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?
Before and after – again
A few weeks ago I started to write a blog entitled before and after. The idea being I would write about life before my prostate operation and then, after it. But when my operation was cancelled owing to a mysterious (and still remains so) stomach ache, the idea became rather redundant. Well never let a… Continue reading Before and after – again
Vineyard 95 : It’s been a while
Would you believe that this is the first vineyard blog since December, 2022. That’s nearly a year since the last one for a blog that I used to post every month. In fact I had, until that point, written 94 of them. The vineyard years, as I entitled it, had been a part of my… Continue reading Vineyard 95 : It’s been a while
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
More normality than you can shake a stick at
Well if our pre-op lives were characterised by busyness then after last week you might say normality has returned. True with my prostate operation still to come I’m not back to complete pre-op normality but I’ll return to this aspect of my retirement life later. For now let me describe the last few days. We… Continue reading More normality than you can shake a stick at
More normality?
Sometimes it’s quite hard to remember what our lives used to be like before all this health business came along. But we try and recall the basics so we can use them as a yardstick against which to create what we call normality or even the new normality. There’s no doubt that our post op… Continue reading More normality?
Are things improving?
You might call this a transitionary blog, if you were so minded. Read on and make your own judgement – are there signs of improvement of getting back to normal? A couple of things relevant to my continuing health issues since I posted my last blog. Both of them broadly good news but it’s, I’ve… Continue reading Are things improving?
Getting there?
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.… Continue reading Getting there?
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… Continue reading After the op