Thanks for your good wishes guys. I am now back home but unlikely to be active for a month or so. I live in danger of these attacks as I have no lymph system to speak of left in my right leg. This time I got blood poisoning too, so ended up having a heart check up and oxygen. That has turned in positive once the major infection was killed off. Good heart still. Many folk less fit would have been deaded! Must loose weight!!
Interesting that the staff of the hospital were very much more proactive as I wanted to get better, than they were with various malingerers and folk working the system to increase their dependency, thus income, from the State. Likewise with an old boy next to me who used to run the garage next to the Threewheeler test station at Lynham. He remembered us turning up mob handed. He had poor circulation and was after stents, so had to have ulcers to get into the system to be cured, rather than treated - nuts. The other two guys were also motor trade, but in talking were clear never achievers, so Godfrey Goodwin, brilliant name, and I tended to lead the chat. Godfrey was a bit sad to see me go I think, but he is getting his stents and hopefully they will work. Nice guy.
So the staff were mainly very good but the system lets them down as it is underfunded and probably not managed in a coordinated way. The nurses get really frustrated when doctors take a week to appear as they cannot do their job properly and they get the back lash from malcontented patients on top!
So no National for me, missed the Schmitt Rally. No other events. Might be fit enough to do the Bubblecar Museum Halloween bash. But at least I am still here.