Sat 27^th Jan 2018

Just a very quick catch up to continue on the balancing the good and bad of 2017.

As I wrote last week the neck brace went on and I struggled with it not sleeping for the duration of it being on my neck. Maybe that is a bit exaggerated because I obviously sleep but not well. But I’ll by-pass that as now it is a distant memory and it doesn’t do well to dwell on things.

So the good bit is, the very first day I could have the brace off for 6 hrs during the day, my friends took me for a lovely walk in the Lakes and as if by magic the weather was fairly good. By my standards of appreciating things, that walk cancelled out all the previous months of discomfort. It is now fairly even again.

Then the balance slipped again into the dark side. The biopsy taken from the bridge of my nose came back with bad news attached. I had a ‘morphing’ (my interpretation of the technical name) Basal cell that had to be removed. When Mr Hampton explained what it was, I whole heartedly agreed with him that it has to come off. Very soon the scales tipped into favour as I had the op very quickly after the diagnosis. (Obviously someone had given back word as it was heading up towards Christmas,) I gratefully jumped in and was whisked off into the operating room. Mr Hampton and his colleagues were wonderful and it was all good again.

But not for long!!!!

The biopsy came back that not a big enough patch was taken and there was signs of this “THING” still at the edge, I would have to have another bit taken out. Mercifully not another graft, just a slither of skin. (Now, nearly at the end of Jan 2018, best forgotten!)

At the time I was a little miffed at being so unlucky, but hey-ho, we must get on. My philosophy is to get buried into a project. Which sometimes work, and sometimes it does not.

My good idea was that I burry myself into a commitment and then I won’t have time to mope about and feel sorry for myself. Hence the stupid idea of promising and advertising on Facebook that I will do a Solo Person’s Art Exhibition on my 75^th birthday on 15^th of March 2018.

We are getting to the good bit of 2017 as an invitation came from RLI that Mr Hampton will do the op on 29^th of Dec. Hurrah!!! I thought that means I will only have the stitches to contend with in the New Year and it will all be good.

Back in the realms of the balancing it all out. Op went well. (Nearly forgotten. Nearly!) So the year ended with the balance in the good. It just meant that I stayed in the house again for the duration of these delightful blue stitches sticking out on top of my nose. On the whole fairly good outcome. Especially now I have found out that the biopsy came back all clear.

I am now all done with 2017 and it can go into the furthest recesses of the memory data. I just have to concentrate on the pending disaster of my Art Exhibition, which is looming up very quickly.

I am hoping to put a few pictures up on here and on Facebook of some of my art.

So, chop-chop! Pacey - pace. Get moving!
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