New Flooring At Last

At long last, we have new flooring in our living room. For a number of reasons: incontinent cat, my asthma, muddy paws (and that’s just Andy, never mind the dog) we decided against carpet and have gone for limestone flags.  As they are differing sized rectangles, light in colour and have a matt finish, they don’t look and feel like tiles in a hospital waiting area.  They should also be easy to clean with a damp mop or cloth so that animal hairs and dander should be less of an issue than with carpet. We’re really pleased with the look!

Breathless.....and not in a good way!

Living with well controlled asthma means I can normally pinpoint when circumstances cause it to begin spiralling out of control. Recently, however, I’ve been struggling with mysterious attacks of breathlessness at random times and situations where I’ve never had problems before. It’s been somewhat alarming, causing me to actually take Andy’s advice and contact the surgery! During a telephone consultation in advance of an appointment, I was advised to take anti-histamines and up the dosage of both my preventative and reliever inhalers. So far, this appears to be working, although I still have some symptoms when cycling. To be continued……