The Drive home…

Well unfortunately that was the reaction of my good friend Jim from work, he did later apologise for the remark. He didn’t offend, and realized the mistake either by my face, or by the realization. It was quite amusing in some ways, and disappointing in others. Guess I really should explain that comment, but I…

Got the blood test results today. Liver is back to normal, the kidney function test indicates a slight lowering, but something that the doctor and the nurse are not concerned about (figures are 84 down to 70 something if anyone knows what they are?). The week has been rather good, The doctor had prescribed a…

Well Ally gave me an early birthday present today, after telling her about the ball, she asked if I wanted to go, and when I had said there wasn’t enough time, she dismissed that as an excuse and said I should go.  It came as a shock because it was not expected at all, but…

Today was the day I made the dreaded call, to tell Mum.  Earlier my sister phoned to say mum was there, and would I talk to her (we had arranged this a few days ago), so I talked to mum about general things for a few minutes, then dropped the bombshell. Both my sister and…

Tonight was an interesting night, completely unplanned, and the result was a phone call and confession to Michael my brother. In some ways it was quite funny, I said, “do you want to know the hard way or the easy way?” He said, “the hard way”, so I gave him the the location of my…

Today is not a good day. The results from my blood test were back and I got an appointment to see the doctor as some of the results were abnormal. The normal range of values for AST (SGOT) is from 5 to 40 units per liter of serum (the liquid part of the blood). The…