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Messymascot's faith in humanity and ginger safe haven

Morning all. Thank you for keeping us all updated with Kay’s progress @peteblue , I do so hope she will be back with you soon, filling that empty chair. The carers we were offered for my Mum cost over £25 an hour per carer (she needed two), that was just to get her out of bed and dressed in the morning and undressed at night, nothing more. That was over six years ago though and things may be different now.
Harry will be here soon for breakfast, full of the joys…. He had his mock GCSE art exam yesterday all day and again today. He’s always struggled with school life and I’m so hoping he can do well it would boost his confidence no end but I’ve told him as long as he’s done his best he can do no more.
Have a good day, all💙
Best of luck to Harry with his art. He has already learned the most important lesson though in that you can only do your best.
 
Anyway, back about an hour ago, Kay has been put in a normal ward, albeit in a private room and with a nurse stationed permanently by her door. She looks so much better than of Sunday. We got her up and walked her along a corridor and back to her room to get her legs working again. The nurses are still struggling with the fact she cannot understand what they are saying and is incapable of responding even if she did. I explained in detail the incontinence pants regime I utilise and after many wet beds and changes of clothes they are learning, albeit slowly. I fed her again today, her appetite still very strong and she looks more like she did before the virus. They are still keeping her in until the antibiotics have done their job and for that I am thankful. I was asked again about support at home and they will speak with me tomorrow, no doubt this will involve me paying loads of money but at least I will know what it’s being spent on and helping my wife.

Anyway, I’m still looking at an empty chair and it’s killing me tbh, when Im at the hospital with Kay I’m fine, but at home, with an empty chair and a half empty bed I’m in tears. I’m not a weak person, I’m mentally strong, I can deal with almost all issues, but I can’t live without Kay………
The tears are good Pete as they will release a little bit of the pressure inside. Take all the help offered moving forward and you just keep on being there for Kay. She knows everything you are doing mate and she would tell you if she only could.
 
Morning all. Thank you for keeping us all updated with Kay’s progress @peteblue , I do so hope she will be back with you soon, filling that empty chair. The carers we were offered for my Mum cost over £25 an hour per carer (she needed two), that was just to get her out of bed and dressed in the morning and undressed at night, nothing more. That was over six years ago though and things may be different now.
Harry will be here soon for breakfast, full of the joys…. He had his mock GCSE art exam yesterday all day and again today. He’s always struggled with school life and I’m so hoping he can do well it would boost his confidence no end but I’ve told him as long as he’s done his best he can do no more.
Have a good day, all💙
It can be a bit of a lottery with care costs, a few years ago we were receiving help from NHS carers for my father in law free, this may have stopped now. My sister in a Manchester care home pays over £1000 per week and her savings are dwindling year upon year 😕
 
Evening guys. Busy day today (and tomorrow). I'm having the neighbours around for a curry tomorrow night so I've been busy slaving over the stove all afternoon. I'm doing an Anj inspired Zanzibar chicken curry, a mushroom bhaji side dish, some tamarind fries and an authentic Indian rice dish. Unlike Blue, I bought the naan breads at the supermarket, but everything else is prepared from scratch. Chicken and mushroom dishes are done and, if I say so myself, are stunningly good. I'm trying to replicate the tamarind fries from my favourite restaurant in Liverpool. It's my second attempt and I'm going to use treacle syrup instead of honey as it wasn't quite there first time around. The rice is always the hardest to get right but last time it was perfect so I'm hoping I can do it again/

Anyway I'm relaxing now so will be back soon with the gin pic. Hope everyone is well.
 

Belfast people and country people are very different. If you are Irish then it’s a comment the listener waves away with a ‘sure obvious’ hand gesture 😀

I finished up for Christmas last week and a couple of mates fancied a big day out in the city. I work there regularly and it’s all old hat to me but funny to watch my mates engage with locals. You wouldn’t think there would be a language barrier in such a small place 😀
 
Evening guys. Busy day today (and tomorrow). I'm having the neighbours around for a curry tomorrow night so I've been busy slaving over the stove all afternoon. I'm doing an Anj inspired Zanzibar chicken curry, a mushroom bhaji side dish, some tamarind fries and an authentic Indian rice dish. Unlike Blue, I bought the naan breads at the supermarket, but everything else is prepared from scratch. Chicken and mushroom dishes are done and, if I say so myself, are stunningly good. I'm trying to replicate the tamarind fries from my favourite restaurant in Liverpool. It's my second attempt and I'm going to use treacle syrup instead of honey as it wasn't quite there first time around. The rice is always the hardest to get right but last time it was perfect so I'm hoping I can do it again/

Anyway I'm relaxing now so will be back soon with the gin pic. Hope everyone is well.
We are expecting pics now.

In your own time.

*drunk man salivating on Dublin train.
 


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