WEEKEND UPDATE
Advantages of having Cancer –
1/. Free parking at the
hospital. (So long as you can find a space)
2/. Friends buy you
Cheese boards!
3/. Free prescriptions.
(Psst……. Anyone want to buy some drugs?)
4/. Ability to
criticise Ref’s without recourse (C’mon, I’m ill!)
5/. Immediate access to
A&E – Every cancer patient is given a book which outlines possible side
effects of the treatment they’re undertaking. It’s a traffic light system.
Green is suck it up big boy. Orange, give the ward a ring. Red, get your ass
down to A&E without passing go or collecting £200. Well on Saturday night I
had a bit of a “Red” problem. Oh great I thought, A&E on a Saturday night,
may as well take that unread copy of War & Peace to keep me going. Well how
wrong could I be? On arrival it’s a case of show the receptionist your cancer
book, she then sends you straight through to triage, seen by a nurse within 5
minutes, put into a single room & seen by a Dr. within 30 minutes. Diagnosed,
treated & on our way home whilst the good folk of Reading were still
partying hard.
Other than the quick
trip up to A&E it was a pretty uneventful weekend. A couple of trips to OBR
to watch some rugby, some decent food (Thai Sea Bass on Saturday, beef
casserole with herby dumplings on Sunday) & quite a lot of rest. It was
good to see the Colts back in action on Sunday following their weather break,
even if the match was marred by possibly the worst performance by a Ref that I’ve
seen in a number of years. To the credit of the young Rams players they buckled
down & realised that they weren’t going to change his attitude, so just get
on with it. Also Max managed to half complete his “Chip ‘n Chase” challenge,
hopefully put to bed now for the season.
#shouldertoshoulder
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