Chapter 3 - One Sunday Morning
There are several reasons for scribbling this blog; friends & neighbours ask "How is she today?" to which I usually reply - better today - having a poor day - sleeping this afternoon - and the like without beginning a long rambling explanation for which I lack the verbal skills. Also the text provides ourselves with a picture of how things are because we so easily forget, even though ever since she came out of the southern clinic we keep daily notes of her meds & brief notes of pertinent events in small spiral-backed note books (the type that easily fits in the shirt pocket should I not wear T-shirts). We are now well into our 3rd notebook. But those notes, apart from our codes for the meds, are sometimes cryptic & hard to read. And every so often I enter the meds data into a spread sheet where any changes can be easily seen, such as knowing when she has been in pain by the number of pain killers taken (very few these recent days). I see people cringe at all this! I have found writing a descriptive diary like this blog forces me to make a better job of it rather than compiling private notes. One plays to an invisible audience. Is there one out there?
We have noticed a change in her behaviour following each Bowen treatment. At first she felt physically worn out immediately afterwards & during the following day, not that there was any pain, but just as if she had had a lot of exercise. More recently she needs to sleep following the treatment. This last Friday she rose about 9:00 & by 11:00 she was so tired she returned to bed to sleep till 12:30. Then again at 15:45 more sleep until I woke her at 17:00 for dinner in order for her main meal to be well clear of her evening meds.
Yesterday we drove north to be at our youngest grand-daughter's 5th birthday party. We stayed 4 hours then returned home. I don't think she slept , as she usually does when we drive somewhere, at all during either 2 hour trip. On the return trip, we pulled into a rest stop just short of one of the service centres because she expressed a need to stretch her legs. Thankfully, she lacked the horror signs shown on other trips when she was over-medicated. I parked well clear of gum trees because a storm was breaking & a few spits of rain discouraged me from jumping the barbed wire fence to grab a few apples from very old trees on an old house site. Anyway, she would have become up-tight about my daring to steal.
She says she slept well last night although a sharp back pain halfway down her spine required some rubbing at 7:30. Then she showered & returned to bed after taking her meds. I am to wake her by 9:00 so we can make church by 9:30. A special programme begins this week, "40 Days of Purpose", in which she is keen to participate. Me? Well, not so keen on another packaged process seen by some as a way to get people to come to church when the aim should be to get those already in there out & about in the world.
Time to wake her & for myself to put a few clothes over the little I have on.
We have noticed a change in her behaviour following each Bowen treatment. At first she felt physically worn out immediately afterwards & during the following day, not that there was any pain, but just as if she had had a lot of exercise. More recently she needs to sleep following the treatment. This last Friday she rose about 9:00 & by 11:00 she was so tired she returned to bed to sleep till 12:30. Then again at 15:45 more sleep until I woke her at 17:00 for dinner in order for her main meal to be well clear of her evening meds.
Yesterday we drove north to be at our youngest grand-daughter's 5th birthday party. We stayed 4 hours then returned home. I don't think she slept , as she usually does when we drive somewhere, at all during either 2 hour trip. On the return trip, we pulled into a rest stop just short of one of the service centres because she expressed a need to stretch her legs. Thankfully, she lacked the horror signs shown on other trips when she was over-medicated. I parked well clear of gum trees because a storm was breaking & a few spits of rain discouraged me from jumping the barbed wire fence to grab a few apples from very old trees on an old house site. Anyway, she would have become up-tight about my daring to steal.
She says she slept well last night although a sharp back pain halfway down her spine required some rubbing at 7:30. Then she showered & returned to bed after taking her meds. I am to wake her by 9:00 so we can make church by 9:30. A special programme begins this week, "40 Days of Purpose", in which she is keen to participate. Me? Well, not so keen on another packaged process seen by some as a way to get people to come to church when the aim should be to get those already in there out & about in the world.
Time to wake her & for myself to put a few clothes over the little I have on.
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