Health day

Another funny old day! Torrential rain and gale force winds have meant that poor Hughie has spent another stressful night hanging onto the upper branches of the Churchyard Elm for grim death. I do so wish that he would follow Rogo into the safety of the ark but alas he has again decided to brave the terrible elements.
I have just nipped out to check on him in the awful weather and there he was hanging on like Steve Mc Queen in the climax of the Towering Inferno!..Bless..

Today I have been reviewed by a rather poe faced GP, who organised a few blood tests before sending me up to the Eye hospital for a full eye scan and workout! ( to double check if my blurred vision was not just a product of high blood pressure)
Now I have never experienced ocular pressure studies before, and I must say the whole experience was rather stomach churning to say the least. Having probes actually touching my eye, despite anaesthetic eye drops is perhaps the worst thing I have ever experienced ( with the exception of accidentally splashing pig poo into my mouth!!!-don't ask!) and I bounced around the examination chair like one of my guinea fowl chicks at the feeling of it all......
A wonderfully jolly nurse put some atropine drops into my eyes to dilate them before the scan, which gave me a bit of a look of Mr Magoo, and I had all the tests which turned out to be ok......Thank God for my friends and neighbours, that's all I can say as Geoff did all the driving as my eyeballs had effective stopped working and Carol took the dogs for their afternoon exercise.

As for my blood pressure.....I now have a week to monitor it three times a day......lets hope that Boris doesn't attack me again or that the guinea fowl chicks continue to bombard me in the shed!.....that would make any one's blood pressure soar through the roof.

Tonight I have taken a rain check from the cinema with Hazel, and am sat in front of a nice warming fire with the dogs. Chris is in London at a posh reception at Kensington Palace (no less) so it's an early night.......blood pressure just re checked (I have to check it myself 4 times daily for 1 week)...and it's down a little this evening
Hey ho