I am aware that at the moment there is a certain repetitive theme to this blog with discourses on waterworks and what at some schools they refer to politely as number two. However taking things back to Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, we did have some fun. Because there is more wee whilst you are asleep, the nurse had given us a night bag of bigger size. The idea was to attach this to the day bag, open the day bag valve and voila. Unfortunately e attached the night bag to the wrong part of the day bag. As a result I woke up at 6 feeling like there was a ton weight on my leg. I realised that the day bag was full to bursting and made it to the bathroom just in time. It was one of those situations well described by our good friend Peter as something you would laugh at further down the line but at the moment it was a bit grim.
Anyway as promised we got a visit from a District Nurse called Geraldine. We knew that was her name because she had a huge badge with her name on it pinned to her uniform. She took the bag out and gave me in effect 5 hours to pee or she would return to put a new bag on. Fortunately even though it's quite sore I am managing thus far. In the other matter I have had an attack of the runs.
Enough of this. I weighed myself this morning and have lost 3 pounds. This isn't something at this stage to worry about but it does need keeping an eye open. I mentioned a call from Alan Lapsley earlier in the week. He told me that he had lost two stone following the operation. If I follow the same pattern I would be down to 13 stone(182 pounds). That would not be serious. However if I lose a lot more weight before the operation that might be a bit more problematic.
Tomorrow is the round the Island yacht race in which some 1800 sailing craft sail anti clockwise round the Isle of Wight. It's quite a sight and who knows I might even be able to see some of it.
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