It’s shouldn’t happen on your birthday!

One day, marks a sixty five year spell on this world. A dog sit over the weekend, one of the Cockers, and a nice meal in Henley with my near neighbours. It’s was all going so well. I don’t know what caused my malaise so it would be wrong to blame any specific thing that caused my nasty sickness bug. I don’t want to go into the details as I am sure peoples imaginations will do a good enough job. I was to have the little rascal here in our home, as I did not want his owners to have to change a bed for one night. About nine pm, we headed off to our house, before the big day tomorrow. I wasn’t feeling well, but as the Cockers owners had bought me a nice bottle of red, I decided to have a couple of glasses. I started to feel worse, so I went to bed. It did not take long had my first bout of sickness. I did not get to the loo in time, so our bedroom carpet got a big red splot on it. Even in my moment of trouble, I knew I had to clear this mess of the light coloured carpet asap. Which I did and then crawled back to bed. This cycle repeated itself, except I got to the loo on subsequent visits. The Cocker,  he looked at me, and lay by me as I said hello to the big white telephone. When I was in bed, he snuggled up to me. When I told a friend about his care for me, I got tearful. 

He loves his walks, loves playing around, but he made no demands of me, he knew I was t well the next day either. Often he lay as close as he could, until he got too hot. I told my friends of my plight, the cancelled lunch, there came offers of help, and kind advice from one neighbour who has a doctor daughter. Fluids fluids! 

The day carried on, me more bout of sickness, and then I have been free of it since midday.I decided I needed to start washing the bed linen, as it was slightly soiled. The carpet did not look too bad. Neighbours came with presents, and cards and messages. I was overcome with kindness. Some of them decided to go out and enjoy themselves and why not, I said to myself. I got some lovely biscuits, messages from around the world, tickets to go to the venue my friends went to, wine - red of course, and a lovely book from my ninety plus neighbour. ( and more )



So it was a good weekend, despite at some ghastly time of the night, lying on the bathroom floor, shivering, then hot, I only had to look behind me and see that  I wasn’t alone. Thanks everyone. Have to stop now.


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