Observations. Part Four.

We are all creatures of habit. It is good to have routine.

Yesterday Paul said to me, “I have a blood test tomorrow, remind me not to eat or drink coffee, I can only have sips of water.”

Paul’s appointment was late, 12.10pm, I said to Paul, “I didn’t know they still did fasting blood tests anymore?” “He said, “Yes they do.”

I thought, now that he has asked me to remember, I must make sure, I don’t.

I got a large sheet of thick note paper, and cut them up into nine squares. I then wrote different things on each one.

On some I wrote, “Paul no breakfast,” On others, “No coffee,” Some had, “Sips of water,” On the last one, “Blood test.”

Then last night before we went to bed, I removed his coffee jar and put it in a different place, with a note on top. I then put a note on his mobile phone, I put one on his sofa, I put one on his pack of sweets that he has with his cigarettes, I put another in the hall of the floor, the last one I put on my sofa, so that I would make sure, the cats didn’t move any during the night.

The rest was now up to Paul. This morning while Paul was still in bed, after I done all the morning work around the house, it was time to wake up Paul.

Paul is a big coffee drinker, I’d removed his favourite cup, he had a different cup with water in. I thought as he sat there, I am suddenly hungry, usually I would do something healthy, and take my time cooking it, but it would have been wrong to do that today, but I was hungry so I thought I would have my back-up emergency meal or snack, good old banana sandwich! No butter was added, I just had the lovely banana sliced up on the bread and cut in half, eaten slowly it was delicious. It did the job. I know Paul wouldn’t have felt sad about me eating that, he said nothing, he was busy on his mobile phone.

I drove him to the doctors for his blood test, then I drove us back, on the way he said, “I can’t wait to have a coffee and something to eat.” Back home he had a coffee and corn flakes.

I said, “Did my notes around the home help?” He said, “Yes, and the ones on top of the sweets helped a lot, it was automatic to reach for one with my cigarettes.”