On the Road Again!

It has to be sixty years since I last wore sandals.  With the heatwave, my feet have been roasting in trainers and ankle socks.  So Claire suggested I get sandals. I wasn't going to be seen dead wearing "Jesus" sandals or anything with my toes on view. So as usual I went to the Internet.  Sports Direct and other shops i can actually visit.  None appealed.  So it was back to Amazon!  These look a lot chunkier and have "closed toe". Did I say I don't like toes.... They are weird to get used to. Don't think they look too bad? I opted for tan colour although the light blue ones looked really cool too. As long as any sandals are cool.

We cancelled the trip that would have taken us to the Cathargo Malibu factory at Aulendorf mostly due to the weather and that we have a 16yo dog.  He was really not coping with the overly hot weather in June. No one expected to be 1300m above aea level and it being 36°C!! The email to Eurotunnel wasn't as productive as I had hoped.  We could change the date of travel but... the year you can book in is from when the ticket was bought not from when you are booked to travel. I booked the crossing on January 16th. So if we change the date we'd have to travel before then. It's not that great a deal. Hopefully, the weather will start to revert to normal and we can still go in September.  To cancel would lose us over £300. We will have to source breakdown cover for the van and travel insurance for us and of course, repatriation for Reggie. Where to go? Germany still? Or stay more local in France. I had thought of maybe Alcossebre again!!!! Let's see wha...

So. Monday and back to SDEC at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford Kent. Some of the bloods from Friday aren't back from the lab. The blood culture, where they add your blood to two bottles containing something, came back normal.  The indicator about my liver came back lower than Friday. The numbers mean nothing apart from Friday's 500 something is now Monday's 250. The same indicator was 173 in France and 153 two Fridays ago.... They let me go pending further tests including an ultrasound.  Once that's done it's high tail to SDEC. So we are no nearer to knowing what is happening and how to cure it. As a result we cancelled the trip to Norfolk this weekend.

This sets up another World Cup clash with Argentina.  England will now have to contend with the eleven on pitch opponents and the referee and VAR.

It's over for another year.  Another year where I have struggled to get any miles under the wheels on both bikes.  Another year of one sickness after another.  Another year of seeing myself being less of a biker and more of a vanlifer. Here I am in 124th place. Hopefully they will remove all the zero miles entrants from the spreadsheet.

A week ago we left the hospital and told to come back Tuesday.  On Monday, we got a call to say instead of Tuesday the appointment was changed to 9am at A&E Reception. Up early we arrived in good time. A bit of a walk around and we ended up in the "SDEC Hot Clinic". After three different blood takings and sitting about we were told we could go. The problem seems to circulate around some indicators in the blood and my liver.  I have akso been told to drop three of my nightly pill regime.  And now we move to next Monday and back to SDEC.

After six hours on the charger yesterday and another four today, I went into the garage to remove the Bluetti. The powerbank was down to 42%. Once disconnected from the charger I thought I'd give it a go.... It's  alive!!   Tomorrow will be another go to get the battery strength and then we will see.