Ups and downs

Lots of bad things happening at the moment...

My grandmother, Hilda, died suddenly on February 14th aged 90. We all miss her.

Lou's dad has to go for an operation this Thursday.

I feel downstairs this morning and badly hurt my hip (clumsy fool, but most unlike me as I'm normally very sure-footed).

But one good thing: I heard from the hospital this morning and my CT scan is clear with nothing to worry about. Yay! Still doesn't explain the problem with my paralysed vocal cord though. More appointments coming soon then.

Incidentally, what is a CT scan like? You're dressed in a hospital gown and conscious throughout and a colourless dye is injected into one arm by a large machine which is suspended from the ceiling. The machine itself is like a big square wall with a circular hole in the middle and a long bed protruding from the opening. Once you are lying down and have had the dye injected the hospital staff leave the room and talk to you through a small speaker in the machine. You move in and out of the machine a couple of times and the whole procedure takes around fifteen minutes from entering the room until you leave at the end. It doesn't hurt and isn't claustrophobic. But the waiting to hear afterwards is a killer.