On The Island

Not a work day as I had to take laxatives before my colonoscopy scan the following day.

So, up early to walk Ellie before my first 8am dose.

Ellie’s 14th birthday!!

We thought she would enjoy Minnis Bay, we hadn’t even considered how cold it would be down there and while we were walking along the beach, it poured with rain. We all got soaked.

But Ellie enjoyed it! I think it wore her out.

Lunchtime we gave her the birthday biscuits…not all at once! And a present.

Then it was time to watch Spurs….they lost again! The consolation was my “second” team Luton Town won the Vertu Trophy at Wembley!!

Our walk was around Wingham Orchards. A lovely time of year as the bluebells are out and the blossom just starting on the apple trees.

We used our new slow cooker to cook one of the Easter joints. They are just so easy, we use them a lot. We had to cook the joint today as I have to starve for 36 hours from tomorrow night, ready for my scan. If you get hungry, you can such barley sugar. When was the last time any of us saw that?!

Nice and sunny and so we went to Kearsney. Ellie seems to enjoy going in the water again now.

A coffee sitting outside the cafe and a quick stop in Lidl to buy a large Argyranthemum plant.

Mal had to water the allotment in the afternoon and brought back the second lot of asparagus,  some broccoli and rhubarb.

What a surprise in the evening, Hammers won their game 4-0!!!!

I had an appointment with Periodontal in Faversham. not the best thing to do on a lovely sunny day.

On my last visit he said he would just check the tooth he told me to have extracted had gone and healed, then go through the pre op he was going to do and book a date.  When I went in he started by telling me that they no longer had the funding to carry out the operations in Faversham and he would have to refer me elsewhere. So, I had no need to have the other tooth extracted, I could have just waited until it worked itself loose!!

So today he spent an  hour measuring all my teeth and where they were in my gums. This took over an hour and in spite of taking pain killers before I went (just in case), it was really painful and my mouth bled a lot. I really wasn’t happy because this is not what he told me would happen today.  He then took two X rays and made a lot of notes.

When he finished all this …an hour and a quarter in the chair, I asked where we go from here. He told me to make two appointments for deep cleans and see if the gums then improved or whether he would refer me then!!! So the first appointment is September. I guess by the time that arrives, they will have stopped doing them as well!

I also warned him that I had a mouth ulcer. He asked me if I often had them. Yes, I do. He then told me I should have a blood test but they don’t have the facilities so I should ask my dentist to refer me to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.  Erm…..isn’t this where I started all those years ago?!!  Handy I am back to my dentist in Canterbury next week I guess!!

After the pain killers wore off, my mouth was so sore.  I have to say the treatment has really gone downhill from when I first started.

Over the fields with Ellie but she didn’t seem too keen. We are certain that people were feeding her at the BBQ and some of the food was spicy. Mal painted the garden wall. I asked him 2 weeks if he had the paint for when there was a nice day. Of course he said yes, come to the day and he didn’t have any….MEN!!! I wasn’t happy as I then had to drive to Westwood Cross to get some. I put some diesel in the car on the way……£196.9 a litre!!  Wow.

Mal did get round to painting the wall!

Ellie still seemed very quiet and had a lot of wind and a swollen stomach.  When Mal carried her up to bed at night she wouldn’t settle just kept going from one side of the bed to the other and kept staring at me. Eventually she barked. Mal took her downstairs and I think she emptied her bowels out in the garden. That’s one thing about Ellie she is such a clean dog, even at her age, she has to go outside on grass. Mal then decided he would sleep downstairs with her in case she needed to go again. But she slept soundly all night.

Rhys’s Birthday!

We walked over the fields with Ellie, she didn’t seem too energetic. We also watered Torin’s flowers and rose trees on the way.

At lunchtime we drove to Rhys’s for his birthday and Ollie leaving for his new job with Rick Stein BBQ.  Lou’s dad and step mum were there also (little)Torin , Lizzy and our great grandson Arlo. Also Maddie and River and of course Ollie, Oscar and Josie. May favourite photo…Rhys, “little” Torin and Arlo.

We had such a lovely day and were so lucky with the weather. It was nice to see Ollie so excited about his new venture in Cornwall working with Rick Stein.