Friday night I went to my first gig since March 2020 ( that was at Bury Met with Don & Margaret) https://everton.blogspot.com/2020/03/just-before-boris-closes-all-our.html
Tonight I went to see Manchester band Blue Orchids at The Trades Club in Hebden Bridge.. They have been going since 1979 . They started life supporting Nico during her "Manchester Period" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Orchids
Great Music !
Ken is mates with 2 of the support band Bingo Harry ( pictured)
This is Phil the Ex-Fireman in front of an advertising hoarding in Halifax town centre.
He looks a bit like Ernest Hemmingway.Non?
Phil is my oldest friend. We first met at secondary school in 1963. We went to stay with his family on the Shankhill Road in East Belfast in 1968 and, later, hitched around Ireland ,the same year, meeting Beach Boy Mike Love and spending a morning with him ! True! not bull shitting!
Plus a million other things later (n.b. I am a Grand Parent to his children)
A Sound Gezzer! I Love the bloke.We are Solid.
Anyway.We went in Halifax for our first evening drink in 18 months tonight . Ken & Phil wanted to go in the afternoon , but I'd booked a Sauna/Gym & swim today so it had to be late.
Very dead in Town .Lots of tumbleweed !. Ken bumped into a friend called Julie .... she's the landlady of "The Blind Pig" in Sowerby Bridge . It was her birthday on Thursday ... .[Pictured below on the right.....]
The audio is Eric Clapton .
On Thursday I meet Martin & Ken for a look around Manchester,
3 Saunas: extra Swims & Gyms this past week. So pretty chilled!
We went in the Antique Place near Hebden Bridge Surgery
It's the first time I've been in there since the start of Covid.
Lots of new 'Old Stuff'. For example this 18th century Ball & Chain . A snip at £350 .Although why ,& who for , you would buy one..I'm not sure.......
After my "Thyroid" & "Cancer" Adventures at the hospital last week..... ( turned out I'm just fat ! ) today I went to see my Blood Pressure Nurse .
Previously she had thought I *might* need 'to go on tablets' for it. Thankfully my readings today are much better, so I have been spared that. I asked her to translate all my Blood Results, which mostly are very good . No problems regarding diabetis , liver , etc The only dodgy scores were for vitamin deficiencies ( B & D )
.Someone is ringing me tommorrow to sort out a prescription for meds for this. Probably tablets..although she did warn I might need injections ( 6 over two weeks!) But hopefully not that........
Anyway , all in all, good news on the health front . My nurse was especially impressed by my kidneys . She said I had "the kidneys of a 12 year old". Which is good news for me, although maybe not so good for that 12 year old...........?
This Friday night was almost like the olden days!
I went swimming in Todmorden and, because the sauna there is still closed, I then drove an extra 7 miles to Burnley Baths for a sweat ( that's the 3rd sauna/Turkish bath in as many weeks)
. Good to see they still have that ' Ghost Hotel' opposite it ...
Manchester UK Free Trade Hall; May 7,1965
I am Still Missing Out On Those Live Gigs
( Cath at the Hebden Bridge Trades Club watching British Sea Power)
Just a quick update on my health .
Yesterday morning I went to see the consultant at The Ear Nose & Throat Clinic at Calderdale Royal Hospital , Halifax.
( He was a really nice bloke)
I was half expecting to hear him mutter words like "Thyroid" & "Cancer" .But instead he gave me a clean bill of health, other than saying if I lost a couple of stone , my wobbly -neck should vanish .
Which is a great relief, obviously . 'Seems I am still immortal , for another few days at least....!
Although it might beg a few questions as to why I was there in the first place?
At the end of the examination with the consultant , for want of something else to say , I asked him to translate the blood tests the GP had taken over two weeks ago.
It turns out they showed my thyroids were ok . Had I known this ,I would not have spent all this time worrying and 'imagining the worst' . .
I should really have been having having these conversations with my GP ( who I have neither seen or spoken to, throughout this whole process........)
I had my blood pressure checked again today (possibility of me going on tablets for this !) Another check in a couple of weeks..hey-hoy!)
https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Week-begining-30th-May-2021/
An hour after my last post : my "Fast Tracked 14 days" appointment cancelled...... In theory I have a legal right to being seen within 14 days. The deadline for that would be next Friday ( the 4th June )
Plus my blood results now online. 4 out of 5 ok .but the other one not so (see details)
Maybe my invisible GP will translate eventually.......? Weekend & Bank Holiday means nobody to talk to about it until Tuesday ...providing I can get past the receptionist!
Maybe I will post on facebook and ask "Is There A Doctor In The House" ?
Anyway...... I bought some Vit D tablets this evening .
I'm thinking "Thyroids" ?
I had my bloods tested on Thursday.
I go to hospital next Wednesday :"fast track" urgent referred..."to rule out the possibility of ......" the letter said I still havn't seen ,or even spoken to my GP .All I've had has been a 5 minute face-to face with a Practice Nurse ..and the hospital appointment was made before bloods were even taken. I honestly do not know what to think ....or how to think it !
A rather existentially nervous weekend for me!
Maybe ( probably!) I will feel differently about it next week. But at present I feel abandoned by my GP's . No doubt they are doing a grand job of box-ticking (quick referal etc) but it feels like they are just washing their hands of me....... it would have been nice to have had a human voice to explain events.....
Adding insult, it feels automated & impersonal. For example I have had two automatic text messages sent me this week that have been contradictory & inaccurate. So i spend my time talking to receptionists about their mistakes rather than my feelings .
But ,on the issue itself, there is silence. ! " Holistic Medicine" is so " 20th Century" it seems......
