Having decided on getting a cat I am surprised how much this has motivated me in my writing. I have started a blog called "Paws for Thought". I have written a short story and some poetry about cats.
So having a pet is certainly good for me.
Last night it was like having a young child in the house she whimpered in her sleep and I talked to her softly to calm her down.
She woke up this morning happy. She knows she has the run of the house and can roam wherever she wants to except outside. Not too sure how I am going to be when she is able to leave the house.
At present she likes guarding the stairs as this gives her a view of every possible line of attack from the front door, the living room, the tiny kitchen and shower room. It also means she lies in wait and is ready to claw anyone wishing to step over her she only does this in play so the claws don't really hurt she saves them for her pink catnip mouse and the scratching post.
I am so glad we chose to get a pet. Good company, amusement, and loads of writing inspiration.
Best wishes to everyone.
Sunday, 26 July 2009
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
A strange Day
I was feeling really upbeat today. I wasn't worried about my hospital appointment which was this afternoon.
We received two phone calls each containing good news. One was from the Trisha Show informing us the repeat would be on 5th August at 10.45 am.
The other was to inform us we had passed our home assessment to obtain our new pet.
Then we set off to the hospital. We found a disabled car parking space fairly easily this time. I was informed they had me down as a DNA (Did not attend) on the 15th July but as some of you know this was not true as my previous post is proof of that. So that got changed on the computer.
I had to wait 30 minutes to be seen in the clinic and then it was a barrage of questions followed by the doctor arranging various tests for me. These include sputum tests and a bronchoscopy.
I also found out that I have a gynae appointment on the 14th August I have been waiting for this since the 27th February.
So a few appointments in one go but I am not worried.
I am really positive and can't wait to get our new pet.
Best wishes to everyone.
Fee
We received two phone calls each containing good news. One was from the Trisha Show informing us the repeat would be on 5th August at 10.45 am.
The other was to inform us we had passed our home assessment to obtain our new pet.
Then we set off to the hospital. We found a disabled car parking space fairly easily this time. I was informed they had me down as a DNA (Did not attend) on the 15th July but as some of you know this was not true as my previous post is proof of that. So that got changed on the computer.
I had to wait 30 minutes to be seen in the clinic and then it was a barrage of questions followed by the doctor arranging various tests for me. These include sputum tests and a bronchoscopy.
I also found out that I have a gynae appointment on the 14th August I have been waiting for this since the 27th February.
So a few appointments in one go but I am not worried.
I am really positive and can't wait to get our new pet.
Best wishes to everyone.
Fee
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Positivity Pays Off
Knowing I had to go to hospital today to get the results of my ultrasound scan last Monday I had been worried. I decided to be positive and it worked.
We arrived at the hospital at 1.30 the appointment wasn't until 2.20pm. Trying to find a disabled parking space was extremely difficult and after 15 minutes we found one. Next we enter the automatic doors and saw a long queue for the appointments desk this took a while to negotiate and it was 2.10 pm by the time we got through that and headed off to the main waiting area where we were called by a lady wearing a purple tabbard working for the WRVS.
On arriving at the clinic area there was hardly any room for another wheelchair so we parked ourselves at the back of the waiting area out of harms way.
After a while we went to see if the space had cleared at the front of the clinic for the wheelchair to be parked. There was a space and we headed for it. It was then we discovered the waiting time 0-60 minutes by this time it was 3.10 pm. After waiting over 90 minutes we were eventually called in to see the consultant.
I don't know which is worse the worrying or the waiting around.
The lumps are in fact cysts and I have to go back again in June next year for a mammogram. So positivity does work.
This means I can look forward to the rest of the year and not worry about the other hospital appointments that loom.
So I am determined to achieve my goals in life.
Best wishes to everyone.
Fee
We arrived at the hospital at 1.30 the appointment wasn't until 2.20pm. Trying to find a disabled parking space was extremely difficult and after 15 minutes we found one. Next we enter the automatic doors and saw a long queue for the appointments desk this took a while to negotiate and it was 2.10 pm by the time we got through that and headed off to the main waiting area where we were called by a lady wearing a purple tabbard working for the WRVS.
On arriving at the clinic area there was hardly any room for another wheelchair so we parked ourselves at the back of the waiting area out of harms way.
