Spot on and very true Fran. I have only been doing the deep breathing for a week but the difference is amazing. Even my husband said I'm calmer, lol. Jane
I am so looking forward to go home on Sunday!! I organised as much as I could with Mum’s care home. She hates every minute of my interfering but she is past realising the consequences of her self-medicating.
It is so hot here certainly not a place for the elderly. Mum got dehydrated, doesn’t eat her supplements, has nausea and feeds herself with Rennies!
You know they think they can move from Paris to the seaside in their 70s then get stuck in a place where they have no family taking them out on Sundays, senior friends passing away, loneliness and depression, she can’t drive anymore, she can’t even go to town if not in a taxi, she has a deambulator but the town is all uphill..
I have run out of suggestions, she is here to stay at 90 you imagine she doesn’t want to move but I have been in that hotel a month and it is time for me to go home to Bea and Aria.
Anyway it has drained me physically, swallowed my 17 days antibiotics so repeating my mantras convincingly and seeing the doctor on Tuesday for more meds, scans etc..
2 more matches to go then we’ll have to start reading again 😃 any good programmes on telly??
We’ll find some, Fran 🖥 I’ve just started watching a good drama serial on bbc1 called ‘Keeping Faith’....I think it will see me through!
You’ve done as much as you can for now to help your Mum- you’re a good daughter - but we can only do so much, we also have our own lives to lead and our own health to watch. You need to be there for Bea too....we are the sandwiched generation at the moment....maybe eventually we’ll be the top slice 🥪!! Though I’m not looking forward to that bit myself....perhaps we should see ourselves as the cream 🍰 in the middle of the cake!! Yum!
I hope getting home on Sunday helps you to feel better for settling back into your own routine. The visit to the doctor on Tuesday sounds timely too.
I have been watching a dutch series tonight Flight sthg on Channel 4, awful acting..
Yes I know what you say is right and rational but as my physio (which is also her physio) said I think you will have to come back and forth from now on.. I had that feeling too.
Now you’ve given me that lead, I’ve found it called a briar rose, another way of saying wild rose. Thanks, I think it’s perfectly beautiful, Fran....though églantine is a lovely name too xx
It s a small, bushy evergreen shrub with narrow, dull green leaves. Flowers to 8cm in width, petals purplish-pink with large deep red blotch at the base. Flowers very delicate almost papery.
That's a terrific mantra and I just may use it in my meditation today. Acceptance of our limitations because of illness (although never enough to hold us back,just a different approach etc) and knowing our body is key. You have it girl !
I started with the U tube one, actually it was on grief. Very moving health imagery and there are some affirmations on depression. The other excerpts are very short but if you gg her name you will get the links.
Haha..Well I inhale and inflate my tummy slowly then my lungs then exhale by blowing out slowly with pursed lips tucking my tummy in. Start with 2 or 3 times. Never force it. Never hold your breath and put pressure on your lungs.
You can do it propped up with cushions on your bed, a cushion under your knees to relax your legs. Arms relaxed by your side. Close your eyes..
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nice sentiments though.
Aspergillosis and Hyperinflated lungs. 
Things are looking up…pulmonary rehabilitation course
Trouble with inhalers 
Transferred to Respiratory unit & holed up there 
