The Diary of Real Britain
I'm a 57 Year old Disabled man. I have worked for 37.5 continuous years. This Podcast Chronicles the struggles I have while making the journey of life. From putting food on the table to looking after the car and cat. From doing the shopping and going to work. From going to the gym and socialising. And carrying out my political activism. I then keep the Diary of Real Britain to tell people of this journey. To tell them of the Britain I live in.
The Diary of Real Britain
Episode 99 Monday 24th November
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Monday. I get a phone call from oncology to ask if I could make my way to my wifes bedside today. I make my way there by 11,30. We wait until 1pm when oncology appear. Then its a further ten minutes when they actually have a meeting with us. Its good new as my wife does not have to have chemo. And she may live cancer free for the next three years and possibly another 5. I go away happy. However I am very late for the gym that its not possible to have my afternoon session. I then get ready for work the next day. Tuesday. its the usual quietness perhaps its because its cold, wet and windy. Wednesday. Again work is the same. I go home and have a telephone conversation with my wife and then have my dinner and then to bed. Thursday. Except my base at drummer street all is quiet. I then leave work for the hospital to see my wife. When I get there I am told that my wife will be discharged into Rehab on the brookfields site. I am over the moon. Friday. The morning is the usual and then I have lunch. Then I get a phone call saying that my wife is now in rehab. However there are restricted visiting times but for me that is not a problem. Saturday. In the morning I feel like doing the housework and then in the afternoon I go and see my wife. She is near enough for me to go straight there without a lift. I spend 2 hrs there and then home. Sunday. Just an ordinary Sunday. Sunday politics East on T.v and then to Bar Hill for the weekly shop and then home. I go home and then in the evening I have my Sunday Roast ready meal.