{"id":20199,"date":"2025-07-21T21:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20199"},"modified":"2025-07-26T09:29:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:29:50","slug":"tuesday-21st-july-2025-that-was-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=20199","title":{"rendered":"Monday 21st July 2025 &#8211; THAT WAS THE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; quickest drive to Paris that I have ever had.<\/p>\n<p>We left Avranches at 18:30 with an estimated travel time of 3.06 which is what it tells us almost every time, although with the heavy traffic around Caen and particularly around Paris, it&#8217;s much closer to four hours Today, though, we pulled up at the Haematology Department here at the Hospital Piti\u00e9-Salpetri\u00e8re at 21:24 &#8211; a trip of less than three hours. <\/p>\n<p>The first time that we actually had to slow down for traffic (never mind stop) was on the <em>Prif<\/em> about two miles from the Porte d&#8217;Italie, and then it was only a momentary braking and we kept on going.<\/p>\n<p>And we won&#8217;t ever have a trip like that again.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I was looking forward to it either. Last night was another one of those nights that went on and on and I wasn&#8217;t able to make much progress. I was hoping to be in bed early but once more, it ended up being round about 23:45 when I finally crept into bed.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I stayed asleep for very long either. For the past few weeks I&#8217;ve been having one of these heavy summer colds and I awoke with a streaming head and a stuffed-up nose, feeling very uncomfortable indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all my trying, I couldn&#8217;t go back to sleep and in the end I abandoned the procedure, left the bed, and had a listen to the dictaphone to find out where I&#8217;d been. A friend of mine was out there walking his dog last night amongst a crowd of people but that&#8217;s all that I remember of this dream. The rest of it seems to have evaporated as soon as I went to pick up the dictaphone and I wasn&#8217;t able to dictate any more than that.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all there was, which is hardly a surprise because if you don&#8217;t go to bed until 23:45 and you are up and about at 03:30 the following morning, there hasn&#8217;t been all that much time to go very far<\/p>\n<p>Having dealt with that, such as it was, I had a listen to the radio programme that I&#8217;ll be sending off for broadcast this week. I didn&#8217;t like the voice at all so I re-mixed and re-edited it. It&#8217;s not much better now but I sent it off anyway. <\/p>\n<p>Having done that, I wrote the notes for another radio programme that was in the middle of the queue for which I&#8217;d sorted out the music quite a while ago, and then I sorted out the music for another one and began to write the notes It was what one would call a &#8220;productive morning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Isabelle the Nurse&#8217;s last morning today for a week, so she was extremely busy with blood samples and injections that folk don&#8217;t want her oppo to do, so she didn&#8217;t have time to hang around.<\/p>\n<p>After she left, I made breakfast and read some more of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/in.ernet.dli.2015.274449\" target=\"_blank\">MY BOOK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our author is still on his prowl around the churches, but also mentions the situation where <strong><em>&#34;the houses of London were built of stone for defence of fire, which kind of building was used for two hundred years or more &#34;<\/em><\/strong> but lately, <strong><em>&#34;houses of timber set up in place&#34;<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the seeds of the Great Fire of London already being sown.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast, I made some sandwiches for Paris and packed my backpack, fitting in all kinds of goodies to keep the <em>lupus<\/em> from the <em>porte<\/em> as they would have said in Ancient Rome &#8230; <em>&#34;well, puer amat mensam!&#34; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; and then I was back in here to carry on with my radio programme.<\/p>\n<p>However, I did have a brief power nap of about 10 minutes. This early start is playing havoc with my body clock.<\/p>\n<p>My cleaner turned up on time to fit my patches and then we had a chat about moving stuff about. While we were at it, she moved the two boxes that I had packed yesterday and took them downstairs where I&#8217;ll empty them on Wednesday or Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>While she was here, I told her about the very uneasy feeling that I have about this trip to Paris. I can&#8217;t explain why, but I&#8217;ve been uncomfortable about it all day and all last night. And I&#8217;m spoiling for a fight, but for no good reason, and I&#8217;m not there yet. Things are not going my way.<\/p>\n<p>The taxi driver wasn&#8217;t very helpful today. He&#8217;s clearly not used to dealing with the elderly and the infirm, but he&#8217;ll have to learn, and quickly too.<\/p>\n<p>At Avranches, once more I was one of the last to be coupled up and it was as painful as I have ever had. And one of the punctures missed its aim, and that made it worse.<\/p>\n<p>What with this early start, I wanted to go to sleep, but no such luck. The doctor who doesn&#8217;t like his work, he was on duty and he shook me awake. They are afraid that I&#8217;ll have another crisis, I reckon.<\/p>\n<p>He stayed around so we had quite a chat. I told him about the uneasy feeling that I&#8217;ve had all day but he wasn&#8217;t much help on that score. In the end, he left me to it and I could crack on.<\/p>\n<p>Unplugging me was complicated too and once more, I was one of the last to leave, not helped by confusion at the weighing machine. However, we thrashed through the <em>autoroutes<\/em> with its accidents and overturned artic lorry (and I&#8217;m sure that you are thinking that I&#8217;m making this up) and arrived nice and early.<\/p>\n<p>A nurse eventually took me to my room and my driver could leave, and then they took a blood sample. I valiantly resisted the idea of a perfusion and rehydration (why take two litres of water out at dialysis and then immediately put half a litre back in?) and they even brought me some food &#8211; of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m off to bed, ready to fight the good fight in the operating theatre tomorrow morning, and then the chemotherapy begins.<\/p>\n<p>But before I go, seeing as we have been talking about the nurse here &#8230; <em>&#34;well, one of us has&#34; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; he looked at my notes and said <strong><em>&#34;you have acute anaemia&#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-20199 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='20199' data-nonce='998a3e539c' 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-20199 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-20199 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='20199' data-nonce='998a3e539c' 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-20199 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-20199 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; quickest drive to Paris that I have ever had. 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