I am sorry to report normal service will not be in operation today, and maybe rather longer.
It is 05.20, I am in Addenbrookes Hospital, awaiting a CT scan for an abdominal issue that in pain terms is at present at least equal to the pain of a large gall stare before its removal 12 years ago. I admit this is a morphine enabled post - having just had my second shot of the night. I will then be seeing surgeons.
Bizarrely, Thomas is also in this hospital this morning. He broke three metatarsals last week and is seeing a consultant who will if he needs an operation this morning.
There is a video out this morning in YouTube. I suspect I will be otherwise engaged for a while and so I will get around to posting it here when I can.
The rest of the week is up in the air. I will let you know more when I can.
An update: pretty impressively, all tests and scans done in 6 or so hours from arrival. But I am being admitted for two or three days for non-surgical treatment, which I am told is not fun, but should work.
Blog posts might happen as and when and videos might not for a few days, unless - if Thomas avoids surgery - we make clipped videos from earlier material. We will just have to do the best we can.
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Thank you.
Best wishes to you and Thomas,
Take care,
Please do take care of yourself.
That is the priority at this moment.
Take it easy Richard. Hope it’s all sorted as quickly and painlessly as possible. Best of luck to Thomas too.
Richard, hopefully all goes well for you and Thomas and that you will both be on the mend quickly.
Both of you take it easy.
Hope everything works out well for you, and for Thomas. Priorities. Channel your inner strength towards recovery. Best wishes.
Very best wishes.
Best wishes to you both.
Get well soon.
Good luck. The NHS has a proud record of treating mortality conditions amenable to healthcare, so maybe you don’t need luck, but good luck anyway.
Get well soon both of you
Oh and the structure of Benzene was finally elucidated after the discoverer had been smoking opium so perhaps you might make some interesting discoveries or realisations
Get well soon.
I join with everyone else in sending best wishes to you both.
Take care, and get well soon.
Thanks for the info and, as the others said, you both take it easy and best wishes!
And if in future your body feels better with more bird-watching than writing in this blog, that’s absolutely fine as well.
With all that ammunition you provided us already so far with we’ll be able to hold the fort also quite good.
This alone will keep my donations up and I hope plenty others see it the same way. 🙂
Thank you
Wishing you both a swift recovery. Morphine can indeed take your mind to places it may not have ventured before.
Best wishes to you and your family.
Get well soon
Very best wishes to you and Thomas. Health is always the most important thing.
Best wishes to you both.
I do hope you both get well soon. Best wishes.
Get well soon Richard and Thomas.
Best wishes and a speedy recovery to both of you.
Very best wishes to you both, Richard. Take care!
Best wishes for a speedy recovery to you and to Thomas, Professor. We’ll be here when you get back, however long you need.
Yes, I hope it goes well. Thank you for keeping going, and the strength of your sense of how things could be.
Get well soon.
I understand Addenbrooke’s has been facing very severe funding problems. Maybe when the pain eases and the morphine mist clears, you can lead us in a bit of campaigning for a better deal for them.
This has already been discussed!
So sorry to hear this. Get well soon both of you. Best wishes.
Wishing each of you a full and speedy recovery.
So sorry to hear this. I do hope all will be quickly resolved for you both – best wishes for a good recovery!
Sorry to hear this Richard<p>
Wishing you a speedy recovery and return to normal operation .
Go well Richard and Thomas
Best wishes to both of you, get well soon.
Very best wishes Richard.
Sorry to hear your news Richard. Best wishes to you both and make a swift recovery.
Best wishes to you and Thomas.
Good luck Richard. I hope it goes smoothly.
Best wishes to both of you for a speedy recovery.
Craig
Very best wishes for a speedy recovery
I have just logged so I was devastated to read what you had written.
I wish you a speedy recovery so that you can continue your very valued campaigning. But don’t rush. And best wishes to Thomas too. Recovery from a metatarsal fracture is not quick.
Thanks
And agreed
Very sorry to hear this and join the many well wishers in the FtF community, in wishing you both a speedy recovery.
Best wishes and get well soon
Get well soon to the both of you. (There’s nothing much happening today that you are missing…)
🙂
My thoughts and prayers are with you and Thomas as you proceed through this misadventure.
My husband has a history of Kidney Stones so I am very familiar with the pain you are now enduring.
However, the real prayers will start in a few days when both you and Thomas are discharged from hospital and General Jacqueline will be taking charge. Due to experience with my husband, I know that post-discharge care-giving is just as difficult as the pain & discomfort experienced by the patient.
She is flitting between us this morning.
And she, like me, did not sleep last night.
Thank you, too.
Please take your time to get well, Messrs Murphy.
You have strong family support around you, that’s key. Hope the pain subsides quickly after treatment.
I wondered when you’d join our Maintenance Club. My son gave me a present, of a coronary artery scan, for my 70th birthday. It led to pretty useful maintenance work for me.
Best wishes to you, Thomas and all your family, trusting you will soon be recovered and resuming normal service. In the meantime, other things can (and must) wait.
Best wishes to you and your family.
Wishing a speedy recovery.
Best wishes and speedy recovery to you both. I hope you can see some nature from a window.
Wishing you the very best, Richard.
Hope your stay is short and your recovery is quick.
Sorry to hear this.
Hope you are both well soon.
Xx
Wishing you both all the best for speedy recovery.
Some people need TELLING quite firmly to take it easy for a few days. You can have permission not to blog for a bit.
I know you are, by your own admission, addicted to it. But you can survive for a few days without it.
We’ll all be here when you are well again.
best wishes to the family.( I hope your wife finds you a good patient!)
Thanks
She is relieved this is not major.
We will know more about what is planned in the morning.