On The Island

King George VI park for our walk.

We were up early as my appointment at Kent and Canterbury Hospital was 9am but I had to be there half an hour before. Mal came with me and we booked an Uber as I was told I couldn’t drive straight afterwards.

I didn’t have long to wait and I have to say the staff were really lovely. But they had to put a cannula in to put more Omnipaque in my body. Three attempts in one arm to get the needle in and then she gave in and put it in my hand!  A very weird sensation their preparation and then the scans.

She then took me to the toilet, to get dressed. As soon as I came out she had a sandwich, packets of biscuits and a cup of tea ready for me. What service. Mal shared some of this as he hadn’t had breakfast! When they said I could leave, we called another Uber to take us home.

It was such a lovely day Mal suggested as I had been starving, we should go for a late lunch at The Bell. It was just so nice sitting in their garden, sun out, Ellie very relaxed. A nice way to spend the afternoon.

In the evening we caught up with “Ben Fogle in China”. It certainly makes you think!

Not a work day as I had to take laxatives before my colonoscopy scan the following day.

So, up early to walk Ellie before my first 8am dose. And that is how the day continued, which meant I couldn’t leave the house.

The last dose was Omnipaque , that was not very tasty! Of course no food for 36 hours., which started Sunday evening.

Ellie’s 14th birthday!!

We thought she would enjoy Minnis Bay, we hadn’t even considered how cold it would be down there and while we were walking along the beach, it poured with rain. We all got soaked.

But Ellie enjoyed it! I think it wore her out.

Lunchtime we gave her the birthday biscuits…not all at once! And a present.

Then it was time to watch Spurs….they lost again! The consolation was my “second” team Luton Town won the Vertu Trophy at Wembley!!

Our walk was around Wingham Orchards. A lovely time of year as the bluebells are out and the blossom just starting on the apple trees.

We used our new slow cooker to cook one of the Easter joints. They are just so easy, we use them a lot. We had to cook the joint today as I have to starve for 36 hours from tomorrow night, ready for my scan. If you get hungry, you can such barley sugar. When was the last time any of us saw that?!

Nice and sunny and so we went to Kearsney. Ellie seems to enjoy going in the water again now.

A coffee sitting outside the cafe and a quick stop in Lidl to buy a large Argyranthemum plant.

Mal had to water the allotment in the afternoon and brought back the second lot of asparagus,  some broccoli and rhubarb.

What a surprise in the evening, Hammers won their game 4-0!!!!

I had an appointment with Periodontal in Faversham. not the best thing to do on a lovely sunny day.

On my last visit he said he would just check the tooth he told me to have extracted had gone and healed, then go through the pre op he was going to do and book a date.  When I went in he started by telling me that they no longer had the funding to carry out the operations in Faversham and he would have to refer me elsewhere. So, I had no need to have the other tooth extracted, I could have just waited until it worked itself loose!!

So today he spent an  hour measuring all my teeth and where they were in my gums. This took over an hour and in spite of taking pain killers before I went (just in case), it was really painful and my mouth bled a lot. I really wasn’t happy because this is not what he told me would happen today.  He then took two X rays and made a lot of notes.

When he finished all this …an hour and a quarter in the chair, I asked where we go from here. He told me to make two appointments for deep cleans and see if the gums then improved or whether he would refer me then!!! So the first appointment is September. I guess by the time that arrives, they will have stopped doing them as well!

I also warned him that I had a mouth ulcer. He asked me if I often had them. Yes, I do. He then told me I should have a blood test but they don’t have the facilities so I should ask my dentist to refer me to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.  Erm…..isn’t this where I started all those years ago?!!  Handy I am back to my dentist in Canterbury next week I guess!!

After the pain killers wore off, my mouth was so sore.  I have to say the treatment has really gone downhill from when I first started.