Deirdre Geraghty

I must admit that when I am watching a Tory MP on the television and they are saying all that they are going to do if they were in power and it really pisses me off. They have just been in power for fourteen years and they didn’t do any of it. Do they really think the people are going to believe them!!

Yesterday I had to go to the hospital. The doctor checked out my wrist by ultrasound and then found, as diagnosed, an angry tendon which he injected with anaesthetic and then a steroid guided by the ultrasound. It is hurting a fair bit but I am hopeful.

The guy came from the alarm company and told me that everything is working fine and I must be thrashing around in my sleep and setting off the fall sensor in the wristband. And then sleeping through the sound on my wrist, too far away from the console and just reacting to the phone call checking up on me. Oh dear!!

I was really upset last night. I was thinking about how my ex husband along with everyone else seemed to have moved on and yet l really, on my antipsychotics, just felt hurt for the past forty years and stayed in exactly the same state of mind. Maybe I shouldn’t go to the funeral!

I just had to unlock the back gate for the window cleaner and my legs were stiff because I am petrified since my last fall.

My alarm went off again at 5.00. The woman who l spoke to said not to report it yet – to wait and see if it happens again a third time but I have realised since then that my wristband didn’t go off so I think I should report that.

I dreamt that I was back in Clapham Common and my neighbours upstairs had knocked down the wall and replaced it with two so one had to walk around one and then the other. Very strange. They didn’t run it past the freeholder. Oh dear!

My landline rang late last night. I was in a deep sleep and it took a while before I worked out what the noise was when it rang off. I came downstairs and rang the number back but didn’t hang on. They rang again and said my alarm had gone off and did l require an ambulance. I discovered a low beeping sound from the alarm console which I managed to cancel but then I couldn’t get back to sleep for three hours. Really tired this morning.

I kept turning over in bed a little earlier and I was trying to decide what day of the week it was. I decided it was Monday. Then I saw my iPad and I only bring it upstairs on a Saturday night for breakfast in bed. I am pleased to discover that it’s Sunday.

I have woken early and just had a bath and washed my hair. Brought my breakfast including two mugs of coffee, my pills, my iPad and notepaper so I could write this. I have to be up early but still have plenty of time.