{"id":5419,"date":"2016-03-01T18:23:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2016-03-10T07:29:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T07:29:40","slug":"monday-1st-march-2016-i-had-a-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=5419","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 1st March 2016 &#8211; I HAD A PHONE CALL &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; this morning, but it wasn&#8217;t necessarily the one that I was expecting.<\/p>\n<p>>round about 10:15, while Terry was out cutting wood, the phone went off. &#8220;Mr Hall, this is the hospital. The Doctor has seen your blood test results and thinks that you should come in for a transfusion right away&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So at last, someone seems to have taken notice of what is going on with my blood. But as I have said before &#8230; <em>&#34;and at great length too&#34; &#8211; ed<\/em> &#8230; a blood transfusion isn&#8217;t the answer. I could have kept on having these without the need to have suffered all of the agony in having my spleen removed. <\/p>\n<p>But I told them that there was no chance of me going in at that time of day. Terry would have to run me, and then sit around all day until it&#8217;s done and he&#8217;s got plenty of work to do. And so we agreed that I&#8217;ll be going in tomorrow. Liz has a short day so she&#8217;ll take me in and bring me back. It&#8217;ll mean that I&#8217;ll have to sit around for a couple of hours in the hospital but that&#8217;s my problem, not anyone else&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I had a quiet night and didn&#8217;t go anywhere. And I do mean &#8220;anywhere&#8221; too &#8211; not even down the corridor for a ride on the porcelain horse. That is &#8211; I did go at 06:30 but seeing as how I didn&#8217;t go back to sleep afterwards and that it was nearly getting-up time, that doesn&#8217;t count. But no nocturnal voyage either &#8211; I must have slept the sleep of the dead last night.<\/p>\n<p>As for today though, I&#8217;ve finished all of the dictaphone notes. Every last one of them. I would be going round to my house tomorrow where I could burn a DVD with everything on it, but I cancelled that idea yesterday as you know and in any case, I&#8217;ve the blood transfusion tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Tea was one of Liz&#8217;s home-made vegan pies with new potatoes and beans, and didn&#8217;t that taste so nice? It made me feel so much better, that I promise you. What with the left-over pasta and tomato sauce for lunch, what more could any person desire?<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m off for another short walk in a bit and then I&#8217;ll be having a good wash and shave ready for tomorrow. After all, I must look my best. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m bitterly disappointed with you lot from yesterday. 29th of February and I didn&#8217;t even get one proposal of marriage. You miserable bunch!<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-5419 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='5419' data-nonce='6b9557f122' 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-5419 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-5419 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='5419' data-nonce='6b9557f122' 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-5419 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-5419 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; this morning, but it wasn&#8217;t necessarily the one that I was expecting. >round about 10:15, while Terry was out cutting wood, the phone went off. &#8220;Mr Hall, this is the hospital. The Doctor has seen your blood test results and thinks that you should come in for a transfusion right away&#8221;. So at last, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,330,307],"tags":[5182,1712,2560,5565,5911,261,277,5377,1632,6265],"class_list":["post-5419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-liz_terry-messenger","category-sauret-besserve","tag-blood-transfusion","tag-early-night","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-hospital","tag-liz-terry-messenger","tag-montlucon-2","tag-sauret-besserve","tag-vegan-food","tag-vegan-pie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","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=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5443,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions\/5443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}