No Borg today

It seems that I won't be assimilated today as there is a slight hitch on the Borg Mother Ship. It seems that the particular bit of technology needed to carry out the job is dead as a dodo.

Boy Child tells me that he hasn't used it for so long that the battery is kernackered. Ah well, I was quite looking forward to that. Sometime in the future, I guess.

Surprised Herself last night. Gave her quite a shock, as a matter of fact. There she was, laid beside me, reading her book, when I said "Hey Lass, I can breathe!" Quick as a flash, she was out of bed and over to my dressing table and back to me with my salbutamol inhaler in hand!

Good girl, except that she'd not heard properly, had she?

For most of the day, I'd had a gorilla sitting on my chest, so, when I crawled off to me pit, I took me painkillers and other stuff, plus the inhalers - the preventers - the old one (Combivent) and the new one (I can't remember the name, but it dispenses a puff of powder by means of a fan when I inhale).

This latter seems to be doing wonders, but the effect is short lasting. I laid down, trying to reduce the need to breathe (one gets used to this breathing lark after nearly 70 years) and must have dropped off as the pain killers kicked in.

That's when I woke with the revellation that I could breathe unhindered!!

This was not to last long, as I awoke again at about 1.30. The gorilla had returned and was suffocating me again. I helped myself to a couple of puffs and laid back down, but the combination of the shit on my chest and the salbutamol trying to get rid of it, I wasn't very happy.

At least, I was able to take in enough air to permit a good, healthy, choking coughing fit!

I laid awake, debating whether to ask the Dear Lady Wife to make the call again, so that the nice man in the nice green suit could come along and force feed me with some of that magic vapour, when I sudden cough erupted, and I managed to breathe.

Then it was time to get up, so me normal tablets and me puffers, including the magic powder. As I type, I'm not feeling as dizzy as before, but just a little light headed - and we got cold, wet, gusty winds outside!!!!!