Saw the GP today

I was lucky enough to get an urgent 5 minute appointment with the Dr today.
He gave me some antibiotics, steroids and anti inflammatory drugs and already I am starting to feel a bit better.

I still have that awful dizzy, giddy, spacy, buzzy feeling that I usually get just before I succumb to anaesthetic. I have "wobbled" and nearly fallen several times today. If I'm reclining or lying down, it doesn't bother me. It happens when standing or walking. I hope it passes off soon! It is a grave injustice that I am staggering and lurching around like a drunk when I don't drink! If I was a habitual misuser of alcohol, appearing drunk would be well deserved, but I don't drink! I don't drug either. I suppose being misjudged is good for humility!

Kate and Nigel popped over. Kate is really unwell with the same bug that I have, but she has not been able to rest because Wendy has had the bug too and as sick children do the world over, she needed her Mum. No one else would do. Just Mum. Kate tries to be a good wife, a good housewife and homemaker, a good student and a good mother. This leads her to push herself too hard and I'm afraid that all this combined with their threatened homelessness is getting too much from her.

I have a strict policy of not interfering in their marriage, but today I suggested to Nigel that he should take a bit more of the strain. I know he is willing and that Kate doesn't like him to do too much, but she must put her pride aside and let him.
He can't do much with Wendy when she is under the weather because only Mummy will do, but he can do a lot of other stuff.

God, please renew the strength of that battered little family who have weathered so many storms together already.