Deirdre Geraghty

I have had a big roast dinner and a pudding and a glass of wine and l am feeling rather stuffed. It’s an opportunity to eat lots of veggies and it will set me up for the week. Yummy!

Ooh Friday again. I love Fridays. I don’t have to get up early for any reason and the thought of that is really good. Although I am a pensioner so it’s probably my state of mind that encourages me to get up early ish during the week.

My back is hurting a lot today. I think about my fall and how I kept being told I had bruised my muscles and it will take a long time to heal. It wasn’t until I decided to visit A & E three weeks later that I discovered l have a wedge fracture of the spine and I am now on strong painkillers going forward. I was on morphine and then codeine at first but they really mess with your head and I am on different painkillers now.

Yey, it seems that it’s time for parliament to reopen and all my favourite political programmes are now back on the television. Great!

Oh dear! I have been feeling sorry for myself which I shouldn’t. I am not in psychiatric hospital or anything. I’m not being made to sit in a circle and wave my arms in the air. I am well ish. I have food in the kitchen, I have coffee and a kettle. I’m warm in winter and cool ish in summer. I have a double bed to myself and I have the TV remote. This is heaven… and I also have good friends and family. Who could ask for more?