Once more into the breech.

It may be once more into the breaches buoy.
There is  lot of discussion about how to get me to Aberdeen at the end of the month.
It will be time for them to wheel out the ray guns.
As I am so remote and have a lot of problems it is not easy to arrange bed to bed transfer with a break (no puns) in GBH.
They have tried and are trying other therapies but will now run out the machinery to try Radio Therapy
I was sitting by my heap of Happy Pills the other day deciding that I will not be holding back on them any more when it occurred to me that it is not only policemen who seem to be getting younger. It also people like me who appear to be getting older.
I know nurses should be grateful to us for keeping them from becoming redundant but there is a lot to be grateful for in the NHS.
The whooper swans are coming back for the winter and other birds have stopped on their journeys as they passed the house. A yellow browed warbler sat on the verandah the other day looking in at people having lunch.
Hopefully we will have a discussion next week about using the astronomical telescopes and watching shooting stars and trying to see the Araura. We will see.
I need to get other people organised and of course explain to Janet how to mix concrete.
I will keep in touch and if we decide that the happy pills could lead to a new lifestyle I will arrange for cheaper rates for family to install their tents.

Progress!

I got there. I am now in the top 50 in Scotland (48).
This made me feel pleased with myself but getting any higher is extremely difficult.
I need to meet good players on their bad days while I am on a series of good days.
Still worried about travel to Aberdeen. If I can get stretcher to the airport, possibly overnight in hospital in GBH then I have the transfer from stretcher to wheelchair to plane seat and v.v. at the end of each flight it could work. Given extra morphine.
I would be looking in on the nurses I keep meeting as I go in for treatments from time to time.
The hip was a large part of my body, I thought, when it gained my full attention by hurting more. Then the other day the extra painkiller kicked in and it appeared to shrink a bit.
I seem to have lost the first part of this entry so I will abandon for the moment and keep what I have.
I am keeping my chins up.

Back Home

I am sitting in my bed having returned yesterday from another stay at GBH.
They changed my tablets so that I do not have a slow release patch but tablets daily and an extra tablet when extra pain occurs or I want to get into an artistic mood.
Sadly I was tired and gloomy last night with a more cheerful state of mind this morning but a lot of vomiting.
My trip in was to deal with the big problem of the left hip. Both cancer and arthritis have been working on it and my confidence in it has been diminishing. I'm less worried now.
I was worrying about my next trip to Aberdeen where I will be going in a few weeks.
This will be for Zapping, the only thing they have not tried yet. They say it will slow the growth of the cancer in the bone. So I get a tattoo to ensure they send the ray gun in at the same place and the same angle each tine.
I looked on the website while I was in hospital where I find the top hundred players from each country. I am in the top hundred in Scotland. There are no Scots in the top hundred in the world.
I shall try and get into the top 50 in Scotland. It is  possible but not likely, although I may play some amazing stuff under the influence of my latest drugs. I'll keep trying; its good to have an ambition.
I'll be putting in short bulletins as I feel able.