Miscellaneous Update

Aug 03, 2011 13:54

My parents have gone to Poland for a week to look after my grandmother. They drove all the way there without stopping, despite my advice, and my mother fell asleep at the wheel and nearly crashed the car, so I've been having a go at her in the hope she'll stop on the way back.

On Sunday I went to Virginia Waters, which is a lake near Windsor, with an old Birmingham person and one of his friends. We took a picnic along and sat on the lakeside, relaxing and talking. The trip itself was lovely, but it was a bit stressful because I did all the driving (and had to be responsible adult in charge of car), I also prepared part of the picnic, which was a bit scary and I didn't get as much of a rest from the gender stuff as I wanted to because the friend of a friend seemed really interested in my gender problems and wanted to talk about them most of the time. I hope that experience will make organising picnics like that a lot less stressful as time goes on.

One of the things I did make for the picnic was a couscous salad, which was surprisingly easy and very tasty. I took about 250g of dried couscous, prepared it and then added raisin, spring onions and raw red and green peppers.

I've also been taking care to flush my grandfather's catheter because the person who does it normally is away. So far I haven't killed him, which is reassuring, and I seem to be getting the hang of doing it. It worries me a lot because I have no real way of knowing whether I'm doing it properly and if I do get it wrong, granddad can die. The hygiene requirements taught to me by the nurses are also very strict and, try though I might, I can't seem to not touch some surface that isn't disinfected at some point in the whole process, especially because it's in my granddad's bedroom.

travel, family, medical, food

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