Deirdre Geraghty

Ooh Friday again. I love Fridays. I don’t have to get up early for any reason and the thought of that is really good. Although I am a pensioner so it’s probably my state of mind that encourages me to get up early ish during the week.

My back is hurting a lot today. I think about my fall and how I kept being told I had bruised my muscles and it will take a long time to heal. It wasn’t until I decided to visit A & E three weeks later that I discovered l have a wedge fracture of the spine and I am now on strong painkillers going forward. I was on morphine and then codeine at first but they really mess with your head and I am on different painkillers now.

Yey, it seems that it’s time for parliament to reopen and all my favourite political programmes are now back on the television. Great!

Oh dear! I have been feeling sorry for myself which I shouldn’t. I am not in psychiatric hospital or anything. I’m not being made to sit in a circle and wave my arms in the air. I am well ish. I have food in the kitchen, I have coffee and a kettle. I’m warm in winter and cool ish in summer. I have a double bed to myself and I have the TV remote. This is heaven… and I also have good friends and family. Who could ask for more?

I have been looking to be making friends in the neighbourhood even though I don’t really go out that much but none of it has really gone well and I’m giving up on that. Maybe just stick with what and who l know for now.

I do try very hard to be an amiable person promoting an amicable feeling between everyone whenever I can. To me that is very important.

I couldn’t get to sleep last night and ended up going back downstairs back on the chair where I nodded off many times in the early hours. I hope to sleep really well tonight.

When I am speaking to someone that I don’t know I get very nervous and talk absolute nonsense. And then I spend the next few months remembering and reliving it and feeling absolutely terrible!!

I have a bit of a crush on someone. I am trying to move past it but somehow it doesn’t want to leave me alone. I know it’s completely impossible and unrealistic and I’m too old and too happy and in such a good place that it’s not something I should be spending any time thinking about. Hopefully it will wear off in time because it is ridiculous. But he is very yummy so it’s quite understandable. Never mind!!

Sunday my friend E came over. We ordered two roast turkey dinners which was delicious and we had a good chat. I always feel good when I have had lots of veggies. Yummy.