Louisiana linguine

After yesterday, I’m pleased to say mum has been much better today. Of course, mum’s memory being what it is, she was really only aware that she didn’t feel well, and couldn’t appreciate that her being up and eating was a drastic improvement over how she was yesterday.

Also today, I had a visit from a member of the local clinical team who specialises in pain management. I won’t say too much, as to would be pretty easy to identify him from the details I’ve given about myself, but I’m not entirely convinced it gave me anything much useful about managing my pain.

What he did give me were some physio exercises to help improve my mobility, which is more than I’ve had since I got home from rehab in December last year, so that’s a small win. If I didn’t warm to the bloke personally, thanks to some dubious anecdotes he shared with great enthusiasm, then that’s no big deal in the circumstances.

That done, I was left with the rest of the day to walk around in the haze of exhaustion that’s been hovering since the moment I woke up. I’m hoping it’s better tomorrow as mum decided to experiment with a small amount (and I’m impressed that she genuinely limited it to a small amount) of coffee ice cream, and I have no idea how it’s going to affect her. We’ll see.

Dinner was one of my favourite Simply Cook recipes, Louisiana linguine, a slightly spicy, creamy¹ pasta dish which I made with prawns instead of the chicken in the recipe. I loved it, mum was ambivalent but ate it, and that’s a win as far as I’m concerned.

Now it’s chocolate and Sims until what I consider to be a suitable time to go to sleep, which isn’t the same time as mum considers suitable so I get half an hour or so of peace every evening. It’s the little things.

1. Soya cream, not dairy, as I didn’t want to push it with mum’s lactose tolerance. ↩︎