Thank goodness the miserable grey January is over . February is going to be amazing. We hope!

My incredibly stoic friends and family are facing NHS etc medicalness with remarkable bravery and humour.

As for me I suddenly remembered that Jerome had asked GP to prescribe new stuff called iauril. That was last October. No rush GP still had not. Fighting through the econsult non -human -GP -bot I managed to get a message through. It takes ages because if you tick the wrong box it spits you out of the system and tells you to ring 111 immediately. Or go to Aand E.

Imagine my amazement ….a human rang from the surgery. It did not go well:

“We haven’t received a letter from your consultant”

“We don’t read any emails”

“You have no idea how many emails we get. If we read them we would be really busy”

FFS – so I printed off the email and took it there. Needless to say so far….nothing prescribed. only 3 months so far…no rush

In other news jaw operation apparently April. But actually I haven’t officially heard. Another broken tooth and broken wiring. Oops. 8 months wait so far. But it’s the two year anniversary of the wiring up bit. arghh.

Bladder needs a different antibiotic every other day…dunno how else to manage it.

Spinal battery change – not yet arranged. 6months so far.

Follow up with Dipstick after MRI – 3 years so far…yup 3 years.

But good things do happen. I’ve been asked to be a ‘Global Ambassador’ for a certain product – more on that in due course. The best news is that the Global Ambassador for the male version of said product is Olympian rower Pete Reed. To that end we have been talking online. This week we did a podcast together too, I’ll send you the link when it’s out. It is a conversation between we two and a lady with a stoma. It is about innovation in bladder and bowel health. It is going to be fantastic…it has moments of seriousness mixed up with humour, inappropriate stories and may not survive censorship. Watch out Wes we are coming to find you.

Pete is totally the hero of the conversation. Our mantra:. No pity points please. Or in his words…we don’t do ‘trauma blagging”. We do do call to action.

Dad always wanted me to join MI5 MI6 or even be an ambassador. This is not quite what you had in mind Dad, never mind we are going to have adventures this year. I will know more soon.

My siblings are coming up with a Latin quote for my parents ‘green burial’. My o level latin was too long ago to be of help. But this has reminded me of one of Jerome’s :

Ne nothi te deorsum

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