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What happens if I have a break? The Demise of Roland Ratso has been a lifeline – only because of the positive comments and I am not sure what to do if we are on our holidays. I suppose I could regale you with some other ramblings. The four years to get a passport is always a good one. And the many adventures we had with my father. Dunno. I suppose we will have to see where it all goes. My appointment is 1350 today with…

But the icing on the cake was when I was walking down to the club and there were two young girls aged probably five or six by the post box. They both stared at me and then as I had passed them one said to the other “That’s the real Santa that is.” It made my Christmas. Another time I was dressed as Santa and guested at the Leisure Centre. The welfare has got a beautiful hand made robe and a professional wig and beard…

Thursday night and Roland is still extracting his revenge. Don’t know where the poo has come from. I haven’t eaten that much. All bloody night long. Hardly off the porcelain. Big run on the toilet rolls. I have changed my appointment to ten to eleven because I have an all day conference to go to but I have got no chance. Aside form the fact that I have still got the diholyhohayes I feel like absolute rubbish and all I…

I had already phoned up the radiography department from the ward and they said I could just call in for a shot providing the consultant said it was OK and they were true to their word. I told them I was like a bag lady – I had a large (recyclable) carrier bag with my pyjamas and dressing gown and other chattels, another bag with my three weeks of antibiotics and my Tupperware box with my normal drugs. Plonking all of…

Sunday morning and another bowl of milky porridge then four hour obs – temperature, blood pressure, blood sugar and pulse are becoming a tad monotonous. Sitting around waiting for the doctor. “Hello” He said, “I am extremely perturbed about your blood results” Oh shit!, I thought, what’s up now. He explained, “ I am concerned about your results because I haven’t seen them – they have got lost in the system.” Ah the…