Just over a week since my last update so quite quick in my vaguely intended schedule terms. It’s not as if much has happened in the interim. I do have a telephone conversation with Newcastle hospital presumably about some aspect of my prostate operation but truth be told I have no idea until it happens….
Category: Health
After the op
What is it ‘they’ say? Be careful what you wish for … Well I wished for a definite date for at least one of my operations and now I have it – Monday 5th of June confirmed. So I’ve moved from worrying about not having a definite date to worrying about having one. Sometimes you…
Time goes so slow
Well the wait goes on and on. Who knows by the time I post this blog I may have heard back from a hospital, any hospital, preferably one I have visited in the last year But yes, any hospital. The first thing that needs to happen is for the CPEX test results to come back….
Bringing you up to date
This too shall pass. As some wise person once said. It’s been about two weeks since my last update on this exciting adventure concerning my health. Well, you say, not much can have happened in that short time. But you would be wrong, as you will read but you probably will not believe what you…
The saga continues
I think I can safely say it has been the best of times and the worst of times. That’s a bit dramatic but in the context of all my ailments I think it’s a fair summary. After 4 scans and a visit to the colon surgeon in Leeds and a five hour round trip to…
So what’s normal and is it fun?
My plan is to have as much fun as my health allows. Is driving my Land Rover Defender fun? Well it must be because that’s what I’ve just done. Admittedly not very far but it’s the first time I’ve driven since all this business started i.e. about ten weeks ago. I reckon that’s the longest…
More wood and trees
I said at the end of my last health blog that I hoped that the anaesthetist in charge of my prostate operation would take the same sunny view of my blood clots and their effect on my operation as the doctor in charge of my colon cancer operation. I.e. their presence would not stop the…
Retirement life: full of surprises
Full of surprises. Well you couldn’t write it could you? I had decided that I would under no circumstances write about my colonoscopy or rather the absence of said procedure but then fate took a hand in the form of the article / link below in the weekend papers. Never say never, I guess. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/10/leftfield-band-music-neil-barnes-interview-this-is-what-we-do…
The Covid aftermath continuing
Covid aftermath. All I really want after my bout of Covid is to get back to normal. It’s great that life has been going on in my absence. I might be sleeping a disproportionate amount but the scammers of the world are still working hard. What do they say, no rest for the wicked? How…
Covid in retirement
Covid in retirement. Did you miss me? Did you wonder where I’d gone, why there hadn’t been a retirement blog on Tuesday for the first time in nine years, in over a thousand blogs? You didn’t? Well I’ll tell you anyway because the answer is relatively straight-forward. It’s the dreaded C word. Yes Covid, after…