Joint School is an excellent idea - they get patients in before their hip or knee replacements, and explain the whole procedure and aftermath, and everyone fills in a form about their home circumstances and gets to discuss it with a nurse. I had nothing like this when I went in to get my hip done, and would have greatly appreciated it then. ( Read more... )

I'm now in my usual state of moderate hysteria before travel, not helped by a minor panic at work that led to me sitting here until ten last night finishing the report that I'd managed to banjax at about half-four yesterday afternoon. I finished it and ended up dropping it off at work. Then I spent a short period of excitement, looking at webcam ( Read more... )

Woke up on Thursday morning with a low fever, a nasty cough, and no functioning modem. Bugger. I spent the whole day alternately screaming down the phone at BT's useless helpline and coughing feebly on the sofa. Software problems, I think, either in computer or my brain ( Read more... )