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To be honest I wouldn't really recommend this. The surgery is OK - you wouldn't have it for cosmetic reasons but it works OK and it's an amazingly clever reassignment of bodily parts when think about it. No, what I'm talking about is looking after yourself during recuperation. If you want to prove you're tough row across the atlantic or something, and preferably be sponsored by the mile! Certainly don't do it alone if you have thick curly hair! (I was going to add 'don't do it unless you're in the peak of fitness before the operation'...but if you were you wouldn't need it, would you? Duh!)

I'm good though, grateful for my resilience and resourcefulness. Grateful I feel a bit better than yesterday when I really, really just needed to lie down. I am taking it absolutely as easy as is possible but you still have to eat and drink, and keep yourself, your clothes and immediate surroundings clean and so on. I'm not doing anything that could be left undone I assure you, nothing that wouldn't get worse or harder if it was.

I'm grateful that the Tesco man is coming, that Jenny brought the empty green trays up from the store when she was here and that Laura who is coming later might take the spare ones down. I'm hoping she might help put some clean sheets on my bed too, if it's not asking too much. The old ones had to come off, that's for sure! I'm grateful that I've had a shower and washed my hair...and I think the Tesco man and Laura might well be grateful too, ha ha! I give thanks my afro comb has come back to me after wandering off into another dimension for a couple weeks. That helps a LOT!

I give thanks for the full moonlight glowing through mackerel clouds last night. Awesome sight!