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Thank you, Brian and Steve. It’s weird how kindness makes us cry! I think of all the tough conversation I’ve had and got through and yet when somebody is kind I dissolve into tears! I still do bits and bobs of work and this was after a meeting but before we knew about the RT delay! So unprofessional on my behalf! Then the Rt delay started me off again! And…I couldn’t stop. 

the thing is, if you, as a 67 year old man, Brian, had been sitting in the pub laughing, neither you nor anyone around you would have had a second thought about it! Both are expressions of human emotions! Why are tears, and more so in men, considered so negatively?

as you say, Steve, delays do happen! I think one of the things this PC has done has been to take away our control of our own lives. We have always stayed in the uk in the summer and escaped winter for a sunshine break. We haven’t been able to do that because of insurance costs. Our lives seem to revolve around hospital appointments - urology today!  

I think you really are on the home stretch now, Brian. I hope the fatigue is not too bad?. That bell is there waiting for you to ring!  

Thanks to you all for your support!

Thank you!  I think we were both surprised by just how much this affected us!  After all, thinking rationally, it’s just one day!  I absolutely understand the huge demands on the NHS and that machinery has to be maintained but it was so unsettling for some silly reason! We have just wanted to get through this nightmare - like everyone else, I guess!

Just wait!  As you get to my advanced age it's nearly all the social activity I get - going to appoointments, trying to get appointments, talking about appointments, waiting for appointments, discussing medication with neighbours, relatives and friends and all things related to medical appointments.  That reminds me got to get off and collect my prescription this morning as got my second cataract operation tomorrow!  See what I mean

WW 

You seem to be in a better way this morning.  And long may it last.

Ha Ha! I used to put all the blame on the hormones but I can use RT as an excuse now as well!

Rt is going well - I do feel tired and yes there is fatigue but Mrs Millibob has told me to listen to my body - so I am doing as I am told - although she wasn't best pleased yesterday when I emerged from the pit gone 8.00am when I usually get up at 6.30am. The toilet is now my new best friend.

Perhaps they are keeping us all alive longer so they can keep themselves in work? ! Hope all goes well with the op!  My husband had one removed about 18 months ago. The most irksome thing was the shield he had to wear over his eye for, I think, 24 hours, and the eye drop regime! A small price to pay looking back but tedious at the time!

so long as they don’t make me sit in an incontinence- proof chair singing ‘it’s a long way to Tipperary’ or playing bingo, I will plod on

Brian, that's 3/4 done after today.  I bet it has just flown by.

See your last post is under review, must have used a taboo word.

I know there are 3 words together that the system doesn't like.  Won't say them, I am trying to be good!

Hope your op goes well tomorrow.

Oh dear! We only get up as early as 8am if we have something planned! I 6 am is the middle of the night!  Sorry to hear about the need for the bathroom. Have you changed your diet? My husband has been advised to eat a low fibre diet….but…I have  a high fibre diet! I don’t quite know how we are going to manage this one!!! He’s also been told he must drink plenty of water and avoid caffeine!

Perhaps a bit more rational? If that’s possible!!!!