Almost projecting over the catscan...

Playlist

Tangerine Dream - The Virgin Years: 1974-1978

Klaus Schulze - Mirage

Klaus Schulze - ...Live...

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

The Animals - The Most Of The Animals

Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love

Focus - Moving Waves

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

Alice Cooper - Killer

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (Live)

Faust - The Faust Tapes

Velvett Fogg - Velvett Fogg

The Who - A Quick One

Hawkwind - In Search Of Space

Alice Cooper - School Days

Various - Fill Your Head With Rock

Hawkwind - Hawkwind

Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards (Expanded Deluxe Edition)

Black Widow - Black Widow III

String Driven Thing - String Driven Thing

Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido

Haystacks Balboa - Haystacks Balboa

Steven Wilson - Transience

Scars - Author! Author!

Miles Davis - Directions

An eventful October away...

The view from the office this morning, these are pills not teeth...

I was now off the morphine and my antibiotics were coming to an end - hallucinations had ceased and I finally decided to shave for the first time since the day we set off for Bordeaux, just two weeks ago...

There might have been a very different outcome if my gangrenous gallbladder had shown its hand just a week earlier than it did...

Mr Paterson-Brown noted the reduced but still ongoing hicups and the results of the X Ray had in fact shown a slight raising of the right of my diaphragm - so he ordered blood tests and a fresh CT scan...

The former went fine but it wasn't noted I no longer had any canulas present for intravenous access to my bloodstream...

Eight attempts later by Dr Alex, Dr Karen and the on duty nurse and I had one again...

Apparently I have the skin of a rhino and deep veins...

Finally down to CT for the scan and all was going well until the dye was injected...

I was being moved in and out of the machine and pics were being taken when suddenly I felt everything in my stomach, coming up my throat at top speed...

Projectile vomit ensued - luckily I was able to warn the staff in time, so that a massive clean up was not required...

Horrible nonetheless...

Back to the ward to a waiting Anne...

Just after she left for a night at Keith and Maureen's, Mr P-B arrived to advise the scan was all clear and I could be discharged tonight or tomorrow, with tomorrow probably being the safer option...

So I chose that...

The hiccups had now receded...

As a bonus, Anne had brought in some more chocolate raisins and these were enjoyed on Halloween - we should have been allowed out to scare the kids with our scars....

Highlight of the Day : Nearly home...