After a while we went to see if the space had cleared at the front of the clinic for the wheelchair to be parked. There was a space and we headed for it. It was then we discovered the waiting time 0-60 minutes by this time it was 3.10 pm. After waiting over 90 minutes we were eventually called in to see the consultant.
I don't know which is worse the worrying or the waiting around.
The lumps are in fact cysts and I have to go back again in June next year for a mammogram. So positivity does work.
This means I can look forward to the rest of the year and not worry about the other hospital appointments that loom.
So I am determined to achieve my goals in life.
Best wishes to everyone.
Fee
Monday, 13 July 2009
Swings and Roundabouts
This morning and I know its only it the early stages had provided me with some good news, some not so good news but some construcvtive criticism.
Well first of all I have had two letters accepted for a magazine for the September/October edition.
I had sent an idea for an article to the same magazine and received their guidelines I was also informed that my writing style is fine. So despite the fact the article won't get published yet I will work hard on it and get somewhere I am sure. If not it is back to the drawing board to work on other ideas.
So I am happy. I now know I can write poetry that other people appreciate. I can write letters which get published locally and in the national press. Now it is just a matter of getting an article published other than on the internet.
My final goal is to get my book published so will wait and see what happens with my writing life.
I am so lucky I have found such wonderful support from Wrekin Writers and am glad I joined them.
Best wishes
Fee
Well first of all I have had two letters accepted for a magazine for the September/October edition.
I had sent an idea for an article to the same magazine and received their guidelines I was also informed that my writing style is fine. So despite the fact the article won't get published yet I will work hard on it and get somewhere I am sure. If not it is back to the drawing board to work on other ideas.
So I am happy. I now know I can write poetry that other people appreciate. I can write letters which get published locally and in the national press. Now it is just a matter of getting an article published other than on the internet.
My final goal is to get my book published so will wait and see what happens with my writing life.
I am so lucky I have found such wonderful support from Wrekin Writers and am glad I joined them.
Best wishes
Fee
Saturday, 11 July 2009
SHOPPING and why I hate it
I decided to pluck up the courage and go shopping with my husband this morning. Little did I know what was in store for me (scuse the pun).
We decided to work our ways up the aisles in order so that we would not miss anything off the list in our heads. So much for that idea. Each time we tried to go in a straight line there were trolleys left in the middle of the aisles unattended or worse large pallets of goods again left unattended in the middle of the aisles with everyone else trying to get around these obstacles.
When we go shopping we attach a trolley to the wheelchair so that I can hold on to this and it makes shopping easier rather than balancing a basket on my lap - well it normally is.
Today being a Saturday was horrendous. The number of people who hit me with their baskets as they wandered around the shop was incredible. I am now black and blue and scratched. Some realised what they had done and apologised others just carried on barging their way through the various aisles without a word.
Having got through the ordeal we went to the disabled checkout. It is the only aisle that is wide enough to take a wheelchair. There were a lot ofable bodied people who were using this in front of us so we just patiently queued. Finally we got through the checkout where the lady on the till was really helpful and aksed if I was ok. I said I would be glad to get home after the ordeal of being knocked by customers. She looked horrified when she heard how rude some people are. She enquired as we left the checkout if I was ok and to make sure I took it easy when we got home. We then headed off to the lottery counter before departing the shop.
This was nearly the last straw for me. There was a gentleman being served by a man behind the counter and the lady behind the counter called us forward as we moved forward the gentleman rushed back against the trolley causing it to tip up and whip my neck and arm back and forward in a very short space of time. I was completely shocked by this impact. The staff were shocked too. We then bought our lottery tickets and headed out to the car with the rest of the shopping.
I was just grateful the ordeal was over. Some people just don't look out for wheelchairs or their occupants and this really creates problems as the ones I have encountered today. The answer is don't go shopping on a Saturday during busy hours. Stay at home and shop online or go shopping in the early hours if at all possible. People like me should not feel intimated about shopping or be forced to go at quieter times but this is life today.
Most people when they go shopping are blinkered and just charge ahead for what they want to purchase not giving others a second thought.
So I am now looking foward to a quiet Saturday afternoon and evening in at home with my other half.
Best wishes to everyone.
Fee
We decided to work our ways up the aisles in order so that we would not miss anything off the list in our heads. So much for that idea. Each time we tried to go in a straight line there were trolleys left in the middle of the aisles unattended or worse large pallets of goods again left unattended in the middle of the aisles with everyone else trying to get around these obstacles.
