Sorry – it’s been an exhausting week! Wednesday was fun, we went outside in the morning and then had lunch outside too.
Came back in briefly and there was a lady with a load of beauty products, most of them had their feet soaked in water with peppermint or lemon balm crystals in, then sprayed with a spray of the same smell! The combination of all the cosmetics set off one of my coughing & wheezing attacks. Unfortunately mum had my inhaler and she’d just gone shopping so I pounced on her when she returned 😆 and that got it under control quickly. However, because of that I made sure I had it on me on Friday which was very lucky, which I’ll explain in a minute.
On Friday we started off by playing a ball game, we all sat in a circle (well, more a rectangle!) and had to throw the ball to each other, saying the name of the person we were throwing to. Then we played a version of follow my leader, where you sent one person out of the room, picked a leader then brought the person you sent out back and they had to guess who the leader was. We finished with a game of wink wink murder, where again you send someone out of the room, then you pick a murderer and bring the person back. The \”murderer\” winks at people and if they wink at you you have to die. The person you sent out has to guess who the murderer is!
After that Sonia wanted to go into the light room and so did a few others, so I took them down (they have to have someone there to supervise) and spent the rest of the morning yelling at Daniel to behave, Sonia to ignore him and both of them to be quiet 😆 I got them all fairly quiet, then someone came in to say it was lunchtime. I had quite a crowd by then! It’s a fairly small room, only designed for a few people (about 4?) and there were 4 on the water bed alone! Tight fit – they were lying over the width rather than length and even then the end ones were almost falling off.
Lunch was a BBQ, the afternoon was a disco. There were balloons and what not, great fun! I got a bit breathless and took my inhaler, didn’t seem to do anything but I just shrugged it off, thinking/hoping it would just go away 😳 (I know, bad girl). Anyway, it got progressively worse until I couldn’t stand it any longer and I started to go and find someone, only I ground to a halt mid way 😆 Tis a bit fuzzy – there was a worker called John who’d been playing with the balloons with a group of us, I remember him coming up and saying \”V, are you ok?\” and lots of people round me and then I was in the kitchen (nearest room to my stopping place) with him sitting on a chair on my right and one of the other adults on my left. Oh, and me thinking \”I don’t wanna go to hospital!\” All I could do was lie there with my eyes closed, till it got a lot better.
It was ok, got it back under control eventually. It was incredibly scary though – it’s very difficult to describe and impossible to imagine, but everything below my neck (or possibly chest – can’t remember) went very heavy, as if it was lead, and numb. Acute pins and needles everywhere, I literally couldn’t move anything. My right hand (which is my electric chair’s joystick controller – handy!) was clenched and no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t get it to move. Couldn’t move anything below my neck. As well as being very numb and heavy it felt as if something was pushing down (or possibly sucking the air out) of everything. Cos of the lack of oxygen it made me very dizzy which in turn made me feel sick and feel faint. Add the elephant which had taken up residence sitting on my chest and all was good!
I panicked everyone rather 😳 but the lady who was with me as well as John said at least I got her out of the cleaning 😆
I feel absolutely awful today and still rather scared incase it happens again! The worst I’ve got to before is pins and needles in my arms, obviously tight chest but not to that degree. Mad thing is I’m not asthmatic…
I’m also incredibly tired from such a busy week which doesn’t help. Luckily all is fairly quiet over here for a while. Might go up to Seaton next week and Robert is coming on Thursday, then nothing. Selworthy go back to school on 6th September (in theory – they’re putting new classrooms up and I hope they’ll be finished in time – t’was a bit ambitious to do all 3, taking them down and putting new ones up, in 5-6 weeks) and I hope to go up and see them some time in that first week, then except for if I go up again nothing till college on 15th September.
And this is now incredibly long so I shall be off!
