Yesterday morning, the sun was so bright that I was awakened before 6.00am with the sun streaming through the bedroom window, but I did not mind as it is not a bad thing to have an early start to the week. I have a clutch of medical and such like appointments this week with appointments for my eyes, physio, hair and feet all on the calendar. I need also to reconnect with the dentists as well as my teeth have been neglected for the past year and possibly need to make a doctor’s appointment as well. I took the opportunity the evening before to write a long email to one of our closest friends in Spain who herself has been coping with some family problems and explained to her how I had hoped to come to Spain for a brief holiday but not for a few weeks just yet. I feel the need, to be honest, to get my new ‘post-Meg’ routines established and for my finances to stabilise a little before I go off an any new jaunts. Also the evening before, I uploaded the video speech that Meg and I gave on the occasion of our 50th wedding anniversary celebration with our Yorkshire relatives. I have given the link to one of my nephews and if this seems to work well (as the file is very large) may well do it for all of the other relatives as it does display Meg at her most fluent, speaking without notes or hesitation over seven years ago now. My son and I will probably pop around this morning to pay the undertaker’s bill for the funeral and this very act may well help to draw a line under things. In the early evenings, I have been enjoying the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 of the days play in the test match between England and India. The fact that England came within six runs of the Indian first innings total indicates how finely balanced the two two teams are. The Indian team are inexperienced but full of young talent and one of their number was pulled from a burning car some years ago and had made the most amazing recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is quite along and detailed analysis in a ‘Sky News’ report this morning that although the USA may have been successful in severely degrading or destroying some of the nuclear facilities that Iran possessed, this does not mean that the country does not have the ability to make a bomb in the future. It might well be that the desire and political will to make a nuclear device will intensify after the American strike and, of course, the world is poised to see what retaliatory measures Iran will now take. For a start, there are 30,0000-40,000 American troops at strategic locations throughout the Middle East and the Iranians may be tempted to strike at some of them. If so, we would then enter a full-scale war between USA and Iran and where that ends is unpredictable in the extreme. It is probably the case as some analyists are saying that we are entering an era of global politics in which all of the 20th century institutions to prevent war such as the UN have been deemed irrelevant and we are now entering an era redolent of the late 19th century in which ‘Might is Right’ and great powers feel free to do what they wish without any restrain. China might be encouraged to take back Taiwan for a start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I got an invoice from Worcestershire County Council which upset me greatly. The invoice was for the last tranche of Meg’s care and was for the last visits of the carers but I was billed as though for the whole of the 28 care sessions at the rate of four per day. I argued with the official that it was insensitive and upsetting to be asked to pay for the 6.5 days of care that Meg, being dead, did not receive. But I got nowhere with the official who tried to explain that as Meg had entered the last charging period, then the whole of the weeks care contributions had to be paid as the system was only set up for weekly and not for days of care. I argued and argued and pleaded but to no avail and there was no meeting of minds. I asked the official to report back up the chain that there should be a fairer charging mechanism for recipients of care who had died but she replied that when she had raised similar issues before, she had got nowhere. I left the situation requesting a revised bill (which I suspect will not be forthcoming) and a letter of apology (and I doubt this will appear either) Whatever the legalities of the situation, I am sure it is not beyond the wit of man or even a computer system to allocate costs proportionately and although the official said she was sympathetic (and I laid it on rather thickly) her hands were tied and she could not request the system to issue a revised bill. In the early afternoon, I had a physiotherapy appointment which was all rather routine. He informed that that I had some scoliosis or curvature of the spine and one leg appears to be now a little shorter than the other. Some of this may be the ageing process but most of it was caused by picking Meg off the floor some 3-4 times a day when she fell regularly in the middle part of her illness and the rest by the wheelchair pushing activities. I hope that the physiotherapist can mitigate some of the worst effects of this but it may be that my spine has received damage beyond the point of repair. But I have been given a sheet of exercises to perform and perhaps this and regular walking will help to get me back into some kind of reasonable shape. The physio was a middle aged man who seemed to know his stuff and he informed that I had been booked in for a series of five sessions at about fortnightly intervals, after which we will come to a decision whether the NHS will fund another tranche of treatment or whether I need to extend my consultations by paying privately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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