Monday I’d set my alarm early for London but having woken with an even more itchy, rashy face with added puffy eyes I decided London was not going to happen after all. Quite apart from not wanting to be out in public I thought the heat and contact with all sorts of other potential allergens wasn’t worth it. Fortunately Davies and Scarlett were fine about it and quite happy to be home for the day instead.
Scarlett was quite upset at the sight of me and wanted me to go to the doctors. I don’t remember the last time I used a doctor so I pacifed her with going to Boots to talk to the pharmacist instead. I’d already taken some Clarityn antihistime that wasn’t making any discernable difference. I’m sure doctor google is really unhelpful to the medical profession generally but to someone like me who is pretty un-hysterical and tends to think the best rather than the worst, particularly where minor ailments are concerned I think some common sense and the internet can be reassuring and helpful rather than heading off to the gp every time you sneeze. And infact the pharmacist didn’t have anything to add to what I’d already been thinking / doing.
We had a fairly quiet at-home day with Scarlett giving the ducklings plenty of outside time and me staying inside, away from the sunshine applying cold flannels to my eyes and face. Davies and I caught up on Doctor Who and I watched the final Lost having recorded it at 5am that morning.
I can’t really remember a lot more about the day now.
Tuesday I was up early again as I had to do the sheep and we had planned to visit a new friend on their boat (20 miles in the opposite direction to the 10 miles away from home where the sheep are). I’d been debating cancelling both as my eyes were still really puffy and the rash on my face no better. I managed to get an 830 doctors appointment though so Ady dashed off to do a local competitior shop and then came home to stay with Davies and Scarlett while I nipped across the road to the doctors. Aside from diagnosing an allergic reaction and suggesting antihistimine he was unable to help 🙁 The prescription he gave me was cheaper over the counter at the chemist so I called in and bought some, came home and took one and decided to carry on with my day behind sunglasses.
The rest of the day can be seen over at Monster & Teeny as I did manage to do my photoblog day.
Bits that didn’t make it there were just how cool Helen’s boat is. They have a boat and a campervan and spent the summer sailing and the winter campervanning somewhere in Europe. We know nothing about sailing and I suspect it wouldn’t be our dream but I am certainly envious of the freedom of their lifestyle. Scarlett gets on really well with Abigail and they have an older daughter Alex who we’ll meet in a couple of weeks when we have arranged to meet up again.
Swimming was hellish for me – it was incredibly dry and hot in the spectators area which made me feel my face was on fire, I couldn’t wear sunglasses so felt really conspicuous and disfigured and was pissed off I couldn’t swim again as I was in the mood for swimming but thought chemicals in my eyes and on my face would be a really bad idea. The kids did well though, Davies had his lesson in the big pool and did well, I suspect he’ll be moved up next term into the big pool which will be great for him. The swimming at our pool system is Swimmers A (non Swimmers), Swimmers B (which both kids are currently, although Davies is in a more advanced group than Scarlett), Swimmers C from which you can go into Rookie Lifeguards, Swimmers D (working on technique and stamina) or the Worthing swimming club (which enter competitions). Davies would love to do Rookie lifeguards so if he does go up to Swimmers C next term he is a big step closer to that :). And he might even end up with a lesson at the same time as Scarlett, which would be good :).
Everyone else watched Avatar in the evening. I hung around for the first 20 minutes or so but it utterly failed to grab my attention so I gave up and went and had a bath instead. The rest is in the photoblog.
C has been watching Avatar bit by bit – I couldn’t get into it either.
Comment by Alison — 26 May 2010 @ 4:32 pm
Like the photoblog. That’s the only blog of yours I don’t normally read ( much more interesting here) but maybe I should. Hope face is better soon, sounds horrible. I’m sure Bob once needed a 4 day course of oral steroids for something triggered beside river Ely. Obv we weren’t at our own doctors but after two visits to a local dr it was offered and worked like magic. He’s never had it since. Although he won’t go back to Ely!
Comment by Joyce — 26 May 2010 @ 10:09 pm
Dreadful film. Took me five sittings to get through it.
Comment by Chris — 28 May 2010 @ 8:19 pm