Stay in the distance

'Lethargy?' asks the renal doctor running through the list of symptoms I'm supposed to say yes to so they can tell me how ill I am. Lethargy? Oh, I wish! Maybe if I could manage more of that I wouldn't lie awake at night racked with pain, maybe when doing things hurts during the day I'd capitulate instead of wanting to conquer, and just sit contendedly still. Maybe I wouldn't get so frustrated and bored and mardy and cross... But no, I don't wish it really, I'm grateful for my steadfast resistance to in the box or towards the box medical thinking. And I give thanks when the young man popped next door to check with his boss the treatment plan I proposed was OK with her, she sent the message back she'd clocked me looking very well in the waiting room...

I give thanks for my post blood test feast of forbidden fruit (and veg!), for the excellent Inspector Borowski secreted in the recesses of Channel 4's Walter Presents - dark, but also very humorous. Managed to stay still for quite a bit of that, apart from knitting and typing, and getting up for cuppas and snacks. I give thanks to Jan and Liz for virtual chat to keep me company, and to Colin for suggesting something to think of on my own...in case I hadn't thought of it myself!

I give thanks for confirming I can still hear drums, a couple of times when there's been heavy morning rain pattering closer by I've thought I could detect the rhythm but they sound more...distant?...than they did before.  Better soundproofing perhaps...

I give thanks for watching the shafts of rain joining the clouds and sea, and randomly coming across a good tennis match. The ATP finals coverage on free-to-view TV has been rather erratic, and my signal was erratic this afternoon too but I managed to retune and tune out the neighbourly rumbles and get a little more non lethargic rest.