When we go shopping we attach a trolley to the wheelchair so that I can hold on to this and it makes shopping easier rather than balancing a basket on my lap - well it normally is.
Today being a Saturday was horrendous. The number of people who hit me with their baskets as they wandered around the shop was incredible. I am now black and blue and scratched. Some realised what they had done and apologised others just carried on barging their way through the various aisles without a word.
Having got through the ordeal we went to the disabled checkout. It is the only aisle that is wide enough to take a wheelchair. There were a lot ofable bodied people who were using this in front of us so we just patiently queued. Finally we got through the checkout where the lady on the till was really helpful and aksed if I was ok. I said I would be glad to get home after the ordeal of being knocked by customers. She looked horrified when she heard how rude some people are. She enquired as we left the checkout if I was ok and to make sure I took it easy when we got home. We then headed off to the lottery counter before departing the shop.
This was nearly the last straw for me. There was a gentleman being served by a man behind the counter and the lady behind the counter called us forward as we moved forward the gentleman rushed back against the trolley causing it to tip up and whip my neck and arm back and forward in a very short space of time. I was completely shocked by this impact. The staff were shocked too. We then bought our lottery tickets and headed out to the car with the rest of the shopping.
I was just grateful the ordeal was over. Some people just don't look out for wheelchairs or their occupants and this really creates problems as the ones I have encountered today. The answer is don't go shopping on a Saturday during busy hours. Stay at home and shop online or go shopping in the early hours if at all possible. People like me should not feel intimated about shopping or be forced to go at quieter times but this is life today.
Most people when they go shopping are blinkered and just charge ahead for what they want to purchase not giving others a second thought.
So I am now looking foward to a quiet Saturday afternoon and evening in at home with my other half.
Best wishes to everyone.
Fee
Friday, 10 July 2009
The Joys of Planning
I am due to visit a hotel in Birmingham so decided to enquire what parking facilities they had for disabled clients. "The hotel does not have its own car park but there is an NCP car park nearby". I also noticed the hotel offered valet car parking so I enquired what this entailed £25 fee for a person to park your car and pay the £14 24 hour car parking charge in the NCP car park. £11 for someone to park your car!!!
Luckily for me my appointment is no longer than an hour and Steve has said he will drop me off and pick me up after it.
So I am glad I looked into the pros and cons of where the hotel was situated and what car parking facilities there were.
It just pays to plan ahead and work out a journey on whether something is worthwhile or not. As you can see planning is the secret to success. This applies to writing too.
Best wishes
Fee
Luckily for me my appointment is no longer than an hour and Steve has said he will drop me off and pick me up after it.
So I am glad I looked into the pros and cons of where the hotel was situated and what car parking facilities there were.
It just pays to plan ahead and work out a journey on whether something is worthwhile or not. As you can see planning is the secret to success. This applies to writing too.
Best wishes
Fee
Some Progress
I have had a few things accepted recently. Another couple of poems for PoetryStreet. One poem for Mypoetry4U a charity website which I found through PoetryStreet. So this shows the power of the internet at its best helping others.
I received my first copy of ABLE Magazine today and in it was a letter I had submitted. So how come I submitted something without reading a copy of the magazine you ask? Well its like a certain member of the writing group I attend is always saying "Get your work out there". So I did just that without much research except from finding the magazine on the internet to see what audience they targeted and that was it.
So the small progress I am making is looking like a long list for the end of the year as every piece of work submitted by email or sent out by post is another small success. It is even more of a success if it gets published.
I just wish I didn't worry so much.
Best wishes and good luck to everyone on a writing journey.
Congratulations to Chris Owens on winning a competition.
Take care of yourselves
Fee
I received my first copy of ABLE Magazine today and in it was a letter I had submitted. So how come I submitted something without reading a copy of the magazine you ask? Well its like a certain member of the writing group I attend is always saying "Get your work out there". So I did just that without much research except from finding the magazine on the internet to see what audience they targeted and that was it.
So the small progress I am making is looking like a long list for the end of the year as every piece of work submitted by email or sent out by post is another small success. It is even more of a success if it gets published.
I just wish I didn't worry so much.
Best wishes and good luck to everyone on a writing journey.
Congratulations to Chris Owens on winning a competition.
Take care of yourselves
Fee
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