A visit from the district nurses this morning to change my dressing which will be happening daily for a number of weeks. 🙁 We met with a really nice couple this evening who are planning their wedding for August this year.
Monday in hospital
I can eat again, I had a few rounds of toast and coffee for breakfast and apple pie and custard for lunch. Had my dressings changed (ouch!) and I’m now allowed home. My mum gave me a lift home from the hospital, it’s nice to be home again. 🙂
Amy and Alistair called in this evening, as they’re just back from honeymoon, to collect their wedding pack (DVD slideshow and virtual album on CD). It was a lovely wedding at Bryngarw House.
Admitted to hospital!
A visit to the out of hours medical centre at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, followed by an assessment by one of the surgical team in A&E means I’m admitted to hospital with surgery scheduled for the evening! I’m not allowed any food or drink and I’m hooked up to a saline and glucose drip with the odd dose of antibiotic – no Sunday lunch today. 🙁 Taken to theatre at 11 p.m. and back on the ward at around half an hour after midnight. No chance of much sleep as I’m being regularly monitored.
A quiet Saturday
A quiet Saturday at home a fairly uneventful day.
A dry Friday
The insurance documents arrived for the Nissan Patrol, the local Post Office has run out of tax discs, so a drive to the Treforest Estate Post Office to tax it. An appointment with the doctor and a prescription for antibiotics but I may need an immediate referral to the local hospital if there isn’t a rapid improvement. Collected the Nissan Patrol and drove it home, I’ve previously owned a number of high spec Range Rovers and Discoveries and I wasn’t expecting the Patrol to be as good on road but I’ve been pleasantly surprised, it’s well behaved in traffic and cruises comfortably at 70 mph and is quite capable of going faster.
A quiet Thursday
I’m still waiting for the insurance documents for the Nissan Patrol to arrive in the post so I can tax it and collect it. I’m having a very annoying problem with the main pc, the latest updates from Symantec live update are causing severe problems with the status application continuously accessing the hard disk. It’s also then impossible to access any of the Norton applications. Booting from the Ghost 10 CD and restoring the C drive from the latest back up is the only solution. A selective update from Symantec live update, without selecting the program updates is working as an interim measure.
An overcast Wednesday
Our immersion heater has stopped working, a check revealed that the main switch is faulty. A trip to the local Focus diy store to buy a new switch. I replaced the switch and everything is now working.
A mixed Tuesday
I called in to Cardiff this morning and test drove a Nissan Patrol SGX GR with a 4L diesel engine, it’s a bit of a monster but I decided to buy it, I haven’t driven anything quite that large for some time, it needs a little TLC but the price was very tempting – might regret it later. Just need to make some room on the drive for it. 🙂
A mixed Monday
Overcast early with sunshine later. Lunch at John & Ida’s in Pontypridd. A quiet and relaxing bank holiday.
A bright Sunday
I went to Makro this morning to do a little bit of shopping, it was almost deserted which made a pleasant change. Lunch with my mum and David at John and Ida’s in Pontypridd.