Back from sea in one piece... with a Distinction in my OU A215 Creative Writing Course. Hurray!!!!!!!
Thursday 2 December Feeling confined in her snow-muffled flat, Ma takes a walk up her front path to take the morning air. As she returns a cat jumps over the wall and startles her. She slips on the icy path and lands heavily on her shoulder. When her injury doesn’t spontaneously heal, she eventually gives in and calls her local GP surgery. In the evening a GP visits and summons an ambulance ‘sooner rather than later’. Around 10.30 pm Ma is admitted to her local hospital. X-rays suggest she has a fractured scapula which will require emergency surgery. She is put on a nil by mouth regime that night and transferred to a larger hospital for an emergency operation. However, she’s picked a busy period for her accident so the operation doesn’t take place. Saturday 4 December The operation is rescheduled for this morning, so Ma’s had a second night of nil by mouth. A CT scan shows that Ma’s humerus is broken in four places. Despite her obviously smashed-up arm, which is in a sling and...
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Also, congrats on a safe return from the sea. xo
I hope the sailing was good - the weather certainly was.
Next - congratulations on your distinction. I know how much that means to you. Glad you got back in one piece. Indeed glad you got back alive - you could have been washed up on the shore six weeks later. That would still have counted I suppose as getting back in one piece.
But great you are as ever on top form.
There, I spect that's the most whimsical comment you've had today!
and you got a distinction! lol. Seriously, I am happy you survived the perils of the ocean, but delighted on your Distinction for the OU writing course.
And what is all this about a biting dog? I shall have to check it out.
Hope your bum's not sore anymore.
Glad you made it back to terra firma safely, and to such good news!
(ps - hope your rump is okay now. That was a dreadful thing to happen:-(
Did you have good weather?
Yammas!
I think trumpet tootling very appropriate and most deserved.
I have been thinking about doing this but not sure I could match that!
CKx
Good to see you back, in one UNSCATHED piece, from the sea!
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CKx
Kate - no need to match anything, just be yourself AND DON'T YOU DARE CHANGE YOUR MIND!!
SBS, you are very kind, my friend.
Jeanne thanks, and it's very good to be back unscathed!
Gaelikaa - my nerve seems to have gone a bit, and I have a scar that most people will never see!
I only managed a second grade pass :(
xx