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[BrilloPad]

[BrilloPad]

Snowed earlier in LLandudno. We built in miniature snowman earlier snow-person earlier. Using carrot and prunes.

[BR14]

I got a magic no in WA !
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<sorry brillo, i didn't mean to pip you at the post>

[BR14]

About 1.5 inches here in sarf herts.
Think i'll stay indoors today

[BR14]

Morning denizens

Woken in the small hours to be stabbed in the arm, as expected

Only another ten days or so of this, followed by a couple of months or so recovering from it

Ouch! - that'll hurt your reserves.
Still better than the alternative though

[NickFitz]

This morning saw a proper visit from the surgeon, to go over all the details and get me to sign consent forms. So we're on for Tuesday morning

[NickFitz]

Ouch! - that'll hurt your reserves.
Still better than the alternative though

My contract ends on the 7 January anyway, and I was kind of hoping for no renewal so I could take a few months off. I'd rather have been doing something other than recovering from open heart surgery, but any option that doesn't involve the A14 is good by me

[NickFitz]

Anyway, lunch today has been the all day breakfast, again

I tried the crème caramel for dessert, but it had much the consistency of a freshly-opened tin of emulsion, and I found myself unable to finish it

Roast chicken for dinner tonight, I think, in a vague nod to the notion of it being Sunday

[NickFitz]

This morning saw a proper visit from the surgeon, to go over all the details and get me to sign consent forms. So we're on for Tuesday morning

Apparently he usually does four bypasses a week, two on Tuesday and two on Friday. He said that if necessary he'd have done me this weekend, but as I seemed reasonably stable, he preferred to use the additional time to allow various drugs I've been on to be flushed out of my system fully, as I thought. So I'm first in this week

The cannula being used to pump me full of heparin has been relocated, at the fourth attempt by two different people. None of these attempts were pain-free or in any way relaxing

It seems my skin is quite sensitive to the glue on the tape used to stick down things like cannulas and on the pads for the ECG, so they keep having to move stuff around to let it recover.

[cojak]

Afternoon. Well I’m very disappointed with the snow around here. It’s melting already. ☹️