Having arrived at the hospital with my entourage, Janet with Graham and Jeff, I was given a bed but decided not to change and get in in. I was thinking, give me the blood and I'll go.
Anyway the long and short of it was that I had no lung infection and that I would not get any blood. They thought it could give me more problems rather than fewer.
So I got the free lunch which was fish and chips - but the chips were last weeks by the taste. They also had a strange sponge pudding with odd dark bits in it. I thought I would steer clear of that. When I saw someone I knew from previous visits to GBH I asked her to remove the plate.
Since then we have been talking pain management.
They are very keen to have paracetamol in the background whatever else I take. I wonder about steroids as they gave me an appetite and I was able to drink beer and wine. My visitors had the odd drink but I seemed less able to bend the elbow as I had done earlier.
So Graham and Jeff have gone, Margaret and John arrived, Barnaby and Erin dropped in and Emma (Oscar's fiancée) and her father Andrew looked in and stayed a night.
Apart from the doctor on Friday, the local nurses every other day. the MacMillan nurse on Thursday, Rose and Murray on Monday to play Scrabble, and of course some neighbours with a few very healthy looking mackerel, no one else called except the man to fix the door handles.
So I am back in the groove watching the chess competition in St. Louis and looking forward to one in California later this year with a 1 million dollar first prize, oh, and a world championship match coming soon.
I hope to have a star night in September but have not decided which night. I may let people know we have telescopes here and they can ring saying when they want to come. I have to be able to at least get them started before going back into the warm. We'll see.
Thank you both for your kind hospitality. Sorry about the way the red wine vanished. It was great to reminisce and see those photographs of our misspent youth. Great Memories! Regards Jeff and Graham - fellow travellers.
ReplyDeleteWe had the French couple over the other day so we have some more French red wine
ReplyDelete. We are also being offered mackerel by the neighbours who go out fairly frequently. That is evidently good for my diet.
Greg is going to come and paint the house. He will also put up the TV holder on the bedroom wall. I have not been very active lately, but I did win a game of Scrabble the other day. Not the plastic tiles either. These were the heavier wooden ones.
If I get stronger we will do some stargazing.