As I've already said, things move along quite rapidly, although a week feels like a lifetime when you're waiting.
And now, less than a week since I met God, I'm having my pre operative assessment - my op date having been brought forward a week to 24 August (thank you God's secretary).
The letter said I would have a range of tests; Bloods / ECG / Temperature / Blood Pressure / Pulse (there is one I can assure you) Chest x-ray / Urine - but in actual fact I had none of these, just a swab up the nose for MRSA screening.
Please bring with you a list of all the medications you are taking - that one was easy NONE
Please bring with you a list of all the medications you are taking - that one was easy NONE
Then followed a tortuously long meeting with a nurse which covered a whole series of topics designed to find any contra-indications - there were none.
Age 58, fit, healthy (well apart from the cancer), never been in hospital, never had a general anaesthetic, not on any medication and yes, I can walk a flight of stairs without getting puffed out.
But my oh my, how she loved to chat - I heard about her family, her cats and, rather inappropriately I thought, her estranged sister's terminal cancer!
