Aria hibernating

I feel like hibernating tooooo xx

Fran

[sassy59]

Clever Aria. Xxx 😘

[Hidden in reply to sassy59]

Funny little cat 🐈 xxx

[Carnival567]

Sensible cat!

[Yatzy]

Clever cat! Yes, hibernating comes in very handy sometimes. I hibernate quite often! If I go out with friends or for meals, I very often develop a cold/virus days later. So staying home has its attractions. I think I may have another cold starting now in fact...fourth since early September...I ate out on Friday, with a friend I haven’t seen for years. I know the likely outcome, so if it looks like a certainty, I shall be onto the dreaded prednisone asap, in the hope of getting well for Christmas, although in my heart of hearts I know that it would be at least a fortnight of trouble. Fingers crossed 🤞🤞

Thank you for all the advice on starting and timing meditation, Fran. You do look after us all! I’ll certainly come back to it once the Christmas cards and letters are written. Excuses again! I feel quite motivated at the moment, so watch this space.....

Sleep time now 😴 Hope tomorrow is good for us all,

Penny xx

[Hidden in reply to Yatzy]

Hi Penny

Ahhhh sorry you are getting yet another cold, it’s not the others it’s us with our low immune systems 😔

mind you when I was teaching children with runny noses I always ended with my nose running..

So Fran says 😉

Have you had all your jabs..

Are you taking all you vitamins and minerals..

Do you have the right inhalers which will protect you..One consultant told me about having the right preventer to keep away coughs and colds..took me years to find a combination of the 4 I have 😃

It has made a big difference..

Being on a small dose of pred is making a big difference rather than having up to 10 days of high intake several times a year..

Well I won’t lecture you on healthy eating and exercising at this time of year 🧚‍♀️

I have my « Protect » tea (Qi Cha) I drink a pot in the morning, some Chinese combination of white, green teas..I had to get used to it but with a spoonful of honey it helps..

Now it’s out thyme/rosemary tea 3 times a day with honey..Take care Penny dear xx

Fran

[Yatzy in reply to Hidden]

Hi Fran

Thanks for caring. You’re always so helpful. I’m hoping now that my ‘cold’ was in fact due to me lighting our first open fire since last Christmas. We’ve given up on it all year due to having two of us with breathing problems in the house, but, armed with a new super dyson air purifier, thought we might make the family cheerful over Christmas....so we had a practice run! Not sure whether it will appear again during the festivities now - my husband quite keen, as it’s so warm, cosy and relaxing, and the family love it. If used it will be rationed severely! Asthma ruling our lives again!

I looked into your tips on strengthening immunity....very helpful. Decided my big deficit Is regular exercise. Occasional snow shovelling apart, I do too little if I’m honest. New year’s resolution coming up! I’m taking extra vitamins and minerals but my diet is hampered by the fact that I’m sensitive to salicylates, which appear in perfumes, aspirin/Ibuprofen but also in foods. I have copious lists and charts to help me track intake but many fruits and herbs have to be limited. In addition, as I’ve grown older I have a digestive problem with sugar - sucrose, glucose and fructose. Fortunately for my bones, lactose goes down fine. My main hot drink each day is a cocoa (Green & Blacks only one that works) made with milk, plus an occasional latte. I can no longer drink any tea at all - my old habits of black Earl Grey and herb tea have had to stop. My asthma benefits hugely, and the new habits have settled in but I envy you your relaxing herbal teas!

Sorry for the long post. Your thoughts on our immune systems have really made me think and research, so thanks for that.

Btw I was a teacher too, amongst the many runny noses! I seemed to survive better in those days I have late onset asthma, as my father did before me. Hoping you and your dear Dad are coping with his current health problems, as well as your own. I had to smile when I read about your late night/in the night phone call. I’m getting them too when problems arise. My very nearly blind mother, aged nearly 98, lives alone in a sheltered apartment, with four visits from carers each day. She can do little for herself these days. Unfortunately I’m twenty miles away, but have set up a memory button on her phone to call me....and it’s nice and easy to press! Ha! The latest late call was to say the late carer had forgotten to switch her mini-tree lights off....could I call her back...in the dark and cold?? This was much better that a health problem I know but still a decision to be made. I managed to contact a very kind neighbour, who has a key and could do the necessary, to save my Mum losing sleep, worrying about her lights! Not usually so easy though. Very well done for sorting things without going out again yourself...needs to be done to preserve your own strength, but can be very hard, I know.

Hoping you have a day that holds some small treats at least. Thanks for reading, if you’re still with me!

💕Penny xx

[breatheeasy1]

Hi Fran, what a sensible cat! I'm planning a 'Family Hibernation' the minute the school's break up! Duvets, Donuts and Disney... I need a break! Anyway hope you and your Dad are doing ok...x

[Hidden in reply to breatheeasy1]

Hi Anne!! Yes!!! I got my bumper issue of the Radio Times through the post!! Cheered me right up!!🎊🎅🏻🧚‍♀️

With Dad it’s so hard..he phoned me last night in a total state of panic: Can you come over immediately, nobody is taking care of me, I’m alone in my room..

I tell you Anne I had to gather myself together and say Im ready for bed Dad I can’t go up the mountain right now..I will phone the nurse for you..I got through,they got the on call doctor to come and give him a sedative..all that because they tried to put an IV in several times, he said 5 they said 2..anyway they failed on top of it.

They are going to try again this morning so I’m going up there..

So I watched tv, birds of feathers actually and I thought 😮they have aged and if they have aged so have I 😂 still I love all those Christmas favourites!!!🎊 Bea looks at me 😳😳like my Mum is getting on and shuts her bedroom door 🚪!!!!!

All my love to you and the girls..💕

Fran

[breatheeasy1 in reply to Hidden]

Oh honey it's so worrying when you get calls like that...all you want to do is race there but well done for stopping yourself and phoning the nurse. It doesn't mean you don't love him, just that you have to remember yourself occasionally too. We lost a family member to Alzheimer's in August (well it was the complications of course) and that was a long and tough old road...so I do understand.

And yes aren't daughters wonderful?! Mine keeps offering me make up advice or to cut me a fringe to hide all those lines! Cheeky monkey. We love them though eh.

I hope it goes well seeing your dad today anyway. Take it steady up that mountain...do you still have snow? And look after yourself!! 😍

[Hidden in reply to breatheeasy1]

Thank you Ann so you understand..🤗🤗 I think the pneumonia and heart problems are complications so I understood..but he seems to be improving, they lowered his oxygen from 3 liters to 1.5.

Haha, daughters are good reminders of who we are or were 😃

I can’t drive anyway I have to rely on help. I have this lady, care assistant, who takes me to all my medical appointments, she is taking me up and down at the moment because Bea is not always up to it.

Oh the snow is not budging but looks wet..dark looking clouds so I can see..

Littles 🐾 🐾 across show me Aria had a taste of it this morning..

Have a lovely day xx

Fran

[breatheeasy1 in reply to Hidden]

Oh good im glad you have support 😊, and I'm glad he's improving 👍. Poor Aria must be fed uo with this snow by now eh! Have a good day today and keep warm xxx

[Kitten-whiskers]

Bless her, very sensible : >