Getting up in the morning.

I wake up in the morning

Wondering in a fright

What happened to that fellow

That went to bed last night

My eyes are all blocked up

I can hardly see

I don't know who this fellow is

It surely can't be me

The coughing and the spluttering

The back stuck to the bed

Mouth like in a bird cage

And a bad pain in my head.

I stagger to the bathroom

And when I come back out

I've turn back into myself again

What's all that about??

[Pantani]

I know the feeling Don ,as usual youve hit the nail on the head.👍

[sassy59]

Apart from gooey eyes and coughing you’ve just described me Don. No idea what it’s all about but love your take on life.

Xxxx😂😘💖💕💝❤️

[Hidden in reply to sassy59]

The gooey eye thing is relatively new due to the numerous eye drops I have to put in for gluacoma. They also give me black eyes which cause people to ask what the other fella is like thinking I’ve been in a punch-up. Panda Don xx

[sassy59 in reply to Hidden]

Oh that’s not nice Don. I’m sure the other fella would have come off worse anyway. Lol.

Take care Panda Don. 🐼 xxxx

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

I use eye drops too Don, nose spray and artificial saliva, for Sjogren's (pronounced show grins). Flipping bad enough being poorly, without not being able to spell/pronounce the thing. 😒

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

One of my eye drops is marked 'not to be taken by mouth' and I thought what a stupid thing to say, who would be daft enough to do that as I missed by eye with a drop and it ran down my cheek into my mouth!

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

I do that all the time

[Izb1]

Oh! how we all relate to your rhymes Don, you put it down so well. It does seem to take longer and longer to come round though. I think it must be the winter as I dont feel quite so bad in the summer x

[Hidden in reply to Izb1]

At least there’s no cold lino to have to step out on and ice on the inside of the windows as was normal at one time.

[Izb1 in reply to Hidden]

I remember those days well and the outside loo brrrr

[Oshgosh in reply to Hidden]

And chilblains! Certainly don’t miss those old days

[Hidden in reply to Oshgosh]

Ouch! It hurts to even think of those. Where did they go you don't hear of them now?

[Oshgosh in reply to Hidden]

I think they were rendered obsolete by central heating

[RoadRunner44]

Can't we all relate to that? It could be any one of us I would imagine. Take comfort Don, your little lodger doesn't care what you look like, he loves you just as you are. Cheers, Chrys

[Hidden in reply to RoadRunner44]

Midge is a female, Chrys, and has learnt to stay in bed longer in the winter to give the heating system time to get the bedroom warm. 🙂

[RoadRunner44 in reply to Hidden]

Sensible little girl is Midge! I remember when I was young around 7 years old, bedrooms weren't heated then., and the Winters were bitterly cold. My mother would call me to get up for school. Having to leave that warm bed was criminal. I used to count to 10 to pluck up coursge, then get up quickly, and, run down the stairs into the bathroom to have a quick wee. In the meantime my mother was lighting the coal fire and drawing it with a newspaper. I forget how many times it caught fire with me screaming that the house was going to burn down. Oh such memories Don.

[Hidden in reply to RoadRunner44]

Drawing the fire with newspaper brings back memories. I do miss my open fires, but what an inefficient way of heating that was. Mind you, toast has never tasted the same.

[skischool]

Simple solution Master...........don't get up until the afternoon and the old you will return as before.

Grasshopper...busy in the temple x

[Hidden in reply to skischool]

I’ve lost the art of staying in bed. I didn’t have any trouble when my wife used to bring me my breakfast in bed, to keep me from getting under her feet.😟

[skischool in reply to Hidden]

Breakfast in bed,gosh you were spoiled rotten by Margaret and i bet you can't train Midge to do the same.more likely she brings her breakfast into your bed.

[Hidden in reply to skischool]

No that's true, I got trodden on many times before Margaret made her decision.🙁

[SquirrelsHolt]

Good evening Mr.D and a mighty fine rhyme that was,something we surely all go through as we get older. I have to admit that just yesterday i caught sight of myself in a small mirror and i don't mind telling you, i was not impressed. This womsn looked older than her years(a bit like.my lungs😂) and looked fraill and had lots of worry lines to-boot😂😂😂!!

🐿💕💕

[Hidden in reply to SquirrelsHolt]

I’ve reduced the amount of lighting in my bathroom for that very reason.😉x

[SquirrelsHolt in reply to Hidden]

😂😂😂🐿💕

[Kittykat2]

Think this rhyme and the whole thread is excellent and relates to most of us here .

Brilliant Don 👍💕x

[Hidden]

Thank you Kitty, a bit of light-hearted banter doesn't go amiss as we battle on. 😘

[watergazer]

Lovely one Don x

[Penny326]

Ha ha love that. 😘

[Jason098765]

I take my hat off to you sir you’ve done it again excellent

[JANET127]

I bought me a full spectrum light

It comes on 30 minutes before I rise...

The birds are all chirping in it...It

is very tender on the eyes!

We have 3 glands in the forehead...

They help our brain out a lot! The

Light activates the glands..

Endorphins....They

multiply the lot!

It also plays soothing music

The whole half hour or so

I get up feeling a lot better

Oh

Hell......Let it snow!