In a world of uncertainty I know one thing for sure, the older I get the weirder my thoughts get. I’ll give you one example that struck me as I was watching TV the other day. It was a programme about a hospital garden designed specifically to accommodate spinal injury victims, many of whom were… Continue reading Strange thoughts
Category: Health
Good health and cheap not
I did something last week that I had never done before in the 77 years of my life thus far. I paid for private medical care. I was not happy with this decision for two reasons. One, it has always been against my vague socialist principles and two, it’s very expensive. I wouldn’t like to… Continue reading Good health and cheap not
Phew, what a week!
Continuing the theme of two coming along at once (buses you may remember) this is the second health blog in a short time. Oh no not that old chestnut I hear you cry. We’ve heard all we want to hear about your health. But wait just a minute this blog is not about my health… Continue reading Phew, what a week!
What’s wrong with me now?
Even though I’ve been retired for just over 12 years (September 2013) and have written, according to my recent advert in The Oldie magazine (I put one in each year about this time) I have written over 2,000 blogs about retirement ( see image above)I have, in that time, read very few other people’s retirement… Continue reading What’s wrong with me now?
Retirement clickbait
You all know what ‘clickbait’ means, here is my attempt at writing a blog with that concept in mind. Hence the title – what one question have I continued to ask myself for the last ten years or so of my retirement? ‘Clickbait’ has been on my mind as an irritation since I started looking… Continue reading Retirement clickbait
No more control freak, now I’m Mr Grumpy
After several months of writing in these retirement blogs about my health and not in a good way, I’ve tried to keep these more recent blogs a little more, what can I call it, upbeat? It’s been a struggle at times and in this blog I’ve kicked that idea into the long grass. In this… Continue reading No more control freak, now I’m Mr Grumpy
Three weeks
So here we are just over three weeks into to that mysterious world known as post-op TURP. I had no idea what to expect as, like most people in this position, I’ve never been here before (and hope never to be in it again). There’s a definite absence of people professional or otherwise to ask… Continue reading Three weeks
The beginning of the end?
Two weeks since my last retirement blog. I had expected to write the follow-up before this but it’s a mark of how below par I have been these last few days and reduced to feeling a bit sorry for myself by my TURP operation on the 6th of this month. I had convinced myself that… Continue reading The beginning of the end?
A possible set back?
I was going to call this blog before and after. This based on the simple premise that I started to write it before my prostate operation on the 6th of October and would finish it some time after the op. The only problem with this idea was that the operation didn’t happen. To cut a… Continue reading A possible set back?
Mixed messages
It’s Friday of quite a big 2 weeks on the road to recovery. Not without its challenges but on the whole a good first week with plenty happening. For example, on Wednesday it was my pre-op meeting at Harrogate hospital. A chance to ask some questions and to receive a ‘you’ll need to ask the… Continue reading Mixed messages