Back at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning to see the consultant, the wound appears to be slightly infected so they’ve placed me on a further course of antibiotics. If it gets any worse they’ll take me back into theatre, if it heals then they plan on admitting me again in the new year after my follow up appointment for a further investigation under a general anaesthetic. 🙁
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Back home again
Visited the doctor last week and was put on antibiotics over the weekend but things were much worse by Monday so I was admitted again to Ward 7 at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital and in theatre that evening. The staff on Ward 7 are really lovely. I was discharged on Tuesday afternoon and the district nurses are visiting each morning to dress the wound. The sister visited this morning and she isn’t happy with the wound so she may refer me back to the hospital depending on how things progress over the next few days. 🙁
Blog Fixed!
Something must have gone wrong with the last upgrade to my blog software as I haven’t been able to write any posts since the upgrade last month! I finally had some free time this morning to re-download the upgrade files, FTP them to my server and repeat the upgrade process. Everything seems to be working and I can once again write posts. 🙂
It’s been a busy month with lots of work on album designs, making up albums and print orders. This is a really busy time for album manufacturers and often low stocks and long delivery times reflect this.
I’m enjoying the new Welsh class, the pace is fairly brisk and it can be quite a struggle to keep up, there’s quite a lot of spoken work and homework twice a week so it’s quite intensive.
Claire and Lee stayed with us last weekend it was really nice to see them again.
A very wet Thursday
I’ve been catching up with the folk podcast run by Ken Nicol (Steeleye Span) and Phil Widdows, I’m quite new to listening to podcasts (the term comes from an amalgamation of i-pod and broadcasts although you don’t need an i-pod), the folk podcast is produced monthly and is in essence a ‘radio’ programme accessible on the web, you can listen to it in Windows Media Player (or any other media player) or copy it to a personal MP3 player. You can access individual programmes directly from the folk podcast web site or install a free RSS Podcast Client (rather like a blog aggregator) which will keep you up to date with selected podcasts. I downloaded the free Juice software which seems to work very well.
The heavy rain and high winds have continued through the day and we also had a brief power cut.
I managed to complete the upgrade process for BT Total Broadband today by telephone, having failed to make it happen on-line on the BT website, both times I tried on their web site I received a confirmation page that stated the upgrade had been accepted but that was where the upgrade process ended! Fingers crossed that everything will be working next week.
Back Home
Toast and coffee for breakfast and discharged from hospital following the ward round at nine o’clock. The staff on Ward 7 at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital are really nice.
It’s nice to be back home, a quiet day spent catching up on emails.
David and Hannah visited this evening.
Back in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital
I went into the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning, nothing to eat after 7:30 and a trip to the operating theatre at 16:30. A few sandwiches and coffee this evening.
A mixed Thursday
At the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning for ‘pre-operative clerking’, examination and ECG prior to my surgery next week.
I’ve completed all the wedding albums and orders and they were all collected yesterday, my accounts have been completed up to the end of November so everything is currently up to date and ready for the next VAT return.
A damp Saturday
I received my admissions letter from the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning, I’m going in for further tests next week with surgery scheduled for the following week. 🙁
I spent a lot of time today making up wedding albums, hoping to finish everything tomorrow.
A wet and windy Thursday
I took my Mum to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning, she was convinced that she’d be there for a few hours so insisted that I didn’t wait and she’d phone when she needed a lift home. Three quarters of an hour later she rang to say she was ready. 🙂
I received another delivery from Jorgensen today so it will be all systems go over the next few days to complete the remaining album orders. More fun with the 3M repositionable pressure mounting film. 🙁
A bright Sunday
It’s been a little while since I posted so here’s a brief update.
I spent the first three days of last week at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on ward 7 having some minor surgery, the staff on the ward were really nice and even the food was pretty good once they allowed me to eat some!
I returned home on Wednesday afternoon and have been having daily visits from the district nurse to change my dressings, I’m not very mobile at the moment but I’m still managing to keep up to date with the orders that I’ve been receiving.
I recently upgraded to the new versions of Internet Explorer (version 7) and Firefox (2.0), a few minor issues with the new IE7 and the way that my on-line viewing galleries handle password input. Unfortunately Microsoft have decided to block the password input window by default in IE7. I’ve implemented some code changes that enable password protection to work correctly within the default limitations of IE7.
The new Firefox 2.0 browser is a very nice improvement over the previous version, it now has an in-built spell checker that uses UK English and the ability to save and re-open tabbed browsing without having to use a third party plug in.
I also upgraded my Linux system to the latest version of Ubuntu (Edgy), the upgrade process wasn’t as smooth as it should have been but everything now seems to be set up and updated correctly. The Linux system is mainly used as a file server and back up storage for ‘work in progress’, it performs better, faster and more reliably than using Windows file sharing.