THURSDAY 3rd/ MARCH 2016.
NEWSFLASH ; UPDATE ON BRENDA !
Well we had another ‘ Adventure’ yesterday
afternoon, the ‘SSG – Social Services’ ambulance arrived on time at 3-30 pm and
after collecting two other patients in the village we shot along the coast road
at high speed in the outside lane and arrived at the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ Hospital
early! I then shot Brenda up to the first floor, large, ‘X-Ray Department and
she was seen one hour ahead of our appointment, we then came back down to the
ground floor to the ‘Trauma’ Department which is next to the main ‘Out Patients’
entrance.
Once again the Consultant saw us one hour
ahead of our time slot, after viewing the X-Ray he decided to have the plaster
cast taken off to have a better look and feel, after checking both feet he said
that they were both a lot better, the broken foot had healed very well and so
only needed a bandage on for the next two weeks, the left foot was also flexible,
Brenda has not to walk for another two weeks and use the crutches when needed, she
is staying downstairs over the weekend and practising using the crutches! Watch
this space.
While all this was happening the ‘SSG’
medic called to see how we were going on, he then arranged for the ‘Staff Nurse’
to call them when we were ready, we ‘parked up’ in the reception and waited,
our ambulance arrived a little late and had to go back to headquarters around
the corner as the patients that it had dropped off had been sick, so it needed
cleaning and sterilising!! We eventually set off with two walking wounded and
one other person on a stretches with Brenda strapped in her wheel chair.
The first drop off was in the top of
Marbella next to the ‘ Plaza De Torres’ – we then turned left off the coast
road into ‘ Nuevo Andalusia’ which we have never seen before, its a small town
with lots of restaurants and two large flood light sports grounds, we came back
onto the coast by San Pedro and the next drop off was in the old part of the
Esteopna, it was then time to head back up to sunny Manilva! We then ‘hit’ a
problem as ‘ Calle Mar’ was closed for the ‘Council Bin Wagon’ collecting the rubbish
from the underground storage bins! It happens every evening for about 15/20
minutes! The ‘ SSG’ medic decided to find his way to our house through the side
streets with me shouting ‘ left or right’ – we ended up in the next street so
he pushed Brenda in the wheel chair up our street to our house – it was by then
9-30 pm!!
We had a light supper of a ‘Cheese Omelette’
as requested for Brenda and ‘Heinz’ Baked Beans on toast for me, Mano had
called in and taken ‘ Charlie’ for a long walk while we were out. Later we had
a ‘Skype’ video call from Jack & Lyn over in Melbourne, that we had
arranged, so we had a good catch up and chat, Brenda has sent text messages to
her two sisters over in the UK while we were coming back from the hospital.
After a good night sleep I welcomed ‘ Reina’ back for the day, I then took ‘Charlie’
out, after breakfast I was on kitchen duties for tonight’s supper “ Braised ‘Minute’
Entrecote Steak in a Red Wine Onion Gravy “ with Cabbage with Alselgas, crushed
Carrots & Turnips and ‘ Malcolm’s’ not ‘ Brenda’s’ famous Mashed Potato –
which passed the ‘ taste test’!! The
rest of the day we are taking things easy after yesterdays ‘ Adventure’ out and
about on the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ – it reached 23 degs in the afternoon over in
Marbella and today we have more of the same weather but with a little breeze so
its only reaching 22 degs today!
Thoughts for the Day; see above.
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