Woke as one of the girls was taking my temperature in my ear. Had breakfast, had asked for tea and biscuits. Biscuits were nice, but, tea with no milk ! Did hair and teeth. 2 women came in to give me a bed bath. Can’t wait to be able to get up and wash my own arse !
Contemplated scenery. There was a large window, could see nearly the whole of Torrevieja salt lake. Big flocks of swallows flying about, 5 or 6 birds of prey way up high. Saw a UFO, was probably a plane! Just outside the hospital was a palm tree which looked strangely like the Predator ! The whole view was spoiled by a huge electricity pylon and street lights.
Mum phoned, talked about getting back to England, can’t stay in Spain on my own. It’s 2 hours by plane, but, probably won’t be able to fly. It’s 3 days by train though. Would have to talk to the doctor about it. My Aunty, who’s 92, phoned had a nice chat.
Lunch came. Had ordered, chicken salad and grilled sole. The chicken salad was OK, fresh salad, chicken was a bit dry, but healthy. This is the type of stuff they should be giving us! The fish on the other hand was completely mank !! It was green !! Obviously boiled, not grilled. How the f*$£ they’d managed this, I don’t know. I couldn’t deliberately cook this badly !! The vegetables that went with it were boiled beyond all recognition !
Later, my mate S phoned. Rested some more, hard work all this absolute rest ! Needed to take a dump again, waited till after dinner this time.
Dinner came. “Sopa maravilla”, roughly translated as soup of wonders. Exactly the same as yesterday’s chicken soup ! Hold your breath and down the hatch ! Then ham “flamenquines”, (mince wrapped in ham, battered and fried) these were actually very nice ! The accompanying vegetables were mank.
Af ter dinner called for the shit bucket, found out what it was actually called: “la cuña”. Better than “el cubo de cagar”! Set up a better system this time. Put the side bars up (checked they could hold my weight first, didn’t want to end up with a broken neck as well!). Broke off some pieces of toilet roll. Took off my pajama. Put my bad leg on some pillows. Put a sheet of absorbent paper down, the cuña on top, and another sheet on top of that. Using the bars on one side lifted my self over it with 1 arm and my good leg, leaving my right arm free. Then proceeded to take a shit ! Was quite a strange site looking in the reflection in the window ! The faeces fell on the paper over the bucket as planned. When I finished, wiped my arse, wrapped up everything in the paper and pushed it into the bucket. Perfect! Was knackered though!
My lovely redhead, P, came with the heparin injection, rested, supper came. Asked for tea with milk, got a cup of hot milk with a teabag in it! What do you have to do to get a descent cuppa tea around here!
Had a long kip, woke up, did some writing. My bandaged leg started itching like mad, driving me mental! Can’t wait to get this bloody thing off! Crashed again after a long while.
Tags: bed pan, bed shit, birds of prey, flamenquines, heparin, itching, mank, scenery, shitting, swallows, tea, The Predator, Torrevieja, UFO
December 19, 2007 at 12:31 pm
new post please