Been to Brum/No Bag Required

We stayed the week end with Shell's folks in Birmingham and Bridie provided superb fibre free fry ups and a roast with trifle which will be a mouth watering memory in a few days when I am on Neutricia Pre- op drink. I had a bundle of info (including a Dvd) from the colorectal nurses in the post with helpful pointers about before and after. The operation is called a High Anterior Resection and means I shouldn't need a stoma bag. Amazingly Mr Kapur will remove most of my sigmoid colon and sew the rest back together. I hope the colon is as elastic as they so or I will be permanently curled up into a ball. I should be out of hospital in 4 -7 Days and it'll take a couple of months to feel fit again, maybe 3 weeks to be able to drive.

We saw Maria and Ellie and Shaun and Sue as well as Bridie and Sean in Acocks Green and talked to undergraduate Tom on the phone. Ellie kindly gave me a Jonas Brothers/Miley Cyrus/ Demi Lovato mix cd. I'm on a low residue diet to try and limit this sort of thing! (But thanks for the Fightstar and Frank Turner tracks). Ta also Maria for slippers and book and Bridie for Holy Water.

Wendy and Colin round tonight for send off meal. Wendy showed us the latest baby scan. We're both being seen at the hospital, we both tire easily, have to drink loads of liquids and get ravenous .....but I'll be able to have a few G & Ts soon!