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Medical matters again

Sometimes I frighten myself with how blasé I am regarding medical matters and my own body. I used to be terminally squeamish with anything too gruesome or detailed about other people’s illnesses, diseases or injuries. For a long while I was prone to feeling a mounting queasiness whenever people [...]

December 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Day three

Whilst I do not possesses the cricket expertise of Duggie Heath and Tom Hollingworth, it is obvious even to me that today England will today have a mountain to climb. India can bat till lunchtime, have a lead of 250 runs and 4 sessions to bowl out England. If Root can extract turn on this wicket, [...]

December 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

I did okay, but not as well as I thought I would

Hello, it’s me again. I’m reporting in with progress post my hip replacement operation which took place in July – something I haven’t done in a while. In advance of undergoing the knife I had received medical opinion from all quarters that I should put off having a replacement for as long [...]

November 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

A meeting at the coast

For a variety of reasons which need not concern us here my November has been unusually hectic. As a break from everything else that is going on, yesterday I drove to the coast for a family meeting coinciding with the arrival of my father’s new live-in carer – in actual fact, one specifically [...]

November 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Time and life

It’s a slightly strange thing – but possibly these days a more frequent one – being an old age pensioner whilst still having one of your parents alive, but that is my lot in life. That phrase ‘that is my lot in life’ has undertones that I wish it wasn’t this way, but it won’t [...]

November 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

In the wee small hours

All my life I have ‘suffered’ from partial insomnia, frequently awaking during the night and for several hours in the early hours. I have deliberately put ‘suffered’ in inverted commas as there is a tendency to regard wakefulness as some sort of disorder if not depression. [...]

November 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hmmnnn ….

They say of London buses that when you need one they don’t come for ages – and, when eventually they do, several arrive in convoy. As a senior citizen, I say similarly damn this internet thing, whose most annoying aspect is almost the reverse. When you read something of note somewhere on a [...]

November 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Upon receiving a short sharp shock

Yesterday evening, on the BBC television’s Six O’Clock News, I caught a report upon some new findings by medical researchers on the effects of smoking upon the human body. It was uncompromising, stark, direct and blunt and – for this viewer – a bit of ‘sit up and take notice’ moment. I [...]

November 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Medical Day 2

This week I went back for a final (‘signing off’) appointment with one of the team that did my hip replacement surgery three and a half months ago. It was relatively uneventful largely because, having pitched up for a previous appointment early in September, I had learned my lessons as regards [...]

November 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Medical Day

Yesterday I saw no less than 3 medicos wishing to clear them all in one day. I started with my first series of vaccinations for a trip to India later in the year. I like my doctor as he is old school, very experienced and optimistic. I won’t see a GP who is rushed and does not maintain eye [...]

November 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

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