Today I remembered to check my calendar for appointments before going to breakfast and noted the Cryo appointment at 09:30. Back to my room after breakfast and at last a bowel movement!
Feeling in good form following the cryogenic treatment I was looking forward to my massage and it was superb, in what felt like quite a long session he worked on my shoulders and back and I left room 340 feeling very relaxed. Shoulders do seem to suffer from the stresses of crutch usage and we discussed whether the crutches were the right length. Unfortunately they do not adjust sufficiently to be ‘on the spot’ so they stayed the same; I just make sure I remain more vertical.
This whole recuperation business is pretty tiring and it didn’t take long for me to drop back off to sleep once back in room 219. Back at the restaurant, with my cohort of English speakers, today’s fish offering was carp and it was very tasty with various bits of salad and couscous. Mark and Kelli wre planning to go for a walk outside in the sunshine after lunch.
John asked me to call on him at his room on the way to the 14:20 group physiotherapy appointment to accompany him to see Greta. So before leaving my room I set up my computer to view my old school friend, Martin Binks’ funeral, which was being streamed over the internet so that I could watch it when I got back from physiotherapy.
John and I rambled down to room 112 and had a good session with Greta after which we parted company as he had a cryogenic appointment but mine had been in the morning. I returned to my room to watch the funeral which was beautifully done and I made a donation to Martin's appeal for a memorial fund at Nottingham University.
The beautiful weather here this morning has given way to a still but grey late afternoon and I am hoping that it will improve again tomorrow allowing me to follow Mark and Kelli’s example of a walk round the block. Having just checked this seems unlikely as the forecast is for snow and cloudy weather until Thursday.
For dinner this evening, back to the restaurant. Having checked blood sugars, pleasantly down to 6.5, I injected 10 units recognising that I was going to eat and then go to the send off evening for the guys from Scotland. Dinner, again a different fish, cod, was available so I backed that up with rice and vegetables and then a second plate with salad. By 19:00 John and Roy had decided to go down to the ground floor restaurant and bar but Mark, Kelli and I stayed for a cup of tea, green in my case, and by the time we were ready to go down the others were still sitting in the main reception area as the restaurant was still quite busy. The three of us went back to our respective rooms and messed about for half an hour before going down to party!
Kelli and I indulged in a glass of red wine whilst the others were mainly on the beers and we had a good time chatting about the differences between UK and Canadian health care systems and their fees etc.. After a considerable wait the transport arrived to take the Scots back to Vilnius for their flight to Edinburgh and we gave them a round of applause and a bit of a singsong as they left.
Now back in my room to write up my blog and talk to Catharine before a bit of a netflix session, Safe, prior to sleep. Not sure how long that will last as I am very tired.
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