Tuesday 11 December 2018

Mid December 2018


11/12/2018

I’ve been having a pretty easy time of things health wise just lately ,teeth , hearing and general health not giving me too much trouble  -  until last week that is.

I was at  Barbara’s bungalow in Stowmarket when out of the blue it suddenly hit me. My myeloma that is , which although it was diagnosed 9 years ago I had never had any kind of reaction from it and was only aware of it through regular blood tests. It came without any kind of warning at all, was extremely painful and as I was to discover caused some quite severe damage.

Barbara managed to manhandle me into her car and rushed   me straight to the local hospital in nearby Bury St Edmunds and that’s where I woke up about 4 hours later not having the faintest idea where I was.

I soon discovered that they had found major deterioration of a bone in my upper arm and that I  had immediately undergone a major operation to deal with it by fitting a permanent metal splint in the arm. The operation was a success and although the arm is in a sling I can move it about and there is not too much pain.  I have a review of the situation in 3 days time and hope I will be out of the sling by the Xmas holidays.

In the meantime I think that Barbara has found a very nice mature local man to deal with the garden , trees and etc; and even possibly some general handyman work.
 Our local park. 

We will have a very quite Xmas here in Stowmarket for the holiday but Barbara has planned one of her usual magnificent buffets for the new year for family and neighbours who are on their own .  Our grandchildren are no longer children but grown up with their own lives but I expect we shall still see them from time to time – I do hope so anyway.   

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