Deaf Carer

This month is about helping to get carers more active.  There's very little time in our day for exercise which in turn impacts our health, the obvious being weight gain but also injury and poor muscle tone.  Exercise is also reportedly good for mental health, although there are swings and round abouts with that as it can also make it worse. I have yet to try any of the classes from carers Uk as I've realised that by the time I've read the subtitles and attempted it they've moved on to something else. There is one class I really want to participate in although it straddles med times here so again it will be a catch up but more about that later. My kit arrived yesterday, I'd actually forgotten about it as they were being sent out weeks ago.  Although I did wonder what that DPD parcel was as I couldn't remember ordering anything but I didn't recognise the parcel name either.   What was in the kit? A bag, love the bag it's lightweight and I can fit my clothe...

I regularly get ear infections and I try my best to let them run their course without requiring medical intervention.  Unfortunately this time the preauricular sinus infection is severe.  It means that most of my face is swollen.  It's extremely painful and I'm really struggling with pain and tiredness. I've got some high dose antibiotics and I'm taking what painkillers I can.  However due to the swelling I'm not managing to sleep because I can't have pressure anywhere near my face/ears.   It's definitely impacting the way in which I can care.  I appear to be almost completely deaf rather than just hard of hearing.  The infection is on the side I have marginally better hearing so there's nothing I can do but lipread.  Although to be honest because of masks I'm finding I haven't a clue what is going on.   I've discovered that I can't understand what is needed in the same way as when I'm 100%, I'm getting more and more things wrong ...