After what might fairly be described as a weekend of agony, the NHS did its best for me yesterday.
This morning plans will be confirmed, but it may be I will have had the necessary treatment before the day is over.
However, that does not mean I will be back in action on Wednesday. I will be heeding advice to take things slowly for a little while after this, even if today is the immediate end of treatment, as I hope.
And very many thanks for all your messages. Tom, Jacqueline and I appreciate them.
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I hope you are recovering well. Nothing like a bit of pain to remind us about our bodies. Having suffered gall stones and kidney stones you have my sympathy. Get well soon and take it easy remember we are human beings not human doings.
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It’s always good to hear when the NHS works. When it does it remains one of the best and most integrated systems in the world. Let’s hope Andy Burnham a former health secretary will treat it better.
Get well soon and do rest as told.
The only health secretary who privatised a hospital, Hinchingbrooke.
I haven’t commented here for a while but just wanted to drop in and wish you and Tom all the very best for a full recovery.
Your work is important and necessary and so is your health.
Thinking of you. Wishing you a speedy recovery. Look after yourself.
Please, please, please do take care of yourselves (all of the family) and have proper rest and recuperation. We are all happy to wait with you.
Meanwhile, I am still chuckling at the irony of it. You ‘choose’ the most eventful day in a long while to take the morphine express (hahaha), and be out of the thick of it, leaving the rest of us to groan and rant at the day long ‘news’ cycle covering the premiership of this doomed country.
For me, Burnham’s election and possible coronation as PM is just profoundly depressing. Same old, same old. Let’s hope that the Greens can win the Manchester mayorship and show that a different politics is possible.
Best wishes.
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From deep in the hospital
I know you are dedicated to your cause Richard, but as my late wife used to say, “If you don’t have your health, you have nothing”. Please take matters as easy as is possible.
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And today I am knackered, and being wheelchaired
Get, well soon and take all the time you need to recover. Les
Wishing you a speedy recovery. Best wishes
Richard,
Hope your recovery goes well.
Take all the time you need.
I still believe the NHS is the greatest ever, single act of civilisation.
We will all know it only took keenly when it has gone.
Get well soon.
My compassion is with you, your hurting bits, and your wheelchair. I hope you can enjoy a deep rest.
Good to hear you’re taking the advice and resting. I hope you make a speedy recovery.
At last! A chance for me to catch up.
In the meantime, perhaps you can persuade a member of the family to write the book on country-by-country reporting. It seems impossible, like persuading Jacob Rees-Mogg to open a chain of food banks.
I think there are bigger issues for now.
Rest, it is said, is the best of medicines. Ensure you take plenty. Wishing you a full recovery.
Take it easy, the body may be weak but I’m sure the brain will be ticking over.
We await a barnstorming return…..
Hope you are well.
Take it easy Richard and look after yourself.
All the best in your recovery Richard!