Eyebeemania

I’ve been awake an hour already. I think I’ll get up and go make myself a mug of coffee!

I’m not allowed to lift much. I’m not allowed to turn my head much. I’m not in any pain, just discomfort. I feel rather drained, but other than that, I’m fine in myself.

I have a ton of jobs to do around the house, but I cannot do the mright now. I wanted to get out in the garden and get some stuff sorted out, but it will have to wait.

What can I do right now?

Well, I can sit here and write like this. I can read books, blogs, and magazines, and I have many of each, so no shortage there. I can take myself out for a walk. That’s fine as long as it’s not raining or too cold. I can listen to music. I can watch TV, which is my case will mostly be YouTube videos of interest. I can do some photography editing indoors, and if I go out for a walk, I can take my camera with me. I could walk to the pub for a couple of beers, as I’m not on any medication that would prevent it. At the moment, though, I’m not really feeling like that.

Right now, after I’ve posted this, I’m going to go get myself another mug of hot coffee.

I was allowed out quite quickly this morning from the hospital. I’m quite expected the paperwork to take quite some time but he didn’t.

I did have to ask three or four times for a sicknote but I did get one at last and that carries me through till February 3 when I come back to work.

Kathy made some chicken and a bit of salad for dinner as neither of us were particularly hungry after we’ve had a little sleep this afternoon.

We sat and watched Johnny Cash biography on the TV this evening and then I went to bed

I was told that after my op yesterday, that I had to sleep sitting up. It wasn’t going to happen, and it mostly didn’t happen.

I can’t sleep sitting up, unless I am extremely tired, and I can’t sleep on my back either.

My Apple Watch clocked a total of 1 hour 19 minutes sleep all night. Oh well. I hope to be going home today.

This is really to check if everything is getting cross-posted to the various platforms that I have set up

This time tomorrow, I could be under the knife. I will certainly be in hospital in any case.

I’ve had this annoying cough for some years now. Lingering coughs should be investigated, of course, and it was.

I had a CT scan, which revealed extra growth around my thyroid. Then I was sent to the Royal Marsden for a PET scan to determine if I had anything malignant, and after a worrying wait, the result was negative.

It seems I have thyroid nodules, which apparently many people over 50 get. Most people aren’t even aware of them, but mine have grown inwards, pressing on my oesophagus and windpipe. This causes me to cough when I sit down after walking, and also after eating.

It doesn’t appear to be getting any worse, but it’s not getting any better, and it can be quite embarrassing when in public. Coughing my guts up for ten minutes in a restaurant, or on public transport, certainly gets disapproving looks and people moving away from me on the bus or train, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hopefully, the operation to remove these nodules will cure the coughing, which can be quite tiring for me at times, even when on my own.

There are risks, of course. One is that my voice could be affected, and the worst-case scenario is that I could lose my voice altogether. Some would welcome that, methinks.

Today, I can eat and drink normally. I can even have water and black coffee as late as 6 am tomorrow, and it’s fortunate for me that I drink my coffee black these days!

Hopefully, the postoperative recovery won’t be too painful or take too long, and I’ll be back in the swing of things soon.

Perhaps I’ll take up singing if this cough is finally dispelled.

What’s that? You’d rather I lose my voice altogether?

I shouldn’t be surprised, really, having spent most of my life in this part of the world, but it certainly been a temperature up and down yo-yo these past few days. Monday was a fairly cold start, and yesterday morning we started out at 48°F, and this morning we woke up to 32, so we are quite sure where we are with the temperature.

It’s a pleasant enough day looking out there through the window. The sun is shining. It’s a blue, cloudless sky, and it looks like a perfect day to go out until you stick your nose out the door, and then it’s like walking into the freezer.

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