Holby City

My life is getting more like Holby City every minute..only 4 weeks out of Notts City hospital,(to the day!) and back in again at Mansfield Kings Mill Hospital (for the first time) with fluid on the chest and a chest infection. After a night in A&E I got moved to my own single room with en suite shower & toilet and great views over the town..last time I had that luxury was at the Hilton in Basel Switzerland back in the 1990's. Spent 8 days in altogether and thankfully they decided not to drain one of my lungs which they had been threatening to do but increased my diuretics and put me on super strength IV Anti-biotics and now a similar oral dose to take for 3 more weeks, then I guess we'll see. My chest is now much better with not so many coughing fits and more productive gubbins coming up. One of my post op wounds has now healed and the other wound has started granulating a bit for the first time, (the tissue nurse found a metal staple in there when she was cutting away the necrotic flesh!). Also the necrotic tissue on the ends of my my right big and second toe is gradually dropping off. Otherwise most of my other post op symptoms are clearing up well and although still quite breathless I can look after myself pretty well with the continued help of my long suffering sister Jo who shops for me and often cooks an evening meal for us.. Half way through the week met two auxillery staff that turned out to be ex class mates at my old secondary school. This is the first time in decades that I've contacted anyone from my school years and it was great to know that we can still have a laugh and interesting to find out what has happened to everyone. That really made my week the bulk of which I spent fleshing out a new book in my head and notebook. The book I've been working on for the past 8 years seems quite redundant after my near death experience... too tight and theological and not fun enough. I will be using some of the stuff from the old book so it certainly hasn't been all a waste and as the main purpose of it was to study in more depth and clarify my beliefs anyway. Post NDE I realise how simple it all is really and there's no need to complicate things with too much technical data and theological speculations. Just got a new book by David Byrne from 'Talking Heads' fame called 'How Music Works' based mainly on the realisation that set and setting, musical mediums, technology etc are crucially important to the enjoyment of music. This ties in with one of the topics in my new book that is dealing with the digital 80's. Hopefully I'll have some new writings on my updated website before long and I'm working on posting some new Mighty Doghead tracks up pretty soon so don't forget to visit and download anything you like. I am currently setting up a small studio in my bedroom as I figure the shed is going to be a bit too draughty for my chest over the winter and this and my writing/study and also my woodcarving business is keeping me plenty busy enough though I'm treading carefully and getting plenty of rest in between tasks basically cos I have too. Quite a few people have asked if they can visit me but I am having to limit the amount of people I can see as I get easily exhausted at the moment by social encounters. So please do not be offended if I say no to your requests. I really appreciate the level of support, prayers, and positive vibes you have all given me, I don't think I would be here writing this now without that to be truthful. Hopefully I'll get strong enough over the next few months to start participating once again in a fuller social life, though I must warn you that I am fully tea total and asexual these days so I don't know how much fun I'm going to be! Take care everyone and strive for pure consciousness. xx