… time in the caf\u00e9 this evening.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Ahh well.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n
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;<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
It’s really not my day, is it?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure what, but Alison and I saw a trip to Cape Verde that could be interesting.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
We had another sorbet for pudding and then walked down to the cafe on the canalside where I had my adventure with the glass.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
And even as we speak the power comes back on. So I might have a decent sleep yet.<\/p>\n
