The Lishman Journal – Day 24

And so another Friday comes along fair and sunny but with a nasty headache and very foggy head.  Very disturbed sleep I seem to remember, but I can’t quite grasp the wisp that would let me into the secret of “why”!  Ah well, no matter, breakfast is calling……………oh no, that’s one of the nurses wanting me to get up. J

It’s been a funny ol’ week.  Had an absolutely brilliant day Wednesday, only 1 seizure during the day and feeling “normal”, no fog to cloud what’s left of my brain or treacle to wade through, no seizures at doors slamming or chairs scrapping across the floor, sirens blaring or other patients rabbiting on until I disappeared into a dissociative one!  So feeling really good Francis and I started chatting before supper and finished 11:30pm, thinking perhaps we’d overdone it a trifle as I certainly felt a tad woolly headed by then, as did he.   I made it out of the room and into the corridor walking with my stick, but the next I remember is giving the floor a hug, thanking it for being so kind as to be there for me when I needed it and wondering who all these people were asking me questions that my brain couldn’t figure out.  Vaguely recollect one of the nurses bringing my wheelchair and me climbing the mountain to get into it, think I got into bed and slept an hour or so, but then woke needing to clean my teeth…………….do so hate the feel of un-cleaned teeth, don’t you?! J

This morning I staggered into the dining room to see Francis, Annie and David (the new guy arrived yesterday), sitting around the table already finished so I slumped down in “my” chair, (the special blue cushioned one with curvy arms that backs onto a wall to catch me when I tip over backwards during a seizureJ) and the lovely Linda (kitchen staff) brings me my revival cup of tea.  Ahhhhhhh bliss, I SOOOOOO need that first cup of tea!!!  The day went on to include Leoni achieving her first ever walk down the corridor (wearing her very fetching Velcro-ed leg brace) YAY LEONI!!!!! (see her video on Fb).  Then my CBT session with my lovely Italian therapist…………..lasted a whole 40 minutes before getting so treacled up I could speak J  Still, an improvement on last week.  Now we just have to find out WHY!!!

Today, Francis went on an away-day to Folkestone.  He told us it was to see his home support worker that will be his liaison once he is discharged from here (coming soon!), but we reckon it really was to visit the fish restaurant on the sea-front for lunch and dinner! J

And now Annie has gone home for the weekend, Leoni was picked up and is driving swiftly toward the Fens and David has gone home after his first day to take his young son to toddler classes tomorrow………………well, so he says, but we saw the glow in his eyes at the thought so are betting it just might be Dad wanting to go play choo choo trains and “ride ‘em cowboy”, (or whatever they do these days). So an emptyish unit this weekend.  Wonder what mischief we can get up to.......................???? J

My visitor has just left………………..brother-in-law keeping a close eye on me and reporting back! J
It's so nice being less than 4 miles from my youngest sister and mother, apparently they, (or maybe my other sister? can't quite remember which) are going to try and visit on Sunday, weather permitting.

And so a cuppa in front of me, supper an hour away and then yet another day over, sleep beckons and a Saturday of ????????  Well, whatever comes tomorrow I’ll enjoy the experiences to come, chats to have, with new and wondrous reads on Facebook.

Be good, be kind but most of all, look after yourselves! XX