Winter: My excuse for drinking more coffee!

It’s cold. And for those who might perhaps claim that I do not know what cold is, I do and 12c here is cold. A nice 56F may be the bees knees in Scotland, but here in South Australia it’s colder and it is only the start of winter.  However, I have made a discovery – I have discovered how difficult it is use  a laptop when wearing woolen gloves. Annabell, bless her wee heart, is sleeping in a warm bed, in a warm room. Ah yes, my electricity account in action  :o). I am drinking lots of coffee. I know that’s not so good, but who cares, the mug is warm to hold  and my poor hands enjoy the temporary heat.

This weekend is a long weekend with Monday as a public holiday. The public holiday is to celebrate the King’s Birthday. Come Monday and may  have a glass of something to wish ” Happy Birthday, King Charles”  provided, of course, that I haven’t frozen to death before then.  Annabell has not been too bad these last few days. She still gets me up at 3-4 am to help her but mostly I can get back to sleep again. If it is any later – say around 5am, I just stay up for our morning walk. and get ready to take Benji out at between 5:45 -6am.

Tuesday 13th. Well, as you can see, I didn’t freeze to death. Was awake twice this morning and although I stayed up the second time, Benji really didn’t want to go out, so I went out on my own. I really need to get him to the vet but I cannot do so until tomorrow. Monday was a public holiday, today is a hospital day, so  it has to be tomorrow. At this moment,  tomorrow is a relatively free day – depending on how Annabell is and  depending on the vet being available.

The CT Scan didn’t take that long and we were home by 5pm.   At the moment she is resting in her recliner and I have covered her with  blankets and I expect she will fall asleep. She has had a troubling day and she is tired. I  am fine but I suspect dinner will be very much delayed tonight.  This afternoon I put a dry towel down on the table so later on I will move my laptop in there, which will allow me to continue doing what I want to do and still be close at hand if or when I am needed.

Today has been cold with some scattered showers, which, I must say were pretty heavy while they lasted. The Flinders  Ranges had  hailstorms that covered the area in an interesting white blanket. The temperature here fell to 9c – which was even colder than yesterday – the cold coming off the Antarctic icefield. Seem it will be like this for a few days.

Annabell was well rugged up and sleeping so I went out early and did the shopping and people are complaining about the cold. I mean, we have gone down to 2c  before and I really don’t remember it being as cold as it is at the moment with this 9c. It’s very odd.

Since starting this I have had to take Annabell the hospital (A & E) but after sitting in the waiting room for nearly three hours to have a seven minute consult with a doctor, nothing really changed. Despite all the tests and the scans there is no indication of what is causing the pain in the lower abdomen and despite what Annabell thinks, it is not related to the Cancer.

I have a view (doesn’t everyone?). She finds that placing a hot water bottle on the affected area eases the pain. It occurs to me that I did something similar some 40  years ago when I had gallbladder problems and the heat from a hot water bottle definitely helped ease the pain and discomfort – then  I had an operation and that was the end of that.   Probably totally way off base, but I can’t help thinking about that time and the hot water bottle. But then, doctors are supposed to know things that we mere mortals have no knowledge of.