Electronic Art

A very quick Blip before bed  - didn’t get much sleep last night due to fibro pain and my foot injury.

Went to bed at half eleven last night and ended up getting up and sitting up on the chair from 1.30am to 4am. Made some lemon and ginger tea with a squirt of honey. Went back to bed and managed a restless three hours of sleep.

A friend texted me late morning and very kindly offered to collect my meds for me so I now have my new fibro meds - not holding out much hope as have tried them before but current meds definitely were making me feel very depressed and not myself at all. I was incredibly grateful to her.

Another friend showed me some photos of her wee boy’s birthday celebration today which really cheered me up. He chose a lovely rainbow themed cake with mini meringue toppings. She has been such a loyal friend to me throughout my health issues. She has three lovely kids (two boys and a girl) and she has endless patience with them. She has been through a lot recently and I hope things improve for her. She is a fellow astrology and moon lover.

Tonight is a Full Moon, a Wolf moon and the first of 2023. I think it’s too wet to see it clearly here but I am going to make some wishes anyway and let go of all negativity. I try and do that every Full Moon.

I’ve tried to acquire a shower seat from Social Work but no joy as yet. I expect it will take a long time. My own fault for being too stubborn to ask for one years ago!

I’m going to try and improvise tomorrow by using an old camping chair I remembered I had in the back of the cupboard - I don’t actually know where it came from as I have never been camping in my life except at primary school and I hated it! I hope it fits in the shower cubicle…

I’ve spent today emailing Social Work re support, resting and elevating my foot. Getting to the loo is still a major challenge and I am getting very frustrated at how tiring and sore it is. My fibro is not happy with the additional stress of hobbling around. I hate using the walking stick to be honest but it is helping me stay mobile indoors at least.

I’ve read a good bit of my novel and did a lot of Duolingo German revision lessons today, scored 95% which I was proud of given I only got three hours of sleep and haven’t napped during the day. I did a few French ones too for a bit of variety and to keep my mind off the pain.

I thought it was about time I posted less foot selfies haha so today’s are photos of doodles I have created over the past six months using the Art Set app on my iPad. I’m not a very talented artist as you will see but I thought they may raise a smile and be preferable  to my ugly feet!

Keep your fingers crossed for a successful shower tomorrow as I am feeling so grubby. Strip washes are all well and good but nothing beats a shower and the warm water does take the edge of my fibro achiness of a morning. I sometimes have an evening shower too when I have the energy. Sometimes showers ease the pain, sometimes they exhaust me. Fibro life!

Thanks for the suggestion from Mumof4Wildings re getting a boot to help me bear weight on my foot - I will ask the district nurse when she comes out on Tuesday to change my dressing. Thanks for the recipe too - am going to give it go when I am more mobile around the kitchen. It sounds delicious :)

Thanks for all your kindness. I will catch up with reading Blips, stars, hearts and comments tomorrow. I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend so far :) xx