Ingredients and consultant

This morning I spent indoors apart from going over to the Leafy Green Dragon to pay for and collect the cake ingredients. One of the staff carried them to the house as my knee was particularly iffy today. Still have some stuff to get but won’t start baking them until the end of next week when Darren and Tina are away.

The yucca in the front garden is flowering, they are impressive and I like to see them.

Late morning Tina and I had a walk down Newbegin as she had spotted a dress she liked. They didn’t have that one in her size but she did find another one she liked. We had a coffee in The Lounge before coming home and then set off for a restaurant near the hospital. An enjoyable lunch and then off to the hospital. The consultant was very charming, asked me some questions and examined my knee. Said the options were to ‘live with it’ or have surgery. He then started to list the cons, it was seemingly endless and I did say ‘you are really selling this’, he said he needed to point out three risks. It was interesting that he said that the pain I now have from the left knee replacement is common and there is nothing they can do about it. He also said that four out of five are happy with the outcome, meaning 20% of people aren’t. Anyway, I said I would like to go ahead and then he dropped the bombshell. My bmi had to be 30 or below to be added to the list. I told him my height and weight and he said it was okay but a nurse would check. She made me an inch shorter and my weight was sure to be up so I convinced myself that I wouldn’t be added to the list. But in the end I made it by the skin of my teeth, phew! The waiting list is six to twelve months.

We went to Lidl on the way home and I went into to church for a while to keep Tina company while she did some printing.

Will finish with two pics of a baby robin.