All Change Again

 The last couple of weeks the planet appears to have gone totally insane!

In the UK all covid restrictions have now been concluded...Personally I am going to continue to wear a mask. As someone with a chronic disease which can be seriously impacted by the virus plus a collection of pulmonary embolism in my left lung I am determined to avoid the virus as much as I can humanly manage!

In Europe President Putin appears to have suffered what can only be described as a major brain fart. Following weeks of posturing he has finally launched his invasion of Ukraine to remove the Nazi Regime currently in power. I assume he feels that a Comedian turned Politician is ot fit for the people of his country to democratically elect to run the place...after all all the people overseeing the election did not find any sign of cheating so how could he have won! He wasn't hand picked by Russia and the imbecilic people were allowed free choice...Totally out of order! But it seems to not be going as ordered! Putin has asked the Ukrainian Army to over throw the Nazi Regime - they have point blank refused and come of them have been recorded telling the Russian Navy to "Go Fuck Yourselves" Unfortunately they didn't and basically shelled the Garrison of the face of the planet; but the rest of the Ukraine Armed forces plus any person who has a gun, are fighting back and the reports this morning say that if they can hold out for 10 days Russia will run out of both money and resources. But with a reserve force of 2 million they won't fun out of troops to send to die.

The main cause of all this, other than the Regime being classed as Nazis by Putin, are they have asked to join Nato. So far this has not been agreed, and until it has there are no legal grounds for any other nation to sent their armed forces in. But the US have given $350million to assist in the fight, and I believe the UK have sent a load of hardware. I only hope they have sent instructions with them!

When the invasion began Putin claimed that no civilians would be involve or become casualties...I get the impression that House elf would not know the truth if it hit him in the face. Either that or the army have to worst aim in the world. But the Ukrainians have downed several aircraft and wiped out a selection of armoured vehicle convoys...Mikey is busy making plans on how to take Putin out to protect the work from his madness. Even the Taliban are telling him to stop and support from China appears to fading.

He is really no0t showing any signs of sanity...his latest announcement is that if Sweden and Finland are allowed to join NATO then they will face serious repercussions. Ukraine was, in the past, part of the USSR which Putin appears to feel should reform under Tsar Putin so that he doesn't have to cheat/buy any more election wins. Neither Sweden or Finland were part of USSR...they just have the misfortune to border the are the despot currently holds. He really needs a break to reset - and having Trump telling the world what a genius Putin is does not help his global image. After all - if anyone knows how to Cheat it is Trump! Or at leat how to try and cheat....

Poor Mikey has been very concerned about war in Europe - he has been under the impression he could be called up under Conscription laws. It has taken us most of this week to get him to believe that 11 year old boys have not been conscripted for centuries, so if I get hold of Putin I will slap him into another century for messing with my child. And I am sure there are 100s of other mothers and fathers who would join me..

Tough Day

 Today has been tough for me. I have had a headache since before Christmas and have been refusing to talk to a Dr; mostly because I am fed up with being sent to A&E! But I was nagged whilst I was in the woods yesterday so this morning at 8.00 I started trying to get through... The first 4 calls it was just engaged, but the 5th was the magic moment and I was in a queue of 18! After 25 minutes I actually got to speak to a human! And I was added to the list for a call back from a clinician. Usually that results in being called by a nurse, but for once I was called by a Dr several hours later!

In the meantime I tried to call Amazon as I am still awaiting a refund for a parcel they never delivered as the carrier damaged it... I have no clue how they damaged socks, but they managed it. The 1st person I got through to was very indian and just kept saying she couldn't hear me due to the background noise at my end. I advised her there was no noise her and hung up! The second call from Phillippe who definitely was not French ended when he hung up on me. The third time was lucky for me and once I had convinced her that I had not received the order, just re-ordered after they did nothing, she processed my refund!

After all that I retired downstairs to wait for the GP to call. Andy had the Olympics on, but I signed into I Player and settled down to watch some Ice Hockey. Although I loved it I had so many memories triggered of my Sunday evenings as the Ice Bowl yelling at the top of my voice, leaving me voiceless on most Monday mornings! I don't think Mum ever understood how much we loved it, and when he started going with Jake I was decidedly envious! 

The GP called just before lunch and as a result I'm on antibiotics for a week as she thinks I have a sinus infection and I have been told to go to A&E as she wants my head scanned!  The current plan is to go on Tuesday once I have started the anti biotics and had a chat with ACC about the anti biotics as it can impact my blood thinners... Hopefully not too many kids will have got injured early in half term...

So now I am emotional, fed up and wanting to spend as little time in hospital on Tuesday as I can. But I did do a test this morning so it isn't Covid thankfully!

Not Enjoying This year

 I'm still not feeling happy....if anything I am just getting more and more depressed. Rory is trying to show as much love as a cat can, Misty only seems to want to cause as many problems as she can and all I want is a dog to give me the unconditional love they are so renowned for.

Mikey is being bullied by a group of morons at school and I am threatening to go in to show them the error of their ways. One of them was at Primary with Mikey and was well known for trying to inflict his opinions etc on others...he is still trying to do this but appears to have now tracked down a couple of muscle bound numbskulls to do his bidding. They all spend alot of time in isolation but it obviously doesn't work and telling me that the issues within Mikey's form are well known really does not give me any faith that anything is being done to deal with it. Mikey used to be up for going to school - now I'm having to talk him in to going by giving him coping mechanisms that he can use when one of the gang decide it is time to make his life hell again. I am not putting up with this and will happily get louder if I need to.

Personally I am still totally exhausted and my headache that started over Christmas is showing no sign of leaving me alone. My blood is also not behaving itself and If I can't stabilise at an INR >2 I will be back in the injections as well as the tablets. I still have all the bumps from the 1st lot of injections so I have absolutely no desire to add anymore as it makes injecting my insulin a real problem as well. The ACC nurses are also not happy that I don't want to eat most of the time, but I still can't taste 'normal' flavours so I find it very difficult to even want to eat. But I'm still not managing to lose any weight which is starting to get decidedly annoying. And having finished my chocolate ban I still really have no desire to eat any now - but if anyone removes my mints I will probably start a murder spree as I am still feeling constantly sick. If I was a horse I would have been shot by now...

What is really annoying me as well at the moment is that I appear to have lost my desire to Diamond Paint - all I really feel like doing, other than curling up and crying, is to lose myself in a good book until I finally fall asleep - hopefully for a few days. A week in a coma is very appealing right now.