Drop til you shop

I give thanks for realising last night I really should do some vacuuming as holding the tube when my hands are sore is really difficult and there was a lot of vacuuming and other chores to be done before viewing today. I give thanks for remembering, struggling and squawking trying to change the Henry bag, that no matter how much it hurt it was but a lover's caress compared to the long dark nightmare months of sciatica...also, in the circumstances, for the book I picked up from the library being very slim and light!

I give thanks for agreeing to try out some new stoma pouches. It can be a tough job but someone has to do it, as they are one of the very many items not actually used by the bods that design them. I give thanks for my washing machine, clean sheets in the drawer and being able to move remarkably swiftly in a crisis! For some of those lovely flapjacks to munch as this was way too much activity to deal with before breakfast...

I give thanks for proceeding very slowly through the rest of the day, with lots of stopping altogether while my wimp side kept moaning it could NOT carry on and my fighter side had to remind it failure was not an option and if I want to move somewhere comfortable and convenient while I'm still capable I have to keep making the flat all sparkly and inviting for potential buyers. I give thanks for making it to the bus stop before I got too wet (visualising how lovely it would be if I could buy the flat right by one), for a cosy, almost dozy ride...and for the sun coming out for a while in between the grey clouds and the pink.

Although there's no rush in theory, as in theory I'm at higher risk of being rushed into hospital between now and then than most, I give thanks for a successful start to the seasonal shopping...and for where possible shopping 'local'. As an ex small trader myself my slant on this is not that you have to shop in your own particular small town, but in any of the small towns nearby - even the nearby small city if necessary - though always favouring independent businesses and specialist stores of course.

I give thanks I'm home now and my home is clean...and at some point hunger will overcome fatigue and I'll find a way to get food.