Disillusioned yet happy and hopeful
My husband and I now have clean, running water. We even joked that the water from the kitchen tap is too fast. The water from the rain shower head is not as gushing as we expected. The pancake shower head, as we call it, was the contraption that we both had wanted for a long […]
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My husband and I officially moved back into our condo yesterday😊. We’ve been moving in since the first week of September, when the last of our ‘replacing-our-water-pipes-cum-renovation’ was finally completed. Briefly, for most of the 18 years since we moved into our condo, we’ve had to endure rust smelling, yellowish, trickling water from our […]
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I’m now wearing a wrist splint. The cast came off at my last visit to my orthopaedic doctor. Is that progress? I’m not sure. I was told my wrist fracture was healing but there was osteoporosis around my metacarpals, the bones that are in my palm and give it its shape[1]. Anyways, at just over […]
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I wrote about my shooting-through-the roof insurance premium in 2024. The saga sadly continues. In July, my insurance company sent out emails asking if I, its customer, wanted to save on insurance premiums. I said, yes. How? Deductibles, it said. The email, paraphrased, read as follows. ‘The higher the deductible the more you can save. […]
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The first two days were the worst. Now, it’s WIP. At various times, my long term ailments have felt debilitating, but not quite like this. This is a different kind of debilitation. A kind of forced limitation that hit home almost immediately. I couldn’t do the everyday stuff. The non-thinking, just get on and do […]
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I’ve felt dizzy, nauseas and sweaty, before. Singularly and all at once, at various times. But not quite like the way I felt at pickleball the Sunday before. I was all three plus blurry eyed, unable to focus and in agony. My wrist throbbed. Everything spun. Sweat ran down my face. And I was shaking. […]
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I had sort of a news detox without realising it. For about two weeks when sister number 3 visited, I didn’t listen to BFM, a local business radio station, from Monday to Friday. I didn’t do searches on YouTube for my regular dose of politics cum economics podcasts. I also didn’t watch the late night […]
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I’m a combo-introvert. My husband thinks he might be a social-anxious introvert. Nephew number 2 says he’s surely an extreme introvert. Interesting diagnoses based on a spectrum of traits associated with introverts. Research on introverts for my previous post invariably produced results on other personality types. I looked them up not because I wanted to […]
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My fingers took the biggest hit. Neck, next. Ribs. Then, all my bones. I’m not sure which came first. Me waking up before the pain or the pain waking me up. Whichever. It was excruciating. I couldn’t bend my fingers. I couldn’t extend my fingers. Both actions were painful. It was dark so I knew […]
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I wish I had read this book a few years ago. But then, I might not have appreciated it as much as I do now. Why? Because I didn’t really think too much about aging or the elderly. Yes, I had grandparents. They were, in my then young mind, older people who weren’t really a […]
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