littlekiwi
I charge by the hour for anything before noon
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I'd rather not repeat in a hurry!
Had to get my COVID vaccine yesterday and by the time I was able to head out no one local was doing it which was fine. Struggled down my stairs and up up our 50m long driveway to wait for a taxi. Ended up taking taxi to a chemist/pharmacy two suburbs away that was open later and doing it there. After that I rested, mum went and picked up some Subway for us both and we grabbed a taxi back to the local bus station. We ate our subway then went to catch our local bus that goes right past our house but didn’t quite get the timings right so didn’t make it. On to ‘plan b’ - catching a different bus and then connecting to the local bus at the other end. I think I felt every last bump along the trip! When we got to where we needed to do the bus transfer the next bus was like 2 mins away if that and I had just run out of steam. Originally mum was going to pop into the grocery store while I waited at the bus stop then grab the one taxi around but by the time she was finished it was gone. So we waited for the next bus, we were the only ones on the bus as per usual so got dropped off outside our driveway. Then the ‘fun’ began…..struggled for 2 hours to get down my driveway, using a variety of things to help. I already was using a walking stick temporarily but my body was so fatigued by this point it wasn’t effective at all. Used a dining room chair, wheeled rubbish bin and the most effective….an office chair on wheels to push myself with help down the driveway. I was still super exhausted and it had been a mission to get down the stairs so I knew getting up them wouldn’t be easy plus I’d had a couple of vertigo episodes too. I tried and tried. By this time it was super late so we called for help and waited. A single paramedic came after about half an hour and of course after he got me up the stairs, he needed to do my blood pressure and pulse. Both were extremely raised and he was concerned from a professional standpoint. He gave me two options, rest for 20 mins lying down and redo the tests or take me to hospital for observation. Now I’ve never had blood pressure and pulse issues so of course this was concerning. I rested as ordered and drank 500mls of water. He retested and both vital signs were normal again. At nearly 2am, I was finally in my own bed and able to rest my weary body after leaving the house just after 4pm and struggling down our driveway from 9.30pm roughly. Apart from feeling really sore I feel ok today and will just be resting for a few days I think - A good excuse to do some scrapbooking me thinks!
Had to get my COVID vaccine yesterday and by the time I was able to head out no one local was doing it which was fine. Struggled down my stairs and up up our 50m long driveway to wait for a taxi. Ended up taking taxi to a chemist/pharmacy two suburbs away that was open later and doing it there. After that I rested, mum went and picked up some Subway for us both and we grabbed a taxi back to the local bus station. We ate our subway then went to catch our local bus that goes right past our house but didn’t quite get the timings right so didn’t make it. On to ‘plan b’ - catching a different bus and then connecting to the local bus at the other end. I think I felt every last bump along the trip! When we got to where we needed to do the bus transfer the next bus was like 2 mins away if that and I had just run out of steam. Originally mum was going to pop into the grocery store while I waited at the bus stop then grab the one taxi around but by the time she was finished it was gone. So we waited for the next bus, we were the only ones on the bus as per usual so got dropped off outside our driveway. Then the ‘fun’ began…..struggled for 2 hours to get down my driveway, using a variety of things to help. I already was using a walking stick temporarily but my body was so fatigued by this point it wasn’t effective at all. Used a dining room chair, wheeled rubbish bin and the most effective….an office chair on wheels to push myself with help down the driveway. I was still super exhausted and it had been a mission to get down the stairs so I knew getting up them wouldn’t be easy plus I’d had a couple of vertigo episodes too. I tried and tried. By this time it was super late so we called for help and waited. A single paramedic came after about half an hour and of course after he got me up the stairs, he needed to do my blood pressure and pulse. Both were extremely raised and he was concerned from a professional standpoint. He gave me two options, rest for 20 mins lying down and redo the tests or take me to hospital for observation. Now I’ve never had blood pressure and pulse issues so of course this was concerning. I rested as ordered and drank 500mls of water. He retested and both vital signs were normal again. At nearly 2am, I was finally in my own bed and able to rest my weary body after leaving the house just after 4pm and struggling down our driveway from 9.30pm roughly. Apart from feeling really sore I feel ok today and will just be resting for a few days I think - A good excuse to do some scrapbooking me thinks!
