Very strange year so far. It’s the 15th, and Dot and I are still feeling quite ill, clogged up and lacking in energy. Just had a call from the vicar, who’s had something similar but was worrying about us. Keep thinking we’ll be all right tomorrow, but then we’re not. Dot has been practising for orchestra tonight, but we’ll have to see whether she’s well enough to go. At least we haven’t had a high temperature; so it’s not flu. Something to be thankful for.
This is how it’s gone over the last week:
Thursday, the 9th, was sunny and dry. Very cold. Still up and down healthwise. Same old symptoms most of the day, improving slightly in evening. Dot improving very slowly. Mark got us some oranges. Wrote quite a few e-mails and read meters. Dot paid tax. Watched Cat Ballou in evening and the second episode of Patience, a police series featuring an autistic puzzle-solver, which was very good. Still feel quite cut off from real life. Weird.
Friday the 10th was again sunny and dry. Very cold. Both of us feeling well below par, but Dot has energy to do things, whereas I haven’t, most of the time. No appetite. Heaviness. Bad head, but can carry on at the moment, though the temptation is to stay in bed. Tonight chest and head don’t feel good. Mark brought us a bit more stuff. I had a bath and finished reading John Julius Norwich book – very good – then read short Alan Bennett book Kristine gave us for Christmas. Also excellent. Bit of sleep. Watched two episodes of three-parter on the Renaissance, which were quite revealing. Also FA cup match between Aston Villa and West Ham, which the latter won because they were given a corner which blatantly wasn’t one. Quite worried about my slow progress and random pains in head and rest of body.
Saturday – extremely cold: fog and ice. Paul came round to see us in the morning, and I felt well enough to go down and have a drink with him (at opposite side of room). Dot improving but not well enough to go to first of a series of meetings at church on peace – part-led by Phil Gazley. We listened to Norwich lose 4-0 to Brighton in the FA Cup. I definitely felt a change, as if I might have turned a corner – so much so that I cooked a meal that Mark had got for us: moussaka. Very nice. Discovered Graham still unwell, and Liz will be taking baptism tomorrow. Watched quite a bit of TV, including final episode of Renaissance documentary, which was excellent, and another documentary, on Yellowstone, which had nice pictures but was written as if for a class of not very bright ten-year-olds. David FaceTimed: he and Chrissy seemed perky and well.
Sunday – No change in weather and not much change in health, though managed to cook meal again. Watched quite a lot of TV – including Spurs making heavy weather of beating Tamworth. Watched a couple of episodes of new Gaelic thriller – in Gaelic.
Monday – still very cold. Dot went to Morrisons and I almost went with her, but didn’t feel quite well enough. Then we almost went to Cake and Compline at Eleanor’s, but again both felt worse just before – so I got Bridget to call in and pick up the compline I’d chosen. Elaine said her iodine recommendation may have been a bit too radical. Ho hum. Did manage to put the rubbish out.
Tuesday – Becoming warmer and dry. Very gradual improvement for both of us, slightly delayed in my case by having my hair cut. Dot had hers cut too of course, but it doesn’t seem to affect her in the same way. Felt very tired after lunch. Read a bit. Cooked chilli con carne for supper and watched Silent Witness, which was pretty good. Then an old episode of Outnumbered, which was brilliant. Long interchange with various people (mainly Debbie) on DCC issues ended with meeting being moved back to February. Reading The City and the City – vague memory of seeing it on TV years ago. Very clever.