Deirdre Geraghty

I headed up for bed around nine feeling tired but ended up discussing NHS in Tory hands on my phone. Then tried to get to sleep but no luck. So I’m up again and probably won’t sleep tonight.

I was so tired yesterday which was Mother’s Day. My phone started going ding at 8.20 and I was trying to catch up with sleep. It was lovely that other people were up and awake and wanting to wish good greetings but I wasn’t too pleased. Never mind, they meant well.

My tablet had died and I spent yesterday trying my new one. It is very difficult for me to learn something new. It’s not that my memory doesn’t work but I find it very difficult to concentrate. So it’s very slow and tiring.

Sorry I haven’t been here. I’m back now.

I have had soft tissue damage to my left ring finger since my fall and I thought it was finally healed enough to put my ring back on several days ago. It was hurting this morning and I discovered it was quite tight and I managed to get it off. Yet again I had better leave it off for a while longer.

I woke up early this morning and I realised that I wasn’t going back to sleep. I was worrying about all sorts of things so got up. My early coffee – absolutely delicious.

Like the people of Scotland I voted to remain in Europe. Most of those who voted to leave have since changed their minds. I don’t blame them but those who persuaded them to vote that way and that was also like 1930s Germany.

Freedom of speech is supposed to be one of our fundamental rights in this country. We are supposed to be free despite a Tory government.

I have a mesh basket and two ceramic mugs with lids so I can have breakfast in bed on a Sunday in front of my little television. What a luxury!

An Occupational Therapist battled through the snow blizzard to get to me yesterday. She was brilliant and took my temperature, blood pressure, pulse rate and oxygen levels which I wasn’t expecting and she was very thorough. They are going to put a handrail near the stairs which is close to where I fell.