11 July 2009
My wretched power shower packed up a couple of days ago, but good old Derek, our plumber, will have it back in action again in a day or two. The point being that with my disability I really rely on this rather than the bath. Incidentally, I tried a bath a couple of weeks ago, […]
9 July 2009
I was absolutely amazed yesterday when I checked on the statistics for the blog and found that there have been around 25,000 hits since April 16th. There were 10,000 or so requests for pages presumably for people reading the diary or the anecdotes. I did give the blog some exposure when it started, through my […]
The Cricket Match
The first time I personally experienced leather on willow was on October 25, 2003 on the former military parade ground, Fort Malabar, Cochin, India – the first such match to be played on this ground since 1947 – that is Europeans against the local Indian team, the Cochin Cricket Club, dubbed by us for this […]
2 July 2009
Today I had my quarterly MND assessment at Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge. Having explained the deterioration in my hands and arms the doctor was not surprised and said, on the whole ‘I was doing very well’. In other words, I am going downhill pretty much at the rate that they anticipated (although of course, he neither […]
1 July 2009
One of my readers, for whose opinion I have the highest respect, suggested that this blog would be more useful to patients and carers if I were to be more honest about my feelings. I’m perfectly happy to do so but, of course, do not want to fill these pages with doom and gloom. That’s […]