07 Monday Apr 2025
Another year and my girl is just as sparkly and kittenish as ever. This is her on my lap Saturday evening (quick shot, bad lighting).. I’m still recuperating from my whatever it is and Morcilla is staying close by.
Happy birthday darling girl! 🎉💛🐈⬛
Morcilla shares her birthday with my beloved Azar, born 18 years apart.
05 Saturday Apr 2025
Posted in casa azahar, cats, caturday, home, sevilla
03 Thursday Apr 2025
Posted in casa azahar, home, television
Just finished watching this mini-series (Apple TV) and my goodness it was wonderful. Excellent cast. Why can’t all tv be this good? What have you been watching?
02 Wednesday Apr 2025
Posted in casa azahar, health, home, sevilla
What a week. A whole seven days of being so sick I’ve barely been able to eat. By the time I got to Sunday I was feeling very weak and decided I had to start force-feeding myself or I wasn’t going to get better. This is my entire food intake since last Thursday (last proper meal).
Friday – piece of toast with honey (unfinished)
Saturday – bowl of shredded wheat cereal (unfinished)
Sunday – cooked ham on toast
Monday – cooked ham on toast
Tuesday – grilled cheese sandwich (brunch), bowl of mashed potatoes (early dinner)
Wednesday – scrambled egg sandwich (brunch), air-fried potatoes with melted cheese (early dinner)
Well okay, aside from this I drank a bottle of lemonade over Friday-Saturday and there were a couple of late night yoghurts (can’t remember exactly when). And I kept drinking water. So at least I was staying hydrated.
Anyhow, tomorrow I am determined to have a vegetable! I mean one that isn’t a potato. Because this food aversion has just been weird. I feel a bit better than over the weekend but still feeling far from okay, even with the meds I got on Monday. But at least today and yesterday I’ve been able to stay vertical most of the day and didn’t go to bed at 6.30 pm. Progress!
31 Monday Mar 2025
Posted in casa azahar, health, hospitals
What started last week as a sore throat seemed to be another of “those things” going around. I’d had almost identical symptoms last December just before Christmas. Both then and now repeated Covid-Flu tests have come back negative so I didn’t think too much about it. Turns out I should have been staying home! I was out for a rather glorious lunch at Restaurante Limón on Thursday, invited by the PR at five-star Don Ramón Hotel, and felt okay when I got there. But by the time lunch was over I was feeling decidedly not okay and, after getting home, it was all I could to do shower and put myself to bed. And well, I’ve been there ever since. Other than a trip to emergency today.
It was truly bizarre going from having such mild symptoms to becoming bedridden within a couple of hours. The scariest symptom is that since Saturday my vision started going wonky, but really they are all very worrying and unpleasant (I brought a written list of them with me to the hospital). Anyhow, I have a an assortment of meds now, so hopefully they will have the desired effect.
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