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  • Roland's Revenge Chapter 41

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    Last Wednesday, 17th March I got invited to be a patient for 5th year medical students who were taking their final exams. I had done it before at the City Hospital but this time it was at the Queen’s Medical Centre. The taxi turned up at ten past eight and by nine o’clock I was on the examination couch in my gown. The students have to do twelve practical exams and they had all twelve programmed in one morning so it was…

  • Roland's Revenge: Chapter 40

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    When I got off the Medilink bus I was tapped on the shoulder by one of the trainee nurses who was on the ward when I was in hospital. He is a mature student. A VERY mature student having just finished his first year at the age of 46. He is genuinely pleased that I am up and about and I tell him that I am making progress, albeit very slowly.
     
    My G.P. is fifty minutes late which must be a record even by her standards…

  • Roland's Revenge: Chapter 39

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    Another cunning plan has gone wrong! I got some free samples of skin cleanser that is used to remove dried on glue from the stoma bag site. My glasses lens was very grubby so I decided to clean them with the wipes. I wiped my lenses with them and they melted!  It’s a good job it was only my £2.99 pair from ASDA and not my £171 pair from the opticians. It is now like looking through a bathroom window. A steamed up bathroom…

  • Roland's Refenge: Chapter 38

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    Irene brought me breakfast in bed for my Valentine. Along with a lovely card. When we went to the shops on Saturday I sent Irene to the co-op while I doubled back to the veg shop and bought her a bunch of flowers which I hid in the boot of the car.
     
    The other part of my cunning plan was to go to Argos on a pretext and buy her a TV for the bedroom. I have resisted her pleas for a telly in the bedroom because she will…

  • Roland's Revenge Chapter 37

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    The Wilkie curse has struck again! On examining the scar on my face I have realised that the surgeon has taken the wrong mole off my face. Looking at the scar I couldn’t understand why it was so low and then I realised that she had taken off another mole which was lower down. Another legend to relate to the grand children!
     
    One of my nurses has been off work with a bad back. She limped out of our house and we…
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