When things start going wrong.

[fpb]

Yesterday I left my nephew in his parents' hands. My mother left for Rome - and promptly found that she had misread her ticket and was half an hour late to catch her flight. She managed to get there on time, only to find that it was two hours late. Meanwhile I went home and promptly fell sic with a painful, ripping sort of cough that rises right from the lungs - I can feel them practically being torn every time I cough. The savage weather is devouring heating fuel at a rate I cannot afford, let alone that I should go out today or tomorrow and get the money and pay for the heating, and I really, really do not feel like it. Worst of all, day-before-yesterday I had a scary fit of unfocussed sight. For half an hour I could not focus on anything, so much as to read the price on a food label. This leads me to fear that my sight might be in danger - which is just about the worst thing I could think of. Finally, when my mother finally got home, she found that the filthy weather - which is blanketing not only England, but all of Europe - had got to her own mother - my last surviving grandparent - and that she has slipped into a coma. It is only the icing on the cake that the weather seems to have got the Pope as well, and that he too is apparently in danger of his life. We will have another Pope, but I am not going to have another grandmother, nor, if the danger is verified, another sight.

Comments

[kikei.livejournal.com]

*huggles* I'm so sorry. is there anything I could do to help out?

*passes you lots of chicken soup*

-Kiks

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Actually, hot soup has been very useful in dealing with the symptoms. A lot of what happened cannot be changed, but I wish that the weather would improve. Meanwhile I have been sleeping under hot blankets for an hour or two at a time, which does not hurt either.

When I've recovered, I will make an appointment to see my doctor. Meanwhile, thanks for your sympathy. I am really rather a tough so-and-so as a rule, but this week has been an absolute bitch.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

By the way, I now realize that when we were chatting yesterday and I had to leave, I already had the illness on me. I thought I should tell you so you understand.