Summer Nights

Can somebody please turn the thermostat down ? It's way too hot & sticky for both of us. Jude especially is having a lot of difficulty with it, needing both the fan & the evaporative cooler going all day to cope. Even with them, she is still getting a lot of phlegm on her lungs. We have tried Robitussin Chesty, but that doesn't seem to help. On another MN sufferers blog, we have found out that he uses his BIPAP for a couple of hours before bed, which helps break down the stringy bits in his chest & makes it easier for him to get rid of it, so we have tried that & yes, it works. The other thing that is helping is a nightly Amitryptelene tablet. It seems to help break down the phlegm & the soporific effect also helps her get a good nights sleep. Just remember, that if you are putting it through a PEG tube, that it needs a good half hour or more to dissolve in water. What I do is put the tablet into the syringe, half fill it with water & sit it upside down in a glass so it doesn't run out.

The garden is thriving. So are the weeds. I'm hopeful that with light showers forecast for today that it will get cool enough for me to be able to get out & start emptying out some of the pots around that only have weeds in them. My ultimate aim is to get round the shade house tidied sufficiently so that Jude can get out there in her wheelchair & potter round a bit if she wants to. There must be something wrong with me. I'm actually starting to enjoy doing a bit of gardening...