Oh dear

By Sunday morning the scraped areas at the bottom of my right hand were oozing pus and my shoulder was stiff and painful.  Philip took me to the chemist, who suggested I see a doctor and told us where to find one open on Sundays.  The doctor asked me why I hadn't gone to her yesterday, but I hadn't thought a few scrapes warranted that (even though I was feeling very sorry for myself).  Apparently an oozing wound can lead to a more dangerous infection.  I'm now well-bandaged, as you can see, and on antibiotics, and after my daughter-in-law's sister, a naturopath, gave me a treatment with a strange Russian gadget like a shaver, the name of which escapes me, I have almost normal movement back in my shoulder.


I managed to take this pic with one hand, thinking as I did of a young woman featured in a TV program after she lost BOTH arms in a terrible tractor accident.  Can you imagine anything like it? Her wonderful husband was looking after her and I hope he continues to do so.


I will attempt to back the car up the drive in a while and go to my exercise class.


Winifred, you can google absolutely anything and click on 'Images' (top left) and find any photo, drawing or cartoon you want!  That's how I found yesterday's pic (though I fell face-down not feet up as shown!!!)  And of course, I know what you mean about children - grown or otherwise - doing as we want them to!