Julia – looking sophisticated in Bakewell

It’s not been a productive week. I’m finding it surprisingly hard to concentrate while Julia is recovering. It’s not a quick or easy process. Each morning I have to check the wound in her neck. It’s sore and swollen and tends to weep a bit, so it’s always difficult to tell if there’s a problem. On Tuesday shr had to go back to hospital and have it looked at.

The fresh bleeding that had started overnight was judged to be harmless after they had cleaned her up and prodded her about. She emerged from hospital after six hours, with clean dressings, another course of antibiotics and the promise of seeing a specialist to do more checking on the wound. It clearly isn’t healing. She is in pain, can’t sleep and is very tired all the time. She is also worried. So am I. It would be a lot easier if it was something I could bind or push or pitch, but it isn’t and all I can do is wait and worry about my inability to help.

Julia with Peter rabbit

I am doing my best to be upbeat, encouraging and to feed her lots of spinach. That’s all I can think of. Fortunately we have a bag of frozen spinach which I bought by accident. I thought it was fresh and would last us a week. It turned out to be frozen and has lasted us a month as I’ve gradually worked it into stews and curries.

We had Cajun inspired rice tonight. Rice is good because people with a three inch gash across their neck don’t enjoy too much chewing. Actually, due to a lack of spices it ended up as Cajun uninspired rice. It had sausages and prawns, peppers, peas, onions, mushrooms and tomatoes with garlic, cumin and chilli. It’ll do. I’ve ordered some Cajun seasoning with the grocery delivery and will see what happens next week.

Julia – not looking sophisticated in Bakewell – Coconut macaroons and hilarity in Bakewell