Overcast damp and cold again. Another fair night's sleep, but not long enough, although I was last to get up. By the time I surfaced at nine, relaxed thanks to yesterday's acupuncture. Owain was starting work on-line. As I ate breakfast, Kath called and chatted on her commute to work in traffic queues. Life goes on around me at the moment. I'm not feeling as poorly now as I have done the past few months, thanks to the acupuncture and change in medication routine. Am I starting to recover from the nervous exhaustion of the past three months? I hope so. Maintaining the discipline of walking a couple of hours every day as well as writing gives a loose structure to the day around which to fit domestic tasks and errands. I took most of the morning to edit a Reflection I wrote yesterday and still wasn't satisfied with. More restful sleep is at the top of my wish list, but I don't yet know how to achieve it.
I helped prepare tiny Brussels sprouts for lunch then went out for some fresh air. At the end of the morning my blood sugar was low. I needed a fruity sugar snack to clear my swimming head so I could cope with a walk in the rain up to the top of the avenue of Chestnut trees on Llandaff Fields and back. Tree surgeons have been at work again lopping branches likely to suffer wind damage. Maybe there's disease in those trees as well. The summer leaf cover has been poor for several years. I walked for forty minutes and got home late to eat. I seem to be out of sync with the rhythm of others in the household at the moment.
After eating I took today's blood thinner, and rested to see if there'd be any ill effect. Hand-eye coordination and slow recognition of what I see aren't good today. I may not lack physical energy but mental energy and focus aren't what I expect them to be. It's frustrating. Owain brought us a packet of a food supplement called 'Creatiq', composed of creatine, lion's mane - a mushroom extract, and citicoline, all substances that nourish the brain's cognitive ability, delivered in the form of a fruit gum taken four times a day. I'm willing to try anything that will improve the way I feel and perceive what's going on. I'm not yet used to my field of vision being impaired.
Owain took charge of changing our broadband service provider from TalkTalk to BT, a process that takes a few days to complete. A new router has to be installed and configured to work with all our digital devices, including the mesh wi-fi extension. We're paying for a visit from an OpenReach technician to do this with us rather than DIY trial and error. It'll cost us much the same to run thereafter as we're paying now, but the quality of service should be better. The technician is booked for 7th Jan, after we return from Kenilworth.
Owain tackled the web based switchover process with the ease of the IT communications professional he is in real life, commenting as he proceeded on the clarity and user friendliness of the site and the clarity of information delivered. I would have found difficulty getting through this task without him at the moment. I 'm finding such interactions very stressful due to visual impairment combined with and slowness in recognising and decoding what I see. Late in the afternoon he returned home to Bristol to get on with his everyday life. It's most fortunate for us that he can work from home anywhere, but I miss his presence and his calm confidence, most of the time, when he's not with us.
After supper I went out for a walk in the dark to complete my exercise goal for the day, and unavoidably tired by bed time
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