Sunday was a ”quiet” day for us. A sunny morning with a few snowflakes but nothing to warrant getting the snow shovel out. Still cold and according to the weather forecast likely to stay that way for the coming week. We have now had several what we call national ice days , that is 24 hours of temperatures below freezing throughout the whole of Sweden.
My normal morning routine of quietly slipping out of the bedroom early to avoid waking OH. Emptied the dishwasher from Satutrday evening, bunged a couple of cleaning tablets in and ran the cleaning programme. Just after eight got a panic shout for help from OH. Ran upstairs to discover that she’d tried to get from bed into her wheelchair and got stuck. The night bag from her ileostomy had got detached and there was a runny smelly mess of semi liquid poo in her nightie, the bed and on the floor, but luckily not in her chair. Fortunately the night bag on her urostomy was OK. Got her into her chair and into the bathroom. Dried her tears, cleaned and emptied both ostomy bags, helped her shower then back into the bedroom and put her in my side of the bed. Cleaned the floor, thank goodness we took out the fitted carpet and put in parquet flooring years before she had the ostomy surgeries. Took the soiled bedclothes off her bed, we have two 90 centimeter single beds pushed together to form a king size, remade her bed with clean matress protector, sheet, duvet and duvet cover. Downstairs with the soiled bedlinen and in the machine.
Then traipsed back up to a still very tearful OH, carried her downstairs wrapped her up sat her in her chair and wheeled her outside while I went back in and got breakfast. All of this before nine o’clock.
After breakfast watched the Sunday Good Morning show for a while before I got our coffee and we went outside to sit in the corner by the garage and get some sun. OH listened to an audio book while I fiddled around on the iPad.
Around one I realised it was probably time to get some lunch. We had half of yesterday’s lunch left so I fried a few mushrooms to add to it and we had that. Afterwards OH wanted to go out again as she said she wanted to make the most of still being able to ”see” the sun. Took the iPad with me and read some choice snippets of news to her including the reports about the first round of Swedish Song for Europe from Saturday evening. We’re obviously totally off as regards music because the song that went through to the final was about the worst load of rubbish we agreed we’d ever heard. Noticed that she was smoking more than usual which given the circumstances I could understand.
Stayed outside for a while until the sun dipped behind the trees. Once back in I got the bed linen which I’d completely forgotten about out of the washing machine and in the drying cupboard before I settled in front of the main computer and OH listened to an audio book.
After a light tea we settled in the couch and watched The Sound of Music again. We’d read that Christopher Plummer had died on Friday so OH thought it would be nice to see the film again. We’ve watched it dozens of times before, it comes up regularly on TV around Christmas and so OH remembers almost exactly the screenplay which means I don’t have to describe what’s happening and we can just listen and enjoy. Upstairs just after ten, went through the evening routine and got OH into a nice clean bed where I very soon joined her for a snuggle the night before I drive her to the hospital for her eye surgery.
