The Carpentry and the Return<\/p>\n
I was lucky enough to be required at the hospital at a reasonable time, long after the crack of dawn, to have a good friend to take me and to check I surfaced from the anaesthetic in a reasonable way before heading to her own home. \u00a0Unlike the first two staff I\u2019d encountered, staff in the theatre suite, irrespective of position was a refreshing group of people, who were smiley and appeared happy to be at work.\u00a0 Ensuing days produced more characters of both ilk among staff and patients including one, who after being moved into my room during the night then thought it perfectly OK to turn on her own TV on at 5.30am and jolted me awake. \u00a0The registered nurse who was present hadn\u2019t considered it necessary to stop her at any stage.\u00a0 It came to the patient\u2019s notice that her neighbour was not happy about the noise so there was high drama with tears and repeated moving of bed and lockers. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A day or so later she was replaced by a delightful, chirpy, elderly woman who lent me her magazines to read which I did between my regular \u201cnanna naps\u201d.\u00a0 If only I could remember I would know all the latest doings of today\u2019s celebrities.\u00a0 I was lucky enough to be well away from occasional prolonged drawn out wailings which were no more than a distant backdrop to the normal hum of a ward.<\/p>\n
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My discharge date was a movable feast which was OK by me.\u00a0 The hospital appeared keen to receive feedback with someone running around with some kind of machine to record it.\u00a0 The person responsible wasn\u2019t around prior to my departure and by that time I couldn\u2019t be bothered.\u00a0 Nearly a lifetime of working in areas of nursing and rights creates a certain mindset which sees issues and room for improvement where others see nothing amiss. \u00a0What Son Number 3 calls my negativity.\u00a0 \u00a0On the whole it was a satisfactory experience and in many ways superior to days of old but with room for numerous areas of improvement.\u00a0 The ward resident was a competent, kindly soul for whom I have great expectations.<\/p>\n
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Jessie\u2019s alimentary tract didn\u2019t cope with long incarnations in the house during my hospitalization and she was soon ejected to an outside existence.\u00a0 Fortunately the weather had improved and the dogs coped with the slightly warmer nights.\u00a0 They continue to live outside at night as I don\u2019t have the energy to be up and down to them nor the ability to clean up accidents.\u00a0 However, Phantom was sick yesterday and I had to find a way of cleaning it without, hopefully damaging my hip.<\/p>\n
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Son Number 2 visited yesterday as part of his \u201cChecking on Mother\u201d and \u201cPlaying with the Dogs\u201d exercise. \u00a0Since I am frightened of going down the back steps onto a hard surface I asked him to feed Floyd.\u00a0 It should have been a simple exercise of sticking an arm in the aviary and tipping the seed into the bowl.\u00a0 When I looked out the door he was on his haunches outside the aviary with Floyd on his back.\u00a0 Floyd had attacked and bitten his ear.\u00a0 Fortunately Floyd decided to fly back into the aviary rather than off into the wide blue yonder.\u00a0 I\u2019d been told Floyd didn\u2019t like him but never seen it in action before.<\/p>\n
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Today a couple of friends visited.\u00a0 We had a lovely picnic in the sun and then they did a few jobs, including the walking of Kerry and Phantom.\u00a0 Poor Phantom hadn\u2019t walked far enough to relinquish the lead from his mouth before I\u2019d had enough and returned home. \u00a0He has a cute way of walking with his lead in his mouth until we get a fair distance and then he\u2019s prepared to release it and put everything into investigating the aromas along his journey. \u00a0It will be a long time before I am steady enough to walk him; need to concentrate on walking myself which is pretty boring.<\/p>\n
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Other people have helped me in various ways over the last weeks.\u00a0 Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to making my life and that of the critters less difficult.<\/p>\n
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