Meany 40, Bad Tummy Due To Overdose on Painkillers

Had some fun this morning sending Meany (Marina) rude birthday cake pictures via WhatsApp because she was forty today. Card arrived and she sent message to tell Hannah she had lovely hand writing (Hannah wrote card because my handwriting on cards is dreadful … as she pointed out). I came home from work early last night as very upset tummy probably because taken too many painkillers for poorly shoulder. Had intended to stay up so could sleep through the day but shortly after plugging in mp3 player I fell asleep and didn’t wake until Nat woke me when he came downstairs at seven to start his paper round. Went to bed about 9.30 and after WA’s with pervy pals for a while put myself to sleep using Bill Bryson’s Short History. Fantastic book but his voice could replace the sleeping pill industry. Woke at six, still in some pain and tummy still sensitive, ate dinner and came to work. We were asked if it was possible we might start work at 7pm instead of 8pm and work until 6am instead of 7am. General consensus was negative. It would certainly make things more awkward at home if I were to do this. Feed curried broccoli by Hasmukh and as always tasted delicious. FB’d Tweeted and WA’d with friends during night. We were reasonably quiet during the evening and after 12:00 calls virtually stopped. One to One return to work with Leon Re: Last Night sick and will press Occupational Health dept about shoulder problem.

Monday - Occ Nurse forgets me, Home, tired, boxing

As you’ll have seen in the previous entry, I returned to work on Sunday night and it was exhausting.

I would, normally, have finished at 08:00 but I’d an appointment to see the Occupational Nurse at 09:00 so I stayed on. At 09:20, after I’d checked in with the OH secretary, I was advised that the nurse had forgotten the appointment and was, in fact, visiting another company site many miles away. Five minutes later I received an extremely apologetic call from her to arrange another time. Eventually we agreed to wait until I had returned to work to do three days and that she would email me then to arrange for us to finally meet! To say I was annoyed would be an understatement, by this time I was exhausted and hurting and remaining on site for the additional one and a half hours was something I would rather have avoided. I cycled home, slowly, to discover that the kids were still in bed so settled down to have a relaxing beer before waking them. I don’t recall doing a lot after that and eventually went to bed at midday to catch a few hours of shuteye. I got up around 16:00 and the four of us drove to the boxing club. Nat and Hannah appeared to enjoy the session but both were exhausted by the end because the physical regimen is very demanding.

Tuesday and Wednesday - Phone John, Occ Health Tel, Sore Throat, Occ Health Reschedule Friday, Shitty Day, No Sleep, Wed Am Bed, Swimming, Sailing

No much has happened over the last two days. Just after midnight I phoned work and spoke to JDM (mgn) re: my return and occupational health appointment. I explained that I was hoping to return, for at least one night, on Saturday but before then I had an appointment to see Lucy the Occ Health Nurse this morning. I explained that I still hadn't heard back from her to confirm this appointment and did JDM have her number so that I could check this morning. Luckily he had her number and I took it down. During this time I'd been feeling more and more unwell as my throat became increasingly painful and I continually coughed up a thick yukky mucus. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to go to the appointment and this, in part, was why I'd rang to get her number. Things got worse, I was unable to get any sleep and finally at 9:45 I gave up can called Lucy to explain why I wouldn't be able to make our meeting. Hearing my squeaky and croaky voice she thought this was best and we provisionally arranged to meet on Friday. I'm to call to confirm I'm fit and to arrange a time that day. I didn't really do anything much else for the rest of the day other than watch TV and drink too many beers in a vain, but enjoyable, attempt to ease the soreness of my throat. I stayed up after everyone else had gone to bed and eventually at 6:00 on Wednesday morning went to bed and slept until Noon*.

Shortly after I came downstairs Nat left to go swimming, with his pals, Hannah was almost inconsolable when she found out she couldn't accompany them, at Endeby Leisure Centre so we'll see him when we see him altough he can't be too late as his Scout Troop is going sailing this evening. I made Deb and Han and myself some salad sandwiches (it took me 30 minutes!) for lunch and now, because I used all the remaining bread, I'll have to pop to ASDA at some point to buy some more.

*When she got up Deb finally accepted the inevitable and phoned her work to report that she was sick and would be absent for today. While I've found this bug unpleasant it's hit her much harder and she's been feeling quite unwell for the last several days. In fact, as I was writing this she quietly crept upstairs and went back to bed where she's now fast asleep.

Hannah Twin Lakes...again, Calls, Calls, Calls, Occupational Health, Tweet 1,000

Millfield School Year Four are off to Twin Lakes today, it's a shame that the weather's so yukky, because it's the last day of the school year tomorrow and this is their end of year trip/treat. Hannah should just get a room in Melton Mowbray as it seems, at the moment at least, that she lives at Twin Lakes so frequent are her visits!

I received a plethora of telephone calls this morning; first  "Doit4Real rang wanting to speak to Deb about booking a week with them for Nat this summer because the two sites we'd already applied for were fully booked. I explained that Deb had spoken to them about this already because they'd called about it yesterday.I'd understood, from Deb, that she'd already booked an alternative venue. She had no record of this so I gave her Deb's work number so that she could check directly with her.
As I hung up the phone it rang again. Answering I could not understand anything the person on the other end said. The line cleared and the caller explained that she was Lucy and she was calling from the Occupational Health Dept at  work. My mobile rang at this point and I had to put Lucy on hold; it was Deb wanting some Doit4Real info, I explained that I couldn't speak and would call her back ASAP. Back on the line with Lucy she explained that John, my manager, had referred me to OH and she was calling to follow up his referral. She wasn't aware of my situation Re:Hip Replacement at all  so I explained the position, told her that I was now walking and that I was considering returning to work next week. She was surprised that I was thinking of returning so soon but, as I said, I was getting cabin fever at home and I was now virtually fully mobile. I suggested that perhaps I could return first for one night, then two, then three, until I was sure that I was up to returning full-time. She agreed this might be a good idea but, whatever I decided to do, she wanted to see me before I returned at all. We had provisionally agreed to meet at 11:00 next Tuesday but, as she was giving me her direct contact number, before we confirmed these arrangements she was cut off. I hadn't managed to get her number when this happened and so I was about to 1471 her call when Deb called and made that impossible. I tried, instead, to ring Reception (at work) but this number kept putting me straight through to a CSO. Apart from the fact that lines had a queue of backed-up calls a CSO wouldn't have been able to help me so I rang off to wait for Lucy to call me back... I'm still waiting!
Today I posted my 1000th Tweet and it was a dozy; I'd come across a video of famous movie themes played on the vuvuzela and posted the link to this. Here's the actual tweet:
#vuvuzela #vuvuzelafilmscores #vuvzelamusic #movies #vuvuzelas #films #filmscores Film Themes on Vuvuzela  http://bit.ly/cOmomu MY1000TWEET. I've actually embedded the video itself in the post below this one.