It's a working from home day today. F is looking a bit harassed again, so I have stayed out of her way. Our dining room table looks like an unnatural disaster - paper, sewing, bike parts, a paint brush, coffee cups and empty food bowls....and the computer and phones and wires and all that stuff.
Someone upstairs has their TV turned WAY up and we can hear what sounds like the music on kids TV programmes. One of F's colleagues had to be taken into hospital today - she had been complaining of backache at work last week and this morning was on her way to hospital immediately she got up from her bed. Now she is on intravenous antibiotics. It's kind of scary how a fit healthy person can suddenly fall off their perch - she was meant to be running a marathon in Edinburgh this coming weekend. The poor girl will, once she gets over the shock of being so seriously ill, be lamenting months of wasted training.
What a downer!
We are grateful for good health, plenty of food in the fridge, a comfortable home, friends to call on, and the nature experiences that we can find just across the road. Life is a mix of things and the best we could wish for is good balance. We hope you are all having a well balanced day too.
Hari Om
ReplyDeleteOh Tigger, my brother is to be running the Edin Mara... I feel for the lass who has landed herself in hospital instead. We just don't know what is around the corner for us, eh? I wish I could tell you my day was balanced - but it started out a bit ugly, to be honest. I'll write about it elsewhere. Thank goodness, though, I had a friend here to keep me from jumping out the window!!! Conversely - yesteday was lovely. So therein lies the balance, ta. Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Good luck to your bro. We hear it is a windswept event along the coast. Don't go jumping out of windows. It just makes a mess that someone else has to clean up. You more than anyone know that balance is more than one day. Furrings and purrings Mr T
DeleteBalance is sometimes the impossible dream! But worth going for anyway.
ReplyDeleteLots of people we know dream of unadulterated happiness. That isn't balance and doesn't prepare us for handling the grief.
DeleteOh my. It is scary how a backache can turn into something so serious. I hope she recovers quickly.
ReplyDeleteYou hear stories like that and it makes you wonder why the body signals the way it does. Weird. She had put it down to the running build-up.
Deletejust as I get balanced I fall off the edge or something whacks me or mine up side the head. sorry the day has been off and about your friend in hospital. prayers for her to be ok. 2 years ago my friend annouced at 81 years old she had lukemia, we were all shocked to the core thinking it was a childhood disease and 9 months later she was gone. that was a whack up side the head. all we can do is keep on trucking, in your case Tigger keep on dollying... MOL
ReplyDeleteF's Dad died of cancer and it wasn't kind but he went from active and involved to nothing in about 6 weeks. He was still directing gardening operations 4 or 5 days before he passed. In F's mind he never got old or decrepit. Her Mum on the other hand faded and in the end that hurt more.
DeleteI hope your friend is better soon
ReplyDeleteTraining is never wasted. She is obviously very healthy and that will help her to get over the illness
Yes I’m very grateful for what I have. I always say there but for the grace of god go I
Always count your blessings
She has had a rough time recently with sudden death of her Dad and discovering he'd been hiding a cancer secret for over a decade. Other stuff fed into it and she had kind of mentally crashed so it's not a stretch to imagine her immune system went out in sympathy. Inflammation goes with depression it seems.
DeleteI am grateful for all those things too Tigger and for the company of furry friends too! Tink
ReplyDeleteTink, i don't have a furry friend. F has a tuft on top and Mr B is missing even that tuft. xxx Mr T (but I'm grateful for them just the same.)
DeleteHello Tigger (and F). Monday - yesterday- was bright and sunny and dry and not too cool……more like a spring day than a late autumn. No washing done on the traditional Monday wash day.
ReplyDeleteThat was some Monday you (and company had)…..hopefully things will sort themselves out for you all. Today (selfishly) I’m grateful my darling big girl has made it safely back to Melbourne after being on the road for the past 12 months doing ‘a big lap’. They’l be here for a few weeks then off again for another go around our big brown land
Take care
Cathy
F is envious of your big girl. When F was a kid her grandparents worked their way around a lap of your big brown land, and she has been dying to do the same ever since (They took a couple of years and it was early/mid 70's)
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