{"id":19900,"date":"2025-04-26T21:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T21:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=19900"},"modified":"2025-04-27T06:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:24:53","slug":"saturday-26th-apri-l-2025-guess-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=19900","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 26th Apri l 2025 &#8211; GUESS WHERE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I am right now!<\/p>\n<p>Anyone say &#8220;The Emergency Department of the hospital at Avranches&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>If you did, then I&#8217;m afraid that you are wrong. That was earlier in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m in a bed in a ward in the hospital, thinking to myself &#8220;it&#8217;s been a while, hasn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last night there wasn&#8217;t the slightest hint of this. I was in bed quite early again, not long after 23:00 in fact and looking forward to a good night&#8217;s sleep.<\/p>\n<p>And good it was too, all the way through to &#8230; errrr &#8230; 05:30 when I had another dramatic awakening. This morning though I couldn&#8217;t go back to sleep and so when the alarm went off at 07:00 not only was I sitting at my desk working, I had, in reverse order, had my medication, had a shave, washed my clothes, washed myself and, the <em>pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance<\/em>, dictated all my radio notes from earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Then I dictated most of the dictaphone notes, and you won&#8217;t believe how many there are. But you&#8217;ll have to wait a while to see them unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>The nurse came today and we had a really good chat for once &#8211; he was in a much better humour than I expected him to be.<\/p>\n<p>After he left I made breakfast and read some more of <a href=\"https:\/\/ia601304.us.archive.org\/9\/items\/medievalmilitary02clar\/medievalmilitary02clar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">MY BOOK<\/a> but if you want to share in it, you&#8217;ll have to wait until I&#8217;m back home.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast I finished the dictaphone notes and then, in a mad fit of energy, I attacked the radio notes for the eleventh track for programme 260306 (I think).<\/p>\n<p>Once that was completed and assembled I gave some serious thought to starting the next but was overwhelmed by an attack of nausea and a stabbing pain in my stomach, as if I&#8217;d swallowed a brick. It slowly became worse and worse and by 11:00 I was back in bed.<\/p>\n<p>When it was time to prepare for dialysis I struggled (and it was a struggle) to my feet. My cleaner took one look at me and telephoned the dialysis centre to tell them how bad I was. She and the taxi driver had to help me to the car.<\/p>\n<p>At the dialysis centre they had a room waiting for me and a doctor (not Emilie the Cute Consultant, unfortunately) standing by and he gave me a thorough going-over and they took a blood sample I fell on the bed and crashed out The drive down there had been awful<\/p>\n<p>When I awoke, a nurse was waiting for me. <strong><em>&#34;I&#8217;m afraid to say that when you have finished here, you are going over the road to the hospital. It&#8217;s your pancreas&#34;<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Again? It&#8217;s already given out once, before I left the UK and I remember the agony that I was in at times. Since then, I&#8217;ve been scrupulously avoiding all kinds of animal fats. So what&#8217;s gone wrong now? What&#8217;s going to be the next proscribed food product?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it would happen to be a day where not only could I go home early, my favourite taxi driver had been rostered to take me home.<\/p>\n<p>They took me on a stretcher in an ambulance across the road to the hospital and here I am, sharing a room with someone else, something that I don&#8217;t do very well. My faithful cleaner was waiting for me with another neighbour who had brought her down. And she had all of my things too. The dialysis centre had &#8216;phoned her.<\/p>\n<p>The worse news is that I&#8217;m not allowed food until tomorrow morning. That means that I will have been twenty-four hours without food. I&#8217;m not allowed to drink very much either.<\/p>\n<p>There was time to watch one of the football matches that I had wanted to see. Caernarfon were really slow to start and were 1-0 down after five minutes, and could easily have been down 4-0 in the first twenty minutes.<\/p>\n<p>However, once they warmed up, they were unstoppable and the final score of 5-2 doesn&#8217;t reflect the overwhelming superiority that Caernarfon had.<\/p>\n<p>So right now, I&#8217;m off to sleep, it I can, ready to see what these examinations show tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>But seeing as I have been talking about the nurses  &#8230; <em>&#34;well, one of us has&#34; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; the one waiting by my bedside earlier said <strong><em>&#34;you have acute pancreas&#34;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>&#34;Thank you&#34;<\/em><\/strong> I replied. <strong><em>&#34;I&#8217;m so glad that you like it&#34;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-19900 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='19900' data-nonce='ef4fe606fb' 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-19900 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-19900 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='19900' data-nonce='ef4fe606fb' 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-19900 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-19900 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I am right now! Anyone say &#8220;The Emergency Department of the hospital at Avranches&#8221;? If you did, then I&#8217;m afraid that you are wrong. That was earlier in the afternoon. Right now I&#8217;m in a bed in a ward in the hospital, thinking to myself &#8220;it&#8217;s been a while, hasn&#8217;t it?&#8221; Last night there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900","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=19900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19906,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19900\/revisions\/19906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}