Outside my bedroom window, it is a balmy twenty four degrees. Both windows are wide open, but fail to catch even the merest cooling breeze. I lay there, eyelids heavy, tired, feeling like death, my body aching and in dire need of rest. I had been dozing, my mind drifting thankfully into that subconscious state it craves if only to blot out the aches and pains in my bones. I stare at the opposite wall. How I hate that wallpaper! A dog barks, a small dog by the sounds of it for its a ‘yap’ rather than a bark.
My body feels every bump and lump in both pillow and mattress. I turn over on my side, trying to find comfort. Someone outside laughs out loud, a raucous laugh. I wish I could swop places with the person laughing, for that is the last thing I feel like doing. Slowly I begin to doze again, my mind drifting off into some whirling thought, anything to take me away from where I am. Suddenly there is a scream. A girls scream, not far away from my window. A man shouts some unintelligible word out loud. The girl screams again. I resist the urge to get up and go over to peer out of the window and scream out loud myself. I simply think to myself, as I always do whenever someone screams outside,
‘It’s to be hoped that they are never being murdered, because no one will ever go to investigate, seeing as we are all so used to listening to screams all day!’ and I abandon all hope of respite and go off to the kitchen and make a cup of tea.
TG
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I really do feel for you that you are feeling so wretched and uncomfortable. Hopefully you will have a couple of good days before the cycle starts again.
Thanks Anne and Pen. I am okay now, for me it just lasts a few days, usually the Sunday and Monday following Chemo on the Thursday. Then I slowly become myself once more. This blog post was of course about Monday when we had the heatwave outside and it was 24%. Normally I would have been out and about in it. It will all pass, and next year, It’ll be like a bad dream……….
I think we hear the same yapping dog, does it start early mornng and go on for ages?
Yes! We have one round the front and another one round the back! I find the ‘yapping’ harder to tolerate than a deep bark funnily enough!
We have one next door as well, they drive me mad! I hate yapping, they seem to let it out and go back to bed dont they?
Crying wolf is a pet peeve … hope you’re feeling better today TG xxx
Yes, DP, crying wolf! That’s a good description. I am feeling much better now thanks.
would make a great opening to a book.
hope you are now rested
What? Me laying there gazing at the wallpaper wishing that kids and dogs would all disappear? LOL
I hope you’re on the ‘up’ TG, and that the noise factor has toned down and enabled sleep.
{{{hugs}}} xPenx
I am on the up Pen thanks. Got better as the week has worn on.