… time in the café this evening.
There was nowhere to sit so Alison and I took our drinks outside to sit on the wall. I carefully put down my glass and my bottle of water, carefully put down my rucksack, went to sit down, lost my balance and smashed my glass.
Ahh well.
Having crashed out so dramatically last night, we had the Sleep Of The Dead until about 04:50. Totally painless – didn’t feel a thing.
I beat the alarm too and was out of bed before it went off. The washing wasn’t dry (of course) so I searched for a clothes hanger – and instead, found a cooling fan in the wardrobe! I wish that I had found that last night!
Breakfast was very pleasant of course, and then I set off for the hospital. A long, hot weary trudge through the streets in the heat;
I’d gone out early because last time when I had tried to go to the Bank, it was closed in the afternoon. So I arrived a couple of minutes after 09:00, only to find that it was closed for holidays.
It’s really not my day, is it?
There was a new girl on reception at the hospital and she didn’t recognise me, so we had to go through all of the identity checks again which is a pain.
And then with them being under so much pressure, I had to wait a good 25 minutes before I was seen to. And the nurse was somewhat rough with the needle too.
All throughout the day I melted and melted. They wouldn’t open the windows so after I had had a good moan for a while they bought me a fan. And that was much more like it.
The good news is that I have lost 5kgs in weight, and my blood count has gone up to 9.1. Not as much as I had wanted – last year it was 13.0 after the session had finished, but I have one more to go of course, but it won’t reach that.
The doctor doesn’t think that things are quite so urgent, so I told him that I was thinking of taking a holiday after the August visit. His response was “see you when you get back then”, which means that I can at last think of a plan.
I’m not sure what, but Alison and I saw a trip to Cape Verde that could be interesting.
Kaatje was there too and we had a chat. She’s off to Croatia soon so I asked if there was any room in her suitcase.
Eventually I was released, and I walked down to the town in the heat and did a little shopping, as well as buying myself a sorbet.
Alison left work and came to join me, and we had a really good walk before breaking off for a burger in a new vegan rstaurant (although the owners claim that the restaurant isn’t new at all, but we had never seen it before).
We had another sorbet for pudding and then walked down to the cafe on the canalside where I had my adventure with the glass.
Now I’m back here, having had a nice shower to cool me down, and I’m off to bed. With the fan blowing all over me because it really is hot tonight.
But it doesn’t look as if it is the case now, because we’ve just had a power cut. So that’s put paid to that idea.
And even as we speak the power comes back on. So I might have a decent sleep yet.
