Kaleidoscope

I did mention a few weeks ago that I had an unexpected appointment at home when I had always had my appointments in the health Centre  or local Hospital up to now, the last 20 odd years.

I have never yet had any health checkup appointment at home (I had not asked for this appointment at home), this one has always taken place in a clinical setting, and it made me feel very vulnerable it being at home.

However, given road conditions, and the weather yesterday, and recently,, I was grateful I did not have to travel or go on the A55 which has many crashes in these bad weather conditions near me. It is almost impossible not to use or cross the A55 even for a local journey.

An experience 45 years ago, with someone who used the (my personal stuff) contents of the room I talked to them in, against me. I was shocked when he boasted how he did it..... and since then I have always been cautious of what I keep or use the room for, that I have to invite strangers into.

Since 2020 with Covid and lockdowns and no one particularly coming into my personal space, I used the front room for all kinds of personal stuff. I realised with this appointment, how much stuff about myself I was giving away....

So this last couple of weeks, I have been reorganising the bungalow (it needed the organisation anyway), so that the personal stuff was out of the way in the two back rooms. I don't like people touching some of my personal stuff and collections.

Well, this was a far bigger task than I had realised, and this is taking all my mental and physical stamina to actually do. The front room is how I need it to be now. But the other two rooms are a big mess. Until I can organise it properly, but it makes me a lot happier the stuff out of the way from other people.

In fact, when the health visitor came in, I noticed she did a surreptitious look around, and her face looks puzzled like perhaps she couldn't glean any information about me from it. There is information about me but it's in the drawers etc and will always easily be put away in future. So I was glad that all my work changing/tidying was successful.. and I will now have to keep the place tidy in future. Keeping tidy is not one of my best natural qualities.....

Anyway, the nurse was an hour early, which caught me on the hop....but I was already prepared.

She is the first person in the NHS that has done her research before she met me. And she had done it thoroughly. In addition she knew I was deaf, and everything I have said in the past to anyone in the Welsh health service about my deafness and the cards I have given out, she knew all of that.

This made for a much easier health appointment for me.  It is as it should be for anyone with a disability.  

The whole appointment went well, and I will be having another home visit in e year's time....

Having the home visit made life so much easier for me, whereas having to actually physically go for an appointment, and park in impossible hospital car parks, and all that comes with it, to be honest, I'm finding this kind of stuff a little bit too hard work to do on my own now.

Wildlife video
A Fox investigates & a Badger looks for food
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DElhz8CIds6/?igsh=YXBnendzMnRqcXFs

And the same vid on TikTok
but TikTok would not let me have a link for this video will nearly 24 hours, saying that they were reviewing it because of my previous video which they said breached community guidelines and they took it off. TikTok were however letting people view this video, and said if I wanted more views I would have to pay, something like £8 or £9 I think it was, for another 99 views... cue naughty words for me... anyway they've just released letting me have a link for it... the days of the free Internet are just about over....

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdB3GWBo/

Creative... it is a kaleidoscope of some plastic/silk forsythia flowers I have, which are going in the garden... they look quite effective among natural greenery.... my back garden gets no sun in winter, and I would like it to look cheery and spring like...

Sweet dreams...
Take care

I will catch up on comments tomorrow, I know I am a bit behind, But I have been busy and very tired....