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Getting on with it

Sometimes – thankfully – events conspire to remind us to park our self-absorption, reflect upon life and be thankful for small mercies. I hesitate to file this post under the heading ‘There’s always someone worse off than yourself’, but there’s an element of that in my theme today. [...]

March 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

And here’s another one …

Simply by living life we come across every aspect of it, from birth to death – and that includes all the joys, laughter, madness, frustrations, hurts, slights, triumphs, challenges and innumerable other things and situations (great and small) that affect us personally and/or cause us to reflect [...]

March 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

It depends what you think is important

There is an article by Fiona Macrae featured today on the website of the Daily Mail which suggests that continuing to have sex into your eighth decade sharpens your brainpower and improves the memory – see here – OLDER SEX Normally I dismiss media pieces like this as fillers deployed off a [...]

March 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

A visit to the doctor

My late father, a private doctor and GP, was a mild non-confrontational man. Once though a young strident cousin of my mother was holding forth that private medicine was unethical in a democratic society and should be abolished. My father turned to her and said “You have as much chance of [...]

February 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

OK – but could do better

My latest report from the minefield of medical science and fitness regimes contains a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. Earlier this week I presented myself to the nurse at my GP surgery to undergo a ‘general health test’ – something that I was first offered a couple of years ago. As I [...]

January 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Holier than thou

My new fitness regime, hampered of course by my gammy hip, continues. They say man cannot live by bread alone and, since (on my new self-designed diet imposed since 1st January) bread and potatoes are banned, some of us cannot even live on that. Last night, for our evening meal, we had what I now [...]

January 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Doing what you can

Medical and fitness issues concern me today. It’s been about three months since my hospital consultant, having listened patiently to my long list of symptoms and ongoing discomforts in my arthritic hip, paused for a moment and cheerily responded “That’s fine then, I’ll sign [...]

January 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rugby still has medical work to do

Last night I began watching the Gloucester versus Saracens Premiership rugby match being relayed live from Kingsholm by BT Sport. After a while, not fully engaged by its entertainment and having other domestic distractions I went to bed …and  thereby missed by a few minutes the sight of Ben [...]

January 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ready, Steady, Go!

For most of us, after the excesses of the festive period, the New Year brings attempts in various degrees of determination to ‘make that change’ (whatever it, or they, might be). I’m sure that many follow my own traditional routine of hatching my list of ‘improvement’ goals anywhere from [...]

January 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Too late for me, I fear!

Two potentially positive stories relating to dementia are circulating in the media this week. The first, based upon research conducted at the Rockefeller University in New York, is suggesting that Riluzole – a drug currently used to treat forms of motor neurone disease by preventing connections [...]

December 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

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