from Pot to Boot

What an Idiot I am, I somehow missed a step and landed flat on the floor. Well not quite flat as I managed to hurt my left foot graze the knee. My palms also have graze marks and to top that off so to speak I have a graze on my face. The thing that hurts most is my dignity.

How could I miss a step, I bet it was Parky?

My big brother took me to the hospital where after the usual long wait I ended up with a pot on my left foot. Next day my daughter took me to the fracture clinic where the pot was replaced with a boot, so I look like I’m wearing a moon boot.

I asked the guy who fitted the boot would I be able to drive with it on as I have an automatic car. He said the best thing was to ring My Insurance Company.

When I got home that’s what I did to be informed that it was up to a Dr to say if I was fit to drive.

The next thing I did was phone my Doctors surgery to be told as they hadn’t seen me I had better get in touch with the hospital.

So I rang the hospital but as it was Friday there was no one there to help me.

Oh well I suppose that means I will have to be good and rest.

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Can't Blame Parky

Well I have ended up doing what I had managed to evade for seven years.

I have a Toyota Yaris with the smart unlock on it, as long as the key is in my pocket or handbag I can put my hand on the door handle and the door opens. I can then start it by pressing a button.

Many times I have taken my handbag to the car to see if the door opens instead of looking through all the compartments. If I go to the car to move it I tend to put the key in my pocket and there is where it was when I washed my trousers. I think I have known that eventually this would happen and am amazed that I have not done it before.

When I opened the washing machine door and saw it in among my cloths I thought it would be well and truly dead.  So I was well impressed when I tried it and it worked. The leather fob didn’t do the washing a lot of good but at least I had used a cool wash.

I wonder if they test keys in washing machines for idiots like me?

The thing is that although I blame most things on Parky I think this is probably all down to me. 

Yes or No to new Gadget?

A gadget that would monitor your Parkinson’s now that is well worth looking at.

Michael J Fox is looking at the possibility that smart phones or exercise bands could be used to collect data about your movements. That’s used alongside medication information, such as have you taken it and what time. It could be used by the Doctors to see how your medication is working and if the information is sent direct to him then there is no reason to worry when your pills are changed.

I’m thinking great where can I get a monitor and how do I get started, then I think hang on a minuet, who is going to collate all this information?

We definitely have a shortage of Doctors in this area, seem like Sunny Skeggy is not every ones idea of a place to live and work.

We have thousands of people who come to stay in mobile homes for holidays, many of them however stay in them for the entire time the sites are open, which could be 10 months of the year.

The emergency services struggle to cope. We have a cottage hospital that from time to time gets threatened with closure and an extremely ageing population.

It’s not just emergency services but the whole infrastructure. Can you imagine how much extra c—p is produced no wonder the aroma from the local sewerage farm leaves a lot to be desired.

I am not against the holiday makers coming in fact without them we would not be a holiday resort.

Somewhere along the line someone (I have no idea who) must see that there is a need to upgrade the basics to cope extra.

So maybe for now I won’t use a smart phone to keep track on myself in case it tells me things I really don’t want to know and then have no one to discuss it with.