I wrote this post after my last visit to see Annabell in Quorn. I believe I had posted it – and I am certain I did- but for some strange reason it seems to have got stuck in drafts. I don’t believe it actually was posted and I cannot find it.  If it is posted and you have read it please forgive me for posting it again, but   along with everything else at the moment, the computer is playing  up.

Well, here we are again. Nothing has changed since last I wrote. Annabell is still in Quorn although she is showing some small signs of improvement, and she did talk to me whilst I was there.  She is still unable to move so I still feed her lunch when I am there. The nursing staff considered that I was slightly crazy since it was 44c and I drove from Whyalla to Quorn and will drive back home during the hottest part of the day.  Yes we are in heatwave conditions at the moment and the temp has not dropped below 41c for most of this week and since the end of the heatwave is still a few days off, I felt I had to be here and to wait out the heatwave would have left her unvisited for too many days. I will have tomorrow off and be back up again on Wednesday as normal. Sometime during Thursday, the cool change will start to move across the state dropping temperatures down. Thankfully I have an excellent A/C in the car and  there were times during the drive north that I had to turn it down as it was getting just a tad cold . o:)  I will have my break Thursday and Friday and back north again on Saturday, however, two days of housework, laundry, garden and shopping and I might manage to sit down for a bit. There is plenty of cold water in the car for me and for the car- if required. In this weather I make a point of checking water and oil each morning after a Quorn visit.

Since I resigned from all duties I have just about been abandoned.  Only one person comes to see me – no one calls and asks how things are. This is how 33 years of service ends.

Still there is one left and he visits me each Friday because he knows I  am home – and his dear wife sends lovely cards for me to take with me when I go to Quorn. Also – she has made a couple of meals that have been brought to me, which is really very kind of her. When I was in the shopping centre, one woman said that if she had not heard my voice, she would not have known it was me – I have lost so much weight. Not so much now but yes, in the early days of worry and stress.  I was talking to the Senior Nurse the last visit and she was looking at a photograph I had of Benji, and she asked if that was our dog. I said it was, and she asked me why I had not brought him up for a visit.  I said I would once the weather starts to cool down. One good thing is that Benji is not a head out of the window kind of dog, he merely curls up on the front seat and goes to sleep.

He has had to put up with a lot this while back, being left in the house on his own whilst I travel up North to visit Annabell. I try to make it up to him when I get home. We still go out for walk in the morning even on a Quorn visit day and it is no matter what the temperature since the walk is at 6am and still dark. I don’t leave for Quorn until about 9am. On this last visit to Quorn I was given a gift by a young lady. I was reluctant to accept but she insisted as did her “companion” Well, I figured when a  two year old gives you a gift with the approval of her mother, It would be very rude. not to mention, ungentlemanly, not to accept. I did and her gift is now sitting beside my computer.  I always wanted as Unicorn of my own..