{"id":10852,"date":"2018-07-06T16:54:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T16:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10852"},"modified":"2018-07-06T16:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T16:54:06","slug":"thursday-5th-july-what-a-depressing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10852","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 5th July – WHAT A DEPRESSING DAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"

But let’s not go getting ahead of ourselves.<\/p>\n

Last night was weird. I crashed out as soon as my head hit the pillow, woke up again after about half an hour, and then crashed out for good until about 04:30. <\/p>\n

And then of course, I dozed off again just a couple of minutes before the alarm went off.<\/p>\n

Consequently it was a very tired and weary me that hauled itself out of the stinking pit, and even a shower couldn’t really bring me round. I was feeling awful and for two pins I would have gone back to bed.<\/p>\n

But I have things to do, and so I staggered downstairs to the van.<\/p>\n

On the car park I met Hans who was loading up his van ready to leave, so we wished each other a good trip and like the Knights Of The Round Table<\/a>\"\", we each went our separate ways.<\/p>\n

There wasn’t all that much traffic on the motorway given the time of morning, so I made it to Leuven in good time. And it seems that my parking spec has been taken by someone else. So I parked in an empty spec and anticipated a row when I returned.<\/p>\n

The walk from there up the hill to the hospital was a long, weary walk and I almost didn’t make it. “I’m definitely not feeling myself today” I said, and just as well too because it’s a disgusting habit.<\/p>\n

At the hospital I was early so I had to wait around for a while. And the first lot of bad news is that my weight has gone up by 3kg. Hardly a surprise seeing as I’ve been without my tablets for 12 days.<\/p>\n

Plugged in and switched on, I slept for most of the day. With just the occasional awakening from the medical staff. And it was during one of those awakenings that I had some even more bad news.<\/p>\n

The protein loss has doubled to just over 2.0 and the red blood count has collapsed to 8.8. No wonder I’ve been feeling so ill today.<\/p>\n

They are totally dismayed by that and they want to bring me forward to three-weekly visits. That is out of the question for the next visit so we agreed on Monday August 6th – which means that I’ll be travelling back to Belgium with Alison.<\/p>\n

And the one after that will be on August 27th, which is also bad news and rules out any possibility of going to North America.<\/p>\n

Eventually they threw me out and I headed for Caliburn. Loads of things that I wanted to do but I just wasn’t up to any of them. No-one had said anything about Caliburn being in the wrong place, so we all came back to Li\u00e8ge, stopping off at Bio Planet for some vegan cheese and vegan sausages.<\/p>\n

The traffic in Li\u00e8ge was horrendous yet again and it took ages to reach the hotel. By now I was thoroughly and completely tired and fed up so I went straight to bed and that was that.<\/p>\n

It’s been a very bad day.<\/p>\n

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