Responsible

I give thanks for the Tesco delivery driver last night thanking me for not having a heavy order. I do try to be thoughtful in this respect (not drinking beer or wine probably helps!) but it was also thoughtful of him to appreciate it my efforts - don't think that's ever happened before in something like fifteen years! For remembering to sort out my next order as suitable slots are still booked up at least three weeks ahead...

I give thanks for a beautiful morning - even warm enough for me! For managing to get out and enjoy it before the place got too crowded, pootling round the brook and some local shops and buying second breakfast to eat on a bench instead of going home to make some. For picking up a prescription ready at the local pharmacy, enquiring and discovering, as I suspected, the surgery had ignored the fine print on another one meant for a specialist supplier and sent them that one as well...which meant I had to cut short my pleasant basking in the sun and make a few phone calls to try and sort this out, as the prescription gone astray was the last permitted repeat order before the a 'responsible clinician' decided whether it would be OK for me to have more. As we're talking stoma pouches here I'm not quite sure why the system thinks the dosage might need adjusting or the contraindications checked...but there was no one available to check so I give thanks for ordering before the situation became urgent.

And while this was going on I had a message from Bob. who had received a message meant for me from the renal unit so I give thanks for sorting that out too, and checking they didn't have next of kin and patient contact number mixed up in their records as that could cause some probs.  And for still having time to go back out and sample a lemon meringue ice cream from the parlour on the corner before I left for the hospital, though sadly it was a very poor example.

I give thanks for having a bit of a nap during treatment, despite the best efforts of the staff to disturb me, and best of all for not feeling as shivery and ill afterwards as I have the last couple of weeks.