Since my last post, I've played a fair amount of golf - virtually the last blast of the season in Scotland. I played for our Seniors against the Ladies on Wednesday, then a Texas Scramble at Insch on Thursday and another at beautiful Duff House Royal in Banff on Saturday. Then on Sunday, we held our annual season closing Scotland v. The Rest of the World Challenge match. Lovely weather again and a nice day out, followed by a long lunch in the clubhouse - check the golf blog (http://bsvgolf.blogspot.co.uk/) for photos etc.
The last game on Sunday was in a buggy. I'd done too much - Wednesday, Thursday and then Saturday, when I was in severe pain at the end of my round. There was no way I could have walked round the course on Sunday after that.
Just a month to go now until my knee op, which was finally confirmed in writing last week:
I've also since had a phone call to advise that my pre-assessment will be on Monday 28th October. They need it to be within a week of the operation and, of course, I'm in Tenerife from the 20th to 27th, so this was both the earliest and the latest that they could do the pre-assessment. I can't imagine the blood tests that morning are going to be a pretty sight, however, after a week's holiday.
Lucy has insisted that drainage massage is the key to optimum recovery so I've to ask my physiotherapist about this - if she doesn't do it, then Lucy is going to train Jo to do it!:
Anyway, back to this week. I've been to Fraserburgh on each of the past 2 days and I drove our architect back to his home in Dyce last night. He had a knee replacement at Albyn10 days ago, so I was pumping him for information. He's delighted how free of pain he is already, and he was telling me he has stopped taking the pain medication already, although he has been prescribed it until the end of this month. I told him I thought he had to keep taking it as it aided the recovery process - I think Lucy told me this as well?
I'll glean more about knee ops from Dawn when we see her next weekend as well. We missed cousin Lesley's 50th birthday celebrations when we were in Belfast, but I noticed that both Barry and Dawn made it along. Lesley was then treated to a trip to London last weekend and, seeing the family photos on Facebook, I was trying to work out who was all in them - and it turned out that my cousin Douglas (Lesley's elder brother) who has been out of the picture for years, was also there - with his wife too. Good to see it - it's an old cliche, but life is too short to hold grudges.
After the drop-off in Dyce last night, I finally made it back to Banchory at 6 pm and was driving along the High St. when who should I see coming out of Tease, but our Ross. I knew Jo was in Inverurie anyway so I turned round and suggested we went for a beer - which we did, followed by watching the Celtic match at our house and sharing the Shepherd's Pie Jo had left - plus some of our smoked mackerel.
