Sums, sweat, snot, sleep and sawing
Sep. 27th, 2013 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheWe're having big work done on the house. Big work. Huge. HUGE work. New dormer attic conversion thingy with shower room, little WC tucked in at the end of the back bedroom on the first floor, downstairs two rooms knocked together to interconnect with a wide folding door, new floors, dining room window replaced with a glass door to the back garden, chimney breasts turned into storage alcoves... we're at the end of week six of twelve and have cleaned up most of the plaster dust and brick dust, but now there's sawdust everywhere, because we had to design the stairs ourselves so that they'd fit and meet regs, and the carpenter has been routing the strings today. Also we're discovering things we need to get repaired in the house before the new floors and ceilings go in as they'll be way harder later. Trivial things like... the drains leading to the sewer. Yeah.
I'm having night sweats.
Oh! I didn't have a stroke! I had a migraine that paralysed me on one side. That was nice. I went in a slow ambulance, not like the one that brought Astrid to hospital when she wasn't breathing. I don't think it even had lights flashing. Just a big bus. After about three hours sensation returned and the stroke nurse said I hadn't had a stroke. So that was good.
I think the night sweats are related to rheumatism but they could just be the cold virus we all have; our chests are goopy and our throats are sore and our tempers are very very short.
Everyone around me is asleep. The children are coping remarkably well with the building work. It helps enormously that we all like the builders and that they are seeing the progress as it happens rather than being startled by any changes. I slept before 6pm this evening so I'm still awake now. Usually I'm still awake now because I'm fretting, but not tonight.
WAIT til you SEE my LOVELY new HOUSE. I know one of the big pluses of this one when we moved in was that it was ready to live in, but we really didn't put our own stamp on it at all. Now? OH we so are.
I'm having night sweats.
Oh! I didn't have a stroke! I had a migraine that paralysed me on one side. That was nice. I went in a slow ambulance, not like the one that brought Astrid to hospital when she wasn't breathing. I don't think it even had lights flashing. Just a big bus. After about three hours sensation returned and the stroke nurse said I hadn't had a stroke. So that was good.
I think the night sweats are related to rheumatism but they could just be the cold virus we all have; our chests are goopy and our throats are sore and our tempers are very very short.
Everyone around me is asleep. The children are coping remarkably well with the building work. It helps enormously that we all like the builders and that they are seeing the progress as it happens rather than being startled by any changes. I slept before 6pm this evening so I'm still awake now. Usually I'm still awake now because I'm fretting, but not tonight.
WAIT til you SEE my LOVELY new HOUSE. I know one of the big pluses of this one when we moved in was that it was ready to live in, but we really didn't put our own stamp on it at all. Now? OH we so are.