'evening all and thanks for your various levels of concern / interest / flippancy

... etc.
'tis a loooooooooong story

absolutely shocked to read of Chris's demise


.. was a nice bloke ...... we
'got on' well

My disappearance kicked off with a routine visit to the Heath on the 31st for my 6 monthly U/S scan.
started off fine at 11 o'clock .... by 11.20 I'm in excruciating agony being rushed through hospital corridors to A&E , after they'd pissed my pancreas off, with full blown, shoot me now, pancreatitis - AGAIN - puking my heart out !!!
was gone midnight 'fore I'd been shifted to a ward, bed and been given summat better than a couple of paracetamol for the pain

Unfortunately (but as usual) I'd gone down to Cardiff on me own ... had had to ring Pam .. tell her the bad news -
like don't wait up - and get her and Vicki to come and get the car out the 4hr stay car park
several days of morphine induced stupor followed, as me pancreas calmed down a bit and I got weened back onto more conventional painkillers. Managed to persuade 'em after a week or so that I had enough of what they were giving me, at home, to 'self manage' the pain and they finally let me go
just about on top of the pancreas, for now, but me spleen has been a major problem, not getting treated for the gaucher's cells, it's been accumulating, since the 31st - me consultant had been down to A&E to see me and said stop taking the new pills

... too many unknown factors in play

.. so been urgently awaiting a new hamster juice delivery to disperse the accumulations ... arrived this morning, lunchtime and it'd barely touched down 'fore it was mixed and plugged into me arm - spleen is feeling better for it !

Have spent the last few days since i've been home trying to get me digestive system re-interested in food, little by little, ease off the tramadol cocktails, catch up on a lot of sleep - they woke you
every hour down there for some bloody test / obs. / whatever -- was in the CT scanner one morning at 05.00 ... even the radiologists said it was bloody early

combine the double whammy above with the fact i've not had a fag in 12 days and my system is doing cold turkey on that front too ...... it's been a bloody rough 12 days
just waiting now for the 80 quid fine/bill from Parking Eye for the car park at the hospital, to top the whole pile of shite off
Gonna take me months to get me back to where i was, pre U/S scan fk up


..... At least I could manage to keep on top of it all