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ouble chin and swollen glands knock my hand and there s a bruise doesn t happen to tom cruise wake each morn with shoulders aching feel as if my back is breaking prostate problems hemorrhoids swellings where there once were voids teenage spots on ancient faces sagging skin in various places any day i ll start to drool they never warned of this at school see also body image from july 2022 https pollymermaid wordpress com 2022 07 08 body image comments happy new ear on 29 12 2023 by peter s pondering in about me christmas community doctors friends health new year thanks 61 comments to me it seems perfectly clear that someone s nicked part of my ear i m not hearing so good and there s oodles of blood they say twill be right by new year a belated happy christmas to everyone i do hope that you enjoyed the holiday in a way that was just perfect for you thank you to all who have asked after my health i think i have responded to everyone but some messages may be stuck in junk folders for the first time ever not only have i not been posting anything but i haven t been reading any posts either i ve had a fairly long period of health issues and this month has been full of tests and procedures with a two day hospital stay to try to stabilise my blood pressure followed by an excision of part of my right ear because of basal cell carcinoma i also had an mri scan which proved that i do indeed have a brain and it seems to be in working order i am now on my way to have my stitches out may i wish everybody a really happy and healthy new year you really are a lovely bunch i ll be back crystal clear on 14 08 2023 by peter s pondering in about me acrostic creativity drugs fact health hurt national health service personal poetry weekend writing prompt weekly prompts 51 comments this is in response to sammi cox s weekend writing prompt 324 where the given word is panacea and the word count is 44 p ainful toes a case of gout a curse to bear i m shouting out n othing compares with this dread curse a nd little helps it just gets worse c ould it be sold or passed next door e ach episode just hurts me more a lasting ease please i take daily medication to prevent the build up of uric acid crystals having previously suffered severe gout the medication is normally highly effective but for some reason i had a sudden reoccurrence over the weekend i have a backup medication for just such an occasion and i m pleased to report it worked very swiftly some things still work on 24 04 2023 by peter s pondering in about me advice doctors fact fitness health wellbeing 48 comments i was beginning to think that everything was collapsing into a heap of overworked underpaid underfunded and couldn t care less chaos and confusion but i am pleased to be proved wrong 3rd april i had a doctor s appointment ok it was not face to face but by phone the appointment lasted almost half an hour during which time arrangements were made for various follow up procedures to be carried out one of these was for a chest x ray 4 april phoned hospital to book appointment this was arranged for saturday 8 april at 12 05 8 april left home 11 20 walked 0 2 miles to bus stop 3 minutes waited 2 minutes for bus to arrive journeyed 5 3 miles to qmc queens medical centre a large teaching hospital in nottingham 18 minutes walked to qmc 3 minutes and booked into x ray reception x ray taken 6 minutes walk back to bus stop 3 minutes wait 2 minutes and catch the same bus which had been into nottingham and back 18 minutes journey back walk back home 3 minutes arrive home 12 18 total time 58 minutes that particular x ray clinician had a 5 hour shift and carried out 100 appointments contra to this good news is that one other investigative appointment has a waiting list of at least 13 weeks and another has a waiting list that they are unable to specify a waiting time for but hey i am thankful for small mercies postscript i saw the doctor again today the x ray was clear but showed an enlarged heart which i already knew mum always said i had a big heart good days bad days on 09 01 2023 08 01 2023 by peter s pondering in ageing creativity dads decline elderly fact family getting older health humour new blogs to follow poetry wellbeing 31 comments britta describes herself as a happiness blogging circus skills instructing common butterfly following german she is also a performer writer linguist who is annoyingly keen on hillwalking baking lopsided cakes and causing a ruckus she lives in scotland her chosen home habitat since the year 2000 a couple of days ago she wrote of her dad thus good days bad days this prompted me to write a little rhyme that is serious not serious and here it is there s good days and bad days and some in between some days we don t even know where we ve been as we get older the days seem to fly and no one can seem to explain how or why sometimes our strength doesn t quite last all day there s no explanation and no one to say we may need a nap or take some time out don t mention arthritis blood pressure or gout but there is no doubt it has to be said it s much better living than waking up dead counting memories peter matthews whispers and echoes on 14 12 2022 14 12 2022 by peter s pondering in about me ageing autumn christmas creativity death decline dementia elderly environment facts of life family fiction flash fiction flight friends getting older health love my life nature nostalgia philosophy poetry re posts trees wellbeing 18 comments i ve run out of fingers and toes and knots in strings and other things i ve filled lots of jotters and those will remind me of joys that life brings i ve written my name and that of my wife i ve added some things that i thought that i should i m trying my best to précis my counting memories peter matthews whispers and echoes my poem counting memories has been published on whispers and echoes today you can read it by following the link above i also had a poem and short story published concerning the last leaf on the tree these can be seen here and here compare a sorta sonnet on 16 10 2022 by peter s pondering in accountability anxiety children s comments common sense difference freedom friends health insecurity joy mums nostalgia poetry responsibility safety sonnet weekly prompts wellbeing 34 comments what s a weekend without a challenge over at suew and gc s site you can find out how to have a go and can find the links to read all the entries click on this to go there i pondered on comparing children s play in years gone by to that of today and have written a sorta sonnet playing then and now shall i compare thee to a summer s day why would you even think of that in that case will you come to play the sun s quite strong so wear a hat then so off we went with not a care and stayed out til we couldn t see our mums not bothered what or where as long as we were back for tea now i ll just let mum know where i ll be she worries if she doesn t know i m not allowed to climb a tree and must be careful where i go i pity children of today they have no freedom when they play collywobbles on 15 10 2022 16 10 2022 by peter s pondering in acrostic creativity food friends health humour insecurity needs poetry the spoken word weekend writing prompt weekly prompts 36 comments this is in response to sammi cox s weekend writing prompt 281 where the given word is collywobbles and the word count is 68 c an t stop now i have to dash o r i will be in trouble l obster lunch that i ve just had l eft me bending double y ou ll have to carry on alone w ithout my company o nce my tummy s settled down b est have a cup of tea b ut hang about let s not be rash l est my tummy has a fit e specially since i have to dash cause here it comes oh s hit posts navigation older posts to see a random example of my genius click on the x follow blog via email enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow join 1 400 other subscribers recent posts a 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