Hi to everybody...got up early this morning as we had to go into Poole shopping and for my eye test at 11.20...at 7.30, we were both woken by a torrential downpour and wind outside...hoping really that it wasn't going to be like that all day, we went back to sleep for an hour and discovered that there was blue sky trying to come through...
We had breakfast and were ready to leave the house by 9.25 for the 9.36 or 9.49 bus...realised as soon as we got outside, yesterday's pleasant warmth had gone today and there was a really chilly wind so it was back to warm coats, hats and gloves...the bus arrived on time!! Good grief, a miracle...and we got into town, did all the shopping and hubby decided he might as well go home because there was forty minutes to wait before my eye appointment was due. I arrived there and had all my details taken prior to the appointment, which was useful and also had a three minute hearing test in which I discovered that I do have some loss of hearing but not much, and that a further full test wasn't really necessary...then I sat down to wait for my actual eye test...now, I've a problem with anything to do with medical things and waiting...once the minute ticks past the appointment time, I shoot into hyper-drive. My emotions become completely erratic and a sort of uncontrollable impatience makes me want to burst into tears as every moment passes past the time given me...Unlike other people in surgeries or opticians, I can't sit there waiting patiently...I point out when my appointment was and ask how late they're running if I'm still sitting there five minutes after it...I was told this morning that I was next in so I calmed down and tried to distract myself while I waited to be called...then the optician came out and called somebody else and I was back to hysterics internally again...I asked again...I thought I was next I said, so the woman checks and says I am but perhaps the optician had to see the other person because from a previous check up...hmmm...now I was ten minutes past my appointment...not much you say, and it's isn't, but hubby wasn't there and this happens every time I go to medical things alone and they're late in calling me in...then suddenly there's another optician calling me and I'm in...check up takes quarter of an hour, my eyes are excellent...no change in reading glasses, and minor change in left eye for tv glasses but nothing serious...and I'm off out of there like a bullet from a gun heading for the bus station with ten minutes to get the 11.55 bus home and I made it...my stomach was hurting really badly by then because I had an early breakfast and needed food again....now all's well again because I've had my lunch, but took half an hour to take the pain away...really do think I've got a damned ulcer now...so frustrating, but could have been because I got stressed out at the opticians as well...bodies are something else! They react to stimuli we don't even know we're giving out and then start doing nasty things over which we have equally no control...what we need to do is control our darned minds then maybe our bodies wouldn't feel the need to start hurting or harming us....
So, my friends, that's my morning...not an entirely bad one but I messed up my stomach and gave myself unnecessary physical pain because I couldn't control my damned emotional response to being kept waiting in the opticians...what a stupid woman I am....:-/
Have a good rest of the day and I hope the sun is shining on you, in the meantime, great big hugs to one and all...