{"id":18364,"date":"2024-05-28T20:51:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=18364"},"modified":"2024-05-28T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:51:09","slug":"tuesday-28th-may-2024-you-are-requested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=18364","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 28th May 2024 &#8211; &#8220;YOU ARE REQUESTED &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to come for an appointment at the hospital at Avranches on Friday morning at 09:00. Ohhh &#8211; and bring your overnight things&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Things are moving faster than I even expected and it&#8217;s rather important because this weekend I have friends coming over from Germany to visit me. I bet that they didn&#8217;t expect to come to visit me in a hospital bed.<\/p>\n<p>But yet more visits? More visits this year than I&#8217;ve had in all the other years combined since I&#8217;ve been living here. Anyone would think that I&#8217;m dying or something.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I actually felt like dying. I&#8217;d done all that I could to have an early night and then the fates conspired against me, one thing led to another, and once you begin you&#8217;ve no idea how many other things there are. As a result I was late into bed once more.<\/p>\n<p>However I actually found it a little easier to crawl into bed last night and turning over through the pain barrier into the only position in which it&#8217;s possible at the moment to be comfortable was nothing like as painful as it has been<\/p>\n<p>My legs were well inside the bed too which meant that I didn&#8217;t fall out once which was an improvement on the previous night. Nevertheless I was awake a long time before the alarm went off and wandering around the bathroom when it finally did ring.<\/p>\n<p>No blood test today for some reason. He&#8217;s going to do it tomorrow, which probably means that I won&#8217;t have my injection of the Last Resort until Thursday, if it&#8217;s not too late by then<\/p>\n<p>But I do wish that he&#8217;d stop moaning. Things may well not be pleasant for him around here right now, but imagine how they are for me. Don&#8217;t you think that I&#8217;d change things if I could?<\/p>\n<p>After he left I had a listen to the dictaphone to find out where I&#8217;d been during the night. There wasn&#8217;t actually anything on it but that&#8217;s not to say that I didn&#8217;t go anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>In fact I had the greatest memory of another one of those really long dreams that I&#8217;m sifting through my head before I dictate them, just like the other night. This was a lengthy newspaper article that I was writing about how unjust it is to blame goalkeepers for their errors on the field. A keeper who lets a shot roll in under his body has no more lost the game for his club than the centre-forward who misses a sitter. Yet you see plenty of &#8220;goalkeeper error&#8221; videos but very rarely a &#8220;centre forward error&#8221; one.<\/p>\n<p>What started this. I suppose, was a game that I saw the other day between Annan Athletic Under 17s and Threave Rovers Under 17s when the Annan keeper was yellow-carded for &#8220;deliberate handball&#8221;  giving away a freekick that led to a goal by Threave Rovers. The game was being played on a sports centre pitch where there were five different sets of markings and he simply carried the ball out to the wrong set of lines. So what I was doing in my sleep was going through lists of games where a keeper had made a mistake and conceded a bad goal and a striker had missed a sitter in front of goal, and comparing who was blamed for the defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, each time that I thought that I&#8217;d had my list ready to dictate I remembered something else and had to start my list again. But I was awake before I could do that.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee and delicious flapjack were next, then back in here I didn&#8217;t do all that much for a while.<\/p>\n<p>A ring on the doorbell, a real one this times, jogged me into action. It was the doctor. He took one look at me and almost collapsed with shock.<\/p>\n<p>He gave me a good going-over and reckoned that I ought to have a spell in hospital &#8211; &#8220;and not just a couple of days either&#8221;. He&#8217;d &#8220;have a word with the nephrology professor&#8221; at Avranches about me <\/p>\n<p>So after he left I began to bring my medical file up-to-date, weeding out all of the time-expired stuff and adding in the new stuff. You&#8217;ve no idea how much has changed over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>My prescription &#8211; I&#8217;d given than to the nurse this morning. I had to print off another one along with yet more paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of all of this the hospital at Avranches rang up with the <em>convoquation<\/em>. So here we go.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, I had to book the taxi to take me. Secondly, I had to tell Paris where I was going just in case I can&#8217;t make their appointment on the 10th of June.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor&#8217;s office rang me back later too &#8220;there&#8217;s another medicament &#8230;&#8221; so I had to contact my poor cleaner. And having one hospital take me off the Burinex for something else, Avranches has now put me back on the Burinex. And that&#8217;s just as well because I never had these problems when I was taking that.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of all of this I&#8217;d been doing some radio stuff. I&#8217;d started by choosing some music for another programme but with the news that I had, I verified three more programmes and sent them off. I told you that it&#8217;s a good idea to have a few prepared in advance.<\/p>\n<p>At long last I could go for tea &#8211; a taco roll with rice and veg. Totally delicious as usual. I really do like my boring meals. They are totally different from what I&#8217;ll be eating in a few days time. I hope that some of you will be sending me food parcels.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s for another time. I&#8217;m living from day to day here &#8211; in fact, from minute to minute. Getting into bed is the next challenge<\/p>\n<p>The hospital should be fun &#8211; in the sense of interaction with others. I don&#8217;t see enough people, stranded as I am in my apartment. I know that regular readers of this rubbish will recall having told me that I need to get out more. <\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s going to be a struggle for them at Avranches. Last time I was there I heard more than one nurse say, as I was climbing into the taxi to take me home <strong><em>&#34;if he comes back, I&#8217;m leaving!&#34;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-18364 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='18364' data-nonce='8974fb1721' 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-18364 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-18364 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='18364' data-nonce='8974fb1721' 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-18364 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-18364 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to come for an appointment at the hospital at Avranches on Friday morning at 09:00. Ohhh &#8211; and bring your overnight things&#8221;. Things are moving faster than I even expected and it&#8217;s rather important because this weekend I have friends coming over from Germany to visit me. 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