This was written yesterday, I seem to have drifted off into catching up with reading other posts and forgotten to publish. So here you are, yesterday’s post . . .
I have been in communication with the surgery three times today. Once they rang me but I couldn’t talk because I was driving. Then I rang them back when I stopped – they gave me my blood test result for the Warfarin – I am in the correct range and have another two weeks until my next test. Hurrah! he said ironically. In the early afternoon the original caller rang back to give me the same news – they hadn’t told her I’d called back. This confirms my suspicions about communications within the practice. Finally, in the evening, a doctor rang. I’m never keen on doctors ringing a it is seldom good news . . .
For the first time in my life they were ringing to congratulate me. They are, it seems, very happy with the way I am losing weight and, according to my blood tests, becoming healthier. This is unusual, and not entirely welcome. It’s a little like being smiled at when you meet an undertaker, as if they know something I don’t. However, they did remind me there was still more to do, and told me to stop eating bananas. That was my fault, I shouldn’t have admitted to it in the first place. I already knew they were bad for my diet. That’s why I try to say as little as possible when I talk to medical people.
Another unusual occurrence was me forgetting a submission deadline, and even more strange, not being concerned about it. I’m not sure if this is good or not. On one hand, it’s good to have ambition and discipline. On the other, I’m doing it for enjoyment o why should I make it hard work?
Well done, Simon. Fortunately for me, I don’t particularly like bananas.
That helps. 🙂 I’d cut them out for years but we started having them in the breakfast cereal for extra nutrition, only to find out we probably shouldn’t. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to do. 🙂
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Bravo on the good health news. Keep at it!
After my infection and covid I have decided I must get healthier. Thinner is the first step and the rest, I hope, will follow.
How nice to have an encouraging call from a doctor. When they call you, it is usually something ominous. Sorry about the bananas.
Can’t have everything, I suppose. 🙂
Bananas… huh….there’s an Agatha Christie story I hadn’t thought of
Bananas as a plot point – I may never eat one again.
I guess this is all good news. I don’t really like bananas anyway
I gave them up for years and only started again recently to boost my vitamin intake. Can’t do right, no matter how hard I try . . .
Congratulations, and we hope this means you will be writing more poetry for a long, long time.
I’m going to take a more relaxed attitude and just keep plugging away. No point making it a chore.
Surely a banana once in a while would be all right. But perhaps apples are more what you should have? Anyway, great news! Keep eating those vegetables!