZombieLass arrive to spend Christmas with me. It will be the Best. Christmas. Ever.

There have been no miracles so my remaining days keep ticking away. Life is for living. Death is not to be feared. Wakes are for celebrating.

Please join me.

I hope you have a lovely Christmas with Zkids

Morning! Chill out time.

Can't get back to bloody sleep Hope you're sleeping ok now, Zombie! Two more sleeps until they arrive!!

Oooh, a count down!

52 hours now?
How exciting!
I'm dancing with you/for you, Z

Me too! How's ZLass?

Morning phalanx. Counting down to ZAdvent!! Two more sleeps.

Speaking of which......Here's one for you. I promise I'm not completely mad. I've not been sleeping well recently & last night took Nytol as well as 2 x 30mg cocodamol and my normal dizzy meds. I did get some sleep. There were, however, some very unusual dreams.

I dreamt I was in a production of The Sound Of Music. Dressed in kabuki / burlesque mash-up make up. Weird enough. But then I sang THIS - to the tune of the lonely goatherd:

High on a hill sits a lovely Zombie (yodel bit)
Wearing a dress that's from Ambercrombie (yodel bit)
It has got squares and it's got some rhombi (to rhyme with Zombie - I know. Tortured. Yodel bit)
She's got a cake that she's going to flambé

At this point I woke up & scribbled it down - Strictly pad is still next to bed.

I've lost the plot, haven't I?

Possibly, but I'm going to learn those lyrics!

We also need a puppet of Zombie

You know ikl I'll never be able to watch The Sound of Music again now!

I know this isn't exactly high on the list of priorities Zombie, but you can get stickers for your front door asking delivery people to wait as it may take slightly longer for the door to be answered. It's sooooo frustrating to make the effort to the door and see them fucking off down the road

I have found shopping online a good distraction for being bed ridden so I get LOTS of parcels

Downstairs bed sounds like an excellent plan. I have an electric one (upstairs tho) and it's been the best thing I ever bought. And we don't pay VAT

I have found, btw, that the best food (for me at least!) with morphine is Haagen Dazs - especially Salted Caramel

ikl at the lonely goatherd (you loon)

Are you going to make us Christmas outfits out of curtains?

I'm just having a rest before panic sets in. Have been ill the last 2 days, struggled down to the school on wobbly legs to print the boarding cards for tomorrow as my bloody printer is broken again.

So haven't done any packing/sorting/cleaning and we leave here at 3am. The cleaning/sorting is partly for me because I hate coming back to the house that time and the dishwasher forgot.

But mainly because when we're not here ArseEx and his girlfriend come (house still joined owned) and I hate it. All my things moved around, candles used up, they go through the fridge and throw out things they deem out of date. Though I have a v good and massive great fridge and am an adult who can do that herself.

Plus the snide comments about the state of the house and garden for the next few pick-ups. This year am also a bit about where they'll sleep. He had his own room here (his old study) until the divorce fight started a few months ago. He wanted me to pay rent on my own house and his lawyer obv told him he couldn't claim I had sole occupancy if he still had a room.

So he turned up unannounced one Saturday with gf in tow and they spent about 6 hrs moving him out and moving FidGirl down from her boxroom. Now I don't know if he'll sleep there or in my room. Fucker. Actually, might get FidBoy1 to text him and say they're welcome to his.

Sorry, am not v festive this morning.

Will cheer myself up with a Glühwein.

Brilliant song ikl
I'd love to go to one of those SOM showings where the audience sing along!

Here's verse two....

High on a hill was the lovely Zombie
Lay ee odl, lay ee odl, lay hee hoo
Counting the hours till her Lad would home be
Lay ee odl, lay ee odl-oo.

He'd travelled far so his Mum he could see
Lay ee odl, lay ee odl, lay hee hoo
Bringing his joy with his sweet lady (ee)
Lay ee odl, lay ee odl-oo.

Laughter and love all around you can see
Lay ee odl, lay ee odl, lay hee hoo
Zombie with her kids, they're her family (ee)
Lay ee odl, lay ee odl-oo.

Love the zombie song

How brill!

Fids can you padlock your bedroom door? Or would that be fuel on the fire?

I second padlocking your bedroom door fids. You can stash stuff you don't want them to touch (like naice candles) in there, too.

I assume that you aren't allowed to changed the house lock? (I know that's the way UK law works, but I still just don't understand it)

ikl and BBB, you are geniuses!

Any way, it's update time.

I've just got off the phone with the Hospice Nurse. Lots of wheels are being put in motion.

Pain relief. It's agreed that when I change my morphine patch tomorrow I will replace one Fentanyl 12 patch with two patches. I am not to skimp on taking as much Oramorph as necessary for breakthrough pain. Monday and yesterday I needed a total of 20 ml (split over several doses). I explained that if I go much above that I won't have enough Oramorph to last through the holidays. She rang my GP and has arranged for a prescription for an additional large bottle. The GP is also doing another prescription for Fentanyl 25 patches. So tomorrow I will put on 2 x 12 patches and then on Sunday I will replace the 2 x 12 patches with 1 x 25 patch. As I will have 7 Fentanyl 12 patches left that also gives further flexibility for increasing the dose down the line if required.

Hospital bed. The hospice nurse will liase with the appropriate people to get me one as soon as possible. I certainly won't get one before Christmas but next week may be possible. She said she was glad I asked for this as so many people won't do as they see it as such a final step towards death. I told her I thought that was a moot point at this stage and it's more important to me that I can be comfortable while having access to the outer world for the time I have left.

Personal Independence Payment. My GP is sending off the appropriate paperwork to get this for me under the Special Rules. She gave me the phone numbers I need to ring to get the application process started.

Blue Badge. She is sending me an application which she will have signed so that this can also be fast tracked and I don't even need to provide a photo.

I think that's all for now.

Good stuff, Zombie.

Good to hear things are getting sorted Z.

Blimey what with ikl and All we'll be in our festive dirndls before we know it.

Can't padlock or even lock the door cos fool that I am, I swapped out the evil-looking door handles for ones I liked but you couldn't then lock the door. As the FidLets were all much younger I was fine with that. Maybe I'll just hide the mattress in the shed

Zombie when my friend put in for PIP for his son under the special rules it was sorted within a fortnight. Although Christmas might delay it a little bit. You might be able to get it backdated it's worth asking.

Your so organised it's inspirational. I can't get myself motivated to wrap or feck all this year.