Update

Update

Autobiographical update: this week has been eventful. I have had a visit to the dentist, not usually a happy event. I was however  most moved by the kindness shown to me and the care and solicitude for my needs. The dentist even offered to come to my home if I needed such. I still have teeth, though largely unoccupied.

Then the visit to the optician which was not as scary as it could have been. I was all prepared for some small difference owing to my  condition which was not treatable. There were however no problems. My fears and emotional response  to the thought of these two excursions proved to be unfounded.

Then came the visit of the physiotherapist. She brought a machine to assist my coughing. Coughing is a problem because my lung capacity is reduced because the muscles which allow the inflation and deflation do not work efficiently. I already have a ventilator for use when I am asleep to enable carbon dioxide to be blown out. This  new machine delivers a powerful blast of air, as I breathe in and then, a vacuum to suck the air out. This assists my ability to cough and clear foreign material from my lungs. It seems to work so far.

So after all that, I can see and breathe and so

writing this I permit myself a rueful smile and remember: sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything and of course, all the worlds a stage. Thank you Jaques! and now I will go and watch the cricket.

JL April 28. 11:39