A week is a long time in a pandemic. A week is absolutely infinite in NHS land, during a pandemic.

Having safely administered my own iv and removed the long line at home , my delight at feeling so much better, has been euphoric. To think that as a child my siblings and I inherited squeamishness. So bad were we that before any vaccine, let alone jabs for foreign travel, we each fainted on any surgery floor. My mother so squeamish that if we hurt ourselves we had to get her out the way and ring my father to come home to patch us up or take us to A and E. Well I got over all that, and get me ?can do my own iv. Whoop.

OK ok symptoms creeping back but its been a great couple of weeks.

In a curious change of tactics, it seems the eye wateringly expensive American software system used by the hospital, known to me as Eric, has simply self combusted . I have so many messages, updates, changes, appointments I cannot quite work out where I am meant to be when if and how. Seemingly the staff equally have no idea. In the last week I have thus had phone calls from London numbers, emails from unencrypted hospital desks and magically all is going brilliantly:

1. Second vaccine in hospital. with only 12 hours notice – by phone!
2. Mag 3 scan on my kidney cysts, done, and not a bit of the allergy inducing stuff as previously suggested.
3. Broken foot . Still broken.
4. Stand by: ….you may not believe it…actually I am still reeling from the shock: Dipstick has apparently ‘found a date for the change of SNS operation’. 9th April. What?! I hear you echo. It seems he has been wandering around looking under the furniture, for a date here there and anywhere. Now, I have pre-op appointments, face to face, phone and email, isolation preceding the operation, covid test before the operation etc etc. There’s a bit of me that worries I’m taking someone’s place in the queue. Dipstick had said it would be ages. Maybe 3 years before I got this. What has changed? Meanwhile ERIC has imploded…not coped at all well. In fact ERIC thinks I am actually in hospital now. Here is my day so far:

More news as it arrives ….