Timmargh’s mini adventures 
5
Me and the carer nipped to Sainsburys on Friday night to do a spot of grocery shopping. I bought myself a new top and one of those eye-mask-things you get on long-haul flights — more on that in a moment. I also played silly buggers taking “amusing” pictures of myself as I trundled around the store — see if you can spot me:
About the eye-mask-thing: my eyes don’t close fully when I’m asleep and consequently they’re sore in the morning, having dried out in the night, and I literally have to push my eyelids down with my fingers and roll my eyes around for thirty seconds or so before I can even open them. I’ve been recommended to try some “artificial tears” or similar eye drops but I’m paranoid about things going into my eye and can never hold them open with the knowledge that something’s about to drop into them. So, when I spotted the eye-mask-thing on the shelf in the supermarket I bought it. The first night didn’t seem much different to a normal night but I figured I’d made the strap too loose, so on the second night I tightened it and felt much better in the morning — my eyes weren’t as dry as they usually are and they felt much, much better. The only disadvantage was that it seemed ten times brighter than normal when I took the mask off, but that’s much easier to live with than eyes-dried-up-overnight-because-they-don’t-close-properly syndrome.
On Saturday afternoon me, Billy and Marcus (I have two friends!) went on a jaunt to Merry Hill shopping centre — they wanted to stop by Decathlon, a sports shop, and I needed to pick up some card and a set of darts. It was the first time Marcus had been out with me in my new chair and, as soon as we got out of the car, he walked around behind my chair to grab the (non-existent) handles. He also found it slightly weird to be able to walk alongside me and actually hear what I was saying — he didn’t say if it was an improvement or not …
We needed to go up to the upper floor of the sports shop and so had to use the lift (neither of them seemed too keen to carry me up the stairs). The lift was rather cramped to say the least and was literally the size of my chair with about twelve inches to spare on each side and front and back. Marcus had to stand on the back of my chair to press the up/down button (which had to be held down for the lift to move) and there were only sides on the lift car, no front or back and no roof. I’ve never really worried about being stuck in a lift before but this time I was, to put it mildly, shitting bricks.
And then today me and the carer made our second supermarket trip in four days only this time we went to Morrisons. I quickly discovered the difference between Sainsburys and Morrisons in our town with the former being rather large with plenty of space for me to whizz around and have fun, and the latter being much smaller and even causing me to use a lower speed setting on my chair for fear of colliding with trolleys/stacks of tins/other people. Shopping there just isn’t fun.
I promise, hand on heart, that my adventures will be to more exciting places once the warmer weather is here!
I had the same fear of eye-drops. Optrex is pretty good as it comes with an eye cup. You fill the cup, tip your head back with the eye closed, wait for the optrex to warm up against the eye, then blink, like you’re under water.
Warming the eyedrops in your hand helps too. - tugger
The coldest week of the year and you are out every day. Can I come visit Friday afternoon, Saturday or Sunday please and we’ll go out if you wish. Hope Webbs was good x x M - me,Shirley Wendy
Of course you can come, don’t make it sound like you have to beg me! - Timmargh
You have 3 friends … and that lift picture looks like something out of the exorcist, strange floating orb phenomena you appear to have captured - Matt Pugh
Aw, thanks mate :^) - Timmargh
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