{"id":10026,"date":"2017-12-21T19:46:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T19:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10026"},"modified":"2017-12-21T20:38:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T20:38:24","slug":"21st-december-2017-ive-finally-bitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10026","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 21st December 2017 &#8211; I&#8217;VE FINALLY BITTEN &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the bullet and I&#8217;ve arranged a doctor&#8217;s appointment for tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p>After last night, I was feeling rather better this morning. But to tell you how bad things really are, it took almost 2.5 hours of film on the laptop before I managed to fall asleep. I&#8217;m clearly not well, am I?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been on my travels too &#8211; down Coleridge Way in Crewe. And when I say &#8220;down&#8221;, I mean about 30 feet down because it was all under water. A couple of trips down there at various epochs, comparing the cars that were parked there &#8211; like &#8220;N&#8221; reg Marinas, that kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>No alarm, but I was still awake quite early. Not that this meant that I left the bed early of course. More like 08:30 in fact. <\/p>\n<p>It took me ages to summon up the force to leave the sofa for my medication, and it goes without saying that I declined breakfast. I was back on the sofa again.<\/p>\n<p>For lunch, I made a litre of packet soup and managed to drink a couple of mugs. But that&#8217;s left a horrible, metallic taste in my mouth that I can&#8217;t shift.<\/p>\n<p>There was still the question of picking up my medication so round about 15:00 I crawled into town. A <em>baguette<\/em> from the <em>bouangerie<\/em> (to go in the freezer with the other one) and some little bits and pieces from the Coccinelle. And then the medication.<\/p>\n<p>The walk back up here was a nightmare. I fet weak and dizzy and had to sop every couple of hundred yards. Definitely the worst trip that I&#8217;ve ever made back here. That was what made up my mind to see the doctor.<br \/>\n&#8220;Is it an emergency?&#8221; asked the receptionist<br \/>\nI explained the circumstances.<br \/>\n&#8220;I can&#8217;t fit you in before 10:15 tomorrow&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nImagine that in the UK?<\/p>\n<p>And then I crashed out on the sofa.<\/p>\n<p>Rosemary rang later and we had a little chat. Only a little one, because I&#8217;m not feeling so well right now. But by 18:00 I had succumbed, and went to fect the pillow and quilt.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to force down some dry biscuits later, but without any real enjoyment. And now I&#8217;m going back to bed.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what the doctor will have to say tomorrow.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-10026 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='10026' data-nonce='1e0df0e5c1' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-10026 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-10026 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='10026' data-nonce='1e0df0e5c1' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-10026 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-10026 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the bullet and I&#8217;ve arranged a doctor&#8217;s appointment for tomorrow morning. After last night, I was feeling rather better this morning. But to tell you how bad things really are, it took almost 2.5 hours of film on the laptop before I managed to fall asleep. I&#8217;m clearly not well, am I? I&#8217;d been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8925,44,4507,1616,8571,7876],"tags":[6723,7081,1302,5180,212,1712,2560,5565,8581,1731,7891,288],"class_list":["post-10026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boulangerie","category-coccinelle","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-place-darmes","tag-baguette","tag-boulangerie","tag-crash-out","tag-doctor","tag-dream","tag-early-night","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-lie-in","tag-place-darmes","tag-rosemary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10028,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026\/revisions\/10028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}