{"id":11947,"date":"2019-03-19T00:19:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T00:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11947"},"modified":"2019-03-26T13:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T13:28:32","slug":"monday-18th-march-2019-its-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11947","title":{"rendered":"Monday 18th March 2019 – IT’S HOSPITAL …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… day today. And so I need to be on form.<\/p>\n

Consequently I had something of an early night last night. Plenty of time to go on a little voyage too, even if I did awaken at sometime round about 03:45. It’s not very often that my old friend Liz (who died 10 years ago) appears with me in a nocturnal ramble. But there she was last night. I’d been living abroad for a couple of years and I was on my way back to Crewe with her in Caliburn. We arrived back at my house (which was actually our old home in Shavington) to find my old black cat Tuppence outside the door – despite my instructions that the cats weren’t to go out. And she was very thin too – as if she hadn’t eaten anything for weeks. Inside, the other three cats were scratching away at some dried biscuits, despite my instructions that they were only to have tinned food, not dried. I was pretty annoyed about this and wanted to speak to the girl who was looking after the cats. But while I was thinking of this I heard a noise from out of the bedroom. She was actually in there making use of the double bed and a boyfriend. Not the kind of thing to arouse my sympathy.<\/p>\n

Despite the alarms going off as usual, there wasn’t a great deal of rush. My appointment with doom isn’t until 10:30 so I had a little lie-in until about 07:00. A shower and a clothes wash and a general clean-up and I was ready for the road.<\/p>\n

\"roadworks<\/a>Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that when we were here before, they were digging up the Tiensestraat and laying pipes.<\/p>\n

They seem to have finished that now, and have moved all of the equipment to the Burgemeestersstraat where they are presumably continuing the work.<\/p>\n

I wonder how long they’ll be working on replacing the drains around the city?
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\"rebuilding<\/a>Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that for a year or so I lived in the Brusselsestraat quite close to the St Jakobs Kapelle.<\/p>\n

However I never ever managed to go in for a look around because it was all closed up.<\/p>\n

Apparently it’s in need of some considerable amount of renovation
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\"rebuilding<\/a>But when I went past it today the door was open (although I couldn’t go in because there was a fence around it) and there was a pile of scaffolding up all around it.<\/p>\n

It looks as if the renovations have finally started. That’s good news, if they can get it to stay up, but I wonder just how thorough these renovations are likely to be.<\/p>\n

I hope that they are going to make a really decent spectacle out of it
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For some reason, for which I’m not sure, it was something of a struggle to get to the hospital today. I had to make several stops on my way up the hill to the hospital.<\/p>\n

The heat didn’t help much and I had to stop and divest myself of my outer clothing. It had been cold when I had set out, but it didn’t half warm up quickly.<\/p>\n

The nurse today was the only one who speaks just Flemish so we had my insertion interview in that language. I’m getting quite good at this these days.<\/p>\n

But the interesting thing is that the weight that I had lost when I was ill – it stayed off too. And I’m happy about that. And so should you lot too, because it means that in about 18 months at this rate, I’ll be gone completely.<\/p>\n

The doctor came to see me too. And if she’s going to be on my case for the foreseeable future, I’ll be back next week, never mind next month, even though she forgot to sign my prescription and I had to argue at the chemists later.<\/p>\n

As for the blood count, it’s down to 9.7. Something of a disappointment but only to be expected after my illness. At least the drop wasn’t as dramatic as the time 15 months ago when it fell through the floor.<\/p>\n

Another thing that I did was to ask them to check my selenium levels. Robert, a former schoolmate who is a regular reader of this rubbish and is a retired doctor, came up with a couple of suggestions. A Selenium shortage is one, so seeing as they are testing the blood anyway, they can test for that too. But I can’t have these results for a day or two.<\/p>\n

But I grabbed a copy of the rest of the results and when I’m back home, I’ll scan it so that Robert can see it. Unfortunately, it didn’t have the previous month’s figures to compare.<\/p>\n

There seems to be an issue about my potassium levels too, so I need to cut back on the Coversyl that I take.<\/p>\n

Rosemary phoned me too and we had a lengthy chat, and I had a little snooze too while I was there.<\/p>\n

On the way home I stopped for the medication and also at Delhaize for some food for tea. Alison wasn’t up to going for a meal tonight so I’m eating in.<\/p>\n

And Ingrid telephoned me too. She’s struggling a little with her health issues but her illness has now been properly diagnosed. While it’s not good news either, at least she knows what is the matter with her and she’s been taken in charge by her health assurance people and will receive the proper treatment.<\/p>\n

And that’s my lot. Not much good news but it could be far worse than it is. I’m having a lie-in tomorrow as a Day of rest, but I have things to do in Brussels.<\/p>\n

And so on that note, I’m off for an early night.<\/p>\n

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