So, today was about visiting my father in hospital and also seeing the rest of the family (of my generation) while we were there.
And he seemed rather better than might have been expected from the earlier reports, though still on oxygen and somewhat tired.
However, the scan they did yesterday showed several small blood clots in his lungs and he is ( Read more... )

Started having problems again last night, taken into hospital this morning, fluid on lungs causing heart problems, undergoing assessment by the medical team.
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Text yesterday from brother in law to say that they were just waiting on an ambulance to take 93-year-old father to hospital - chest infection with effects on the heart.
Later info that ambulance had come and they had gone with him, he was being given oxygen, antibiotics, etc, and they would send further info on situation.
Hadn't heard anything ( Read more... )

It will not have escaped the vigilance of my dr rdrz that culinary posts have been thin on the ground of late weeks: Bank Holiday weekend en famille, conference, house-sitting/father-visiting from last Sunday to this.
Still, back whoam today - Had I But Known that the High Speed Train to St Pancras was not running today, necessitating taking the ( Read more... )

So, today my Aged Parent was moved from the hospital to a care centre where he will get 3 weeks of rehab, followed by 3 weeks home care visits. All free on the NHS.
We were anyway coming down to the family place this weekend (Aug Bank Hol) and in spite of minicab taking ages to turn up, train we were aiming at being cancelled, did achieve this aim ( Read more... )

Have been to see a) the Joseph Cornell exhibition at the Royal Academy (not just boxes, also assemblages, collages and films) and b) Small Stories at the Museum of Childhood (includes a certain amount of general materials about domestic life and its changes from C18th-C20th). Both worth seeing, though in the Cornell case the particular theme of the ( Read more... )

Oh the ongoing appalling saga of wifi at O'Hare - due to the extreme mankiness of the website and the very unreliable nature of the connection, I appear to have paid 3 times for the same hour of really random internet connection. Grrrrr.
The flight was pretty much okay as flights go: because the lady in the seat next to me was having some kind of ( Read more... )

These are all very first-world problems, but, on top of my not feeling 100% well with vague and intermittent symptoms that don't constitute me sick enough to get off work and existing commitments, aaaaarghsome.
I was not entirely prepossessed by the dermatology clinic at London Teaching Hospital last week, since, although it was no longer in a ( Read more... )

Time for another Bloomsbury Square: let's have the modest yet charming Queen Square, home of Templez of Teh Healin Artz for a couple of centuries - National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, formerly the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, often known tout court as 'Queen Square' and various related bodies, the Royal London Hospital for ( Read more... )