Sore fingers!

This week it seems to have been my mission to destroy my hands and fingers! First of all I wound up my friends cat with some wool and ended up getting a nice scratch on the skin in between my fingers which was really tender for a day or two. I don't blame the cat, I was annoying him but rightly so since I'd just had to dispose of a dead magpie he had presented to me as a gift! Poor thing!


Then I trapped my finger in a door, why do you hop up and down when that happens? Does it help somehow?! Then I hit another finger on the corner of a cupboard door, the nail side, this still hurts now. Then to finish it off I somehow scrapped a few lairs of skin off another finger, I don't even recall doing this but I know it bloody hurts when I try to bend my finger! So yes, I'm a walking disaster this week!


Our fridge has broken again! Can't believe it! There I was sat eating my coco pops on Saturday morning and again I realised the milk was warm, disaster! An engineer came out to see it today and apparently when it was fitted (before we moved in) they haven't put any holes in the bottom of the cupboard for ventilation and the compressor has broken which will cost about £300 to fix! So we are just going to get a new fridge freezer and hopefully get rid of the inter grated one and buy a normal free standing one. We went to look at them on Sunday in preparation for the bad news and saw this ace retro one that was quite expensive. Anyway the engineer said they are OK but not that good so sadly we may be sensible and get a normal looking fridge.


I'm feeling alot better this week, I even managed to go food shopping on my own. Now it's getting warmer I don't cough as much outside and can manage to put the bags in the car and take them out easier. The trolley is still hard work to push around since I'm a breathless weakling and trolleys have a mind of their own. However my chest is feeling miles better this week so I managed quite well. I went for a massage on Friday and have felt progressively better since the end of last week, so maybe it has helped, who knows?! To be honest I think massages are overrated, it was OK but I didn't like all the oil, I could hear it squelching and all I could think of was how sticky my skin was going to be when she had finished! I think I need to get a proper massage by a trained sports masseuse as I didn't feel like she pressed on hard enough to loosen up my muscles.


Pete is gym obsessed and going 4-5 times a week in preparation for the Great North Run, making me feel very bad with my twice a week attempts. He also somehow managed to talk me out of getting takeaway curry last night because he wants to be healthy whereas I don't care. There is defiantly a clash sometimes meal wise, I want high calories but I don't want a fat husband!


That's about my week summed up...!

Revenge of the Sputum

Well I'm starting to feel slightly better in myself but I can't really say things have improved chest wise yet. I'm coughing less but when I do cough it's so productive and gloopy that I can't budge it especially since my airways seem to tighten up. I went to the toilets in Wetherspoons today which were upstairs and when I got into the cubicle I coughed so hard I started retching and proceeded to bring up some sputum unexpectedly. Luckily none went on my clothes and I grabbed a tissue before it projected out of my mouth! Not the highlight of my day but never mind!

I also kept waking up last night feeling like I couldn't breathe and taking big gasps on air in. It felt like there was a blanket of sputum over my airways, and when I breathed in it made a really loud wheezing noise and loosened the blanket but then when I tried to cough the sputum up I couldn't! In addition to this my sputum has had tiny dots of blood in it, nothing serious but it's still worth noting. Needless to say there is some freaky stuff going on and I just want to get back to normal please!

Yesterday I went to Scope and got a free mini massage. They arranged for a lady to come and do a taster session and I asked her to focus on my shoulders and back as they are tight from all the coughing. I'm thinking about booking a session as it might help with my posture and help me cough better. Just depends on if I can afford it really! My yoga teacher suggested I get a massage to help relax the tension since I can't go to yoga classes whilst on my IVs, so maybe I will!

Today I was supposed to meet my new mentee for an introduction session which is why I was at Wetherspoons, but she didn't turn up. So instead me and the other lady from Scope had some lunch so it wasn't a wasted journey! I had a curry that tasted more like a chinese, very strange!

Other than that I've been reading my book and learning quite abit about the first world war in the process and doing my knitting! I'm ashamed to say I haven't taken Alfie out for a walk yet this week, but at the end of the day that's why we got a small dog that doesn't need much exercise. A good run around the garden after the birds keeps him fit and I have promised him I will take him for a walk tomorrow! That's about my week so far! See you later folks!