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Category Archive for 'Hospital'

Yet another unexpected absence…

Posted in Health, Hospital on Jul 14th, 2010

Hello everyone, once again I’ve been ambushed by health issues and have been away for a while. On Sunday what I thought was going to be be brief visit to my local GP out of hours service ended up with an immediate admission to hospital. Even after I’d been put on a ward I expected [...]

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A day well spent…

Posted in Bullying, Health, Hospital, Memories, Mental Archaeology on Jul 8th, 2010

I had a highly productive day yesterday. I spent three hours in hospital finally having the physical evidence of being used as a sixteen year old human yo-yo removed. It was my first experience of undergoing surgery while still awake, although quite heavily sedated, and it was very strange listening to the surgeon and the [...]

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The hospital torment continues…

Posted in Hospital, Knees, Memories, Mental Archaeology on Jul 3rd, 2010

After another long wait my name was finally called and I was escorted into the august presence of the Consultant. Like so many men of his station he had the sort of demeanour that made a boy automatically call him Sir. It seemed that I was the victim of serious disinformation as far as procedures [...]

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A hospital misadventure…

Posted in Hospital, Knees, Memories, Mental Archaeology, Nudity on Jul 2nd, 2010

After what felt like miles of corridor the nurse stopped outside a door, pushed it open and ordered me inside with the instruction “There’s a gown in there, take everything off, put the gown on then go out the other door”. “What?” I squeaked “Everything?”. “Yes, everything now get a move on!” “But I’m only [...]

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The end of the course and a new adventure…

Posted in Hospital, Memories, Mental Archaeology, Music on Jul 1st, 2010

There’s really nothing more to tell about the choral course. No further untoward incidents took place, the concert went very well and my parents seemed satisfied that the course fees hadn’t been wasted. All in all a success, I surmised. The rest of the Easter holiday just drifted by, beyond my music I had no [...]

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A week that I’ll never see again…

Posted in Health, Hospital on Jun 18th, 2010

It’s been an “interesting” week to say the least and my absence from this little corner of the internet was completely unplanned. On Monday an old medical problem reasserted itself and at 4pm I found myself in the A & E Department of my local hospital. In the past this problem has been quite straightforward, [...]

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