{"id":5260,"date":"2015-12-23T20:23:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T20:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=5260"},"modified":"2015-12-23T20:23:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T20:23:18","slug":"wednesday-23rd-december-2015-i-knew-that-it-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=5260","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 23rd December 2015 – I KNEW THAT IT WAS A MISTAKE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… to drink that half-litre of sparkling water with blackcurrant syrup last night. I was up and down like a yo-yo all through the night and I didn’t really have a very decent sleep because of it. Serve me right.<\/p>\n

And the film that I saw – the James T Wong film – was the first time that I’d seen it. It was the first one of the series apparently and Boris Karloff had only a supporting role rather than the lead role that he had later in the series. And the film lost quite a lot because of it. The plot was rather thin and the denou\u00e9ment<\/em> was rather weak. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I was up at the usual time, had my injection and then had my breakfast. It was about 11:00 when everyone was ready to leave and so while they shot off to Montlucon and shopping, I went round to my house to check it over and relax for a while. Surprisingly (or maybe it isn’t), even though the day was grey and depressing, the batteries were fully-charged and the water was heating up nicely.<\/p>\n

I headed off to Montlucon at about 14:00 and went to Carrefour, but I couldn’t remember what it was that I wanted to buy so it was rather pointless. And then I went off to the hospital.<\/p>\n

16:30 was my appointment, and so I was seen bang on 17:45, and least I now know what they think might be up with me. Apparently I have a lymphoma of the ganglions, and the cure for that is quite drastic. They intend to take out my spleen. The spleen is also the organ that controls a great deal of the immune system and so while removing the spleen MIGHT (and only “might”) solve the lymphoma problem, it might provoke problems all of its own.<\/p>\n

But it did lead to an interesting dialogue –
\nDoctor – “I’m afraid we are going to have to take your spleen out”<\/strong>
\nOur Hero – “Blimey – isn’t that a really difficult operation?”<\/strong>
\nDoctor – “Rubbish! Generations of surgeons have been taking the backbone out of politicians for almost 100 years! It’s child’s play by comparison!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway, after the holidays, they will arrange an appointment for me with the surgeon and the anaesthetist and we’ll see what happens then.<\/p>\n

So rather chastened by the news I headed back here to tell Liz.<\/p>\n

Liz – “Are they going to do that here?”<\/strong>
\nOur Hero – “No Liz – not in the kitchen”<\/strong> <\/p>\n

To cheer me up, there was home-made ice-cream. The strawberry was excellent but as for my inspiration of the choco-mint-chip (made by the simple expedient of grinding up a mint-chocolate bar into a litre of coconut milk), it was astonishingly good. I was amazed.<\/p>\n

At least that cheered me up. And I needed cheering up too because that wasn’t the only bad news that I had had. I mentioned to the doctor the story about the twice-daily injections and she confirmed that unfortunately they do have to continue. <\/p>\n

So I shan’t be having my lie-in after all. Drat and double-drat! <\/p>\n

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