Just a short post to say…

I’m back in hospital. Yes, again.

Wish I hadn’t ended up spending my birthday here, but never mind. It happens; it’s not my first hospital birthday.

I have no energy to post more, so I’ll just say hope you are doing okay.

Medical Mutterings: The Way Things Stand

I have not planned on doing this post yet, but I think I need to. 

The liver is able to repair itself when it’s damaged.

At least, it is up to a point.

I’m already past that point.

There is no getting better, only trying to stabilise and slow down my liver failure.

Had I noticed I was sick sooner, or had they listen to me sooner, maybe we might of caught things early enough to have a different story. But I didn’t, they didn’t, we didn’t, so this is the way things stand.

Celebrating #Samhain 2023

Despite still feeling pretty unwell, I was determined to try and do a little something to celebrate Samhain )otherwise known as Halloween, or Nos Calan Gaeaf in Welsh).  So we hung up an Autumn themed reef on the door...

Kelly helped me make sure there was a Mr. Pumpkin-Head (what I always call my carved pumpkins, ever since I wrote the poem of that name years ago) to put in the window...

And I enjoyed some tea in my new 'Witches Brew' cauldron-shaped mug (brought a couple of months ago, but not shown to you at the time, to match the teapot I got a couple of years ago)...

 

 

While we watched episodes of "Wednesday" on Netflix and waited for trick-or-treaters.

 

There were very few trick-or-treaters (even when compared to recent years, when we've had less than there always used to be when I was young) between the rain and our minimalist approach to decorations, but I'm sure Kelly doesn't mind finishing off the Halloween chocolates.