John Burke's a-Musings

1 October 2025. Yesterday was the first redressing of the legs after going back into compression. It removed 90% of the slough / dead skin ...

27 August 2025. I'm still having bother with the legs. One leg itching like mad and the other leg so sore it's driving *me* mad... t...

5 August 2025. Just back from another excursion to the District Nurses. My usual nurse wasn't there again today but I'd seen the st...

19 July 2025. I missed a couple of days here. Nothing much amiss, just adjusting back to home life and trying to cope with what seems like ...

Sunday 13 July 2025. After all the drama of the past few days, yesterday was a sit down in front of the telly and catch up on such gems as S...

Thursday 10 July 2025. So yesterday was my first full day at home. I had so much to do: seemingly a thousand boxes of pills to sort out and ...

Tuesday 8 July 2025. It's going to be a bit of an emotional roller coaster again, sorry but bare with me... It started first thing in ...

Monday 7 July 2025 - the bits missing from the last entry, unless they contradict anything in which case who knows when I'm writing abou...

Sunday 6 July 2025. Six o'clock in the morning. First pill arrived half an hour ago. Another 11 due with breakfast and then sporadicall...

Saturday 5 July 2025. It's weekend. Usually that means fewer staff but yesterday they were running on low numbers anyway. Our usual tabl...