I discharged myself from Luton and Dunstable hospital on Thursday so I could attend Novacon. Not medically recommended - I collapsed within 10 feet of the entrance. But the staff at the Park Inn hotel in Nottingham were excellent ( Read more... )

The pub closed at 10:15 tonight as I was the only customer left. Not sure why it was so quiet. Maybe people are saving up for the big England v Poland football match tomorrow?

It started well enough - I was booked in for an Ultrasound scan which went ahead on schedule. Unfortunately, liquid was accumulating quite severely again and they recommended I attend A&E immediately rather than try and make an outpatient appointment. That started OK as well, barely 5 minutes wait. Unfortunately, the next stage was a 4 hour wait to ( Read more... )

For an ultrasound scan rather than any surgical process. Although I hope it will explain recent breathing problems - the last time I had one they couldn't figure out whether the excess fluid was collecting around my belly. It turned out it wasn't, it was filling my right pleural cavity: good news in a way as it only took 2 hours to drain off ( Read more... )

Does anyone still play these? Or more importantly for me, does anyone still want to BUY some? A quick look at ebay suggests "NO ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how many of you are reading this, but for those interested, I passed my Blood Pressure tests, despite coming off FOUR medications for such a month ago. I also passed the Sodium test - probably related. He didn't discuss the depression, but that seems to have lifted anyway - every friend I meet tells me I'm so much better ( Read more... )

For weeks I've had a nagging pain in my right thumb. There doesn't look anything wrong with it, but after getting my new walking stick yesterday (which has been a great confidence booster when walking in the snow) it's nagging even more ( Read more... )

I just HAVE to post this after posting "Buying 65s ( Read more... )

I mentioned my taking bags of goods to charity shops recently. What I didn't mention is that I occasionally also fill up the bags from the "charity collectors will pick this up from your house on Xday" that get posted through my letterbox occasionally. (I seem to get far less here in the new house, when I lived closer to town they arrived almost ( Read more... )

... was harder than I thought. For a start, it took me three months since I moved here to get round to remembering to look for them, even though I could use one or two every Wednesday. But my memory has improved recently and I finally went into Wilkinson's to search for them. No problem with the 6s: there were even plenty of 9s I could have turned ( Read more... )