Suzy's Birthday...

Just returned from "Press" which was my first major outing and for Suzannah's 24th birthday. We worked out that Suz has been away for nearly 10 years and it was really nice to just have a quiet dinner.

Sylvia, Suz and I all went to see Prof Watson today and I had the feeding tube removed as planned. We went over a heap of questions but the short story is that I have essentially had a number of ribs broken, massive invasion and disruption to my whole chest area and there is no quick fix. Lots of pain, plenty of healing PLUS the body has to work out how to function with what it has got left.

Reflux and Nausea are part of the deal, and sleeping normally on my side is some time off yet. It will be still weeks before things begin to settle and there are no short cuts.

As for remedial treatment, it seems that the benefits are debatable, and Prof would rather me just leave things to heal in their own time and start rebuilding after the body has done its thing in getting used to the new body configuration.

I was thinking Physiotherapy, or perhaps some massage and so on, even some naturapath  help... The Prof''s preference remains: leave the body to sort itself for a bit longer.

Sylv asked about follow up on the Cancer, scans and so on. To all of our surprise, no. Pretty much we went for full cure, the cancer has been treated and removed, and now is the next chapter to just get on and make long term plans and get well and back into life.

If there were to be secondaries, there was no benefit in worrying about that, it shouldn't  happen but if it does, only then would it be the time to deal with it and not now. For now, we are to assume job done, healing commenced and to focus on the next 40 years.

While we were still with the Prof my hole where the tube came out spurted some gunk out,  twice!!  We ended up redressing it and so far so good, I think it has sealed as expected now.

We talked a lot about pain relief. Upshot was that pretty much it was time to realize there  will be issues at night until the ribs settle down so suck it up.

After leaving Prof,  we  dropped Sylv and Suz up to Kensington House to do a few things. Sylv and I went into Calvary to visit Mother Teressa. She looked great but  I think it was timely when we left, it had been a big 24 hours for Teressa. Nothing like turning the tables. I have challenged Teressa to a walking competition when we are both fitter.

Well, time to go for now.