Listen up, people! Pay attention to the date of the previous article! My apologies if I scared some of you! To avoid any further misunderstandings: of course we stay here! We like it here! We love the food here! We hate the seasons! We even love IKA! After all they paid for my hospital...
Read more →After 2 days I still couldn’t remember the name of my new doctor. I kept referring to him as “Curly” to Yvonne. So, Curly came to see me today at around 11:00 and removed the bandages (and the toilet roll!) of the stefanography. It didn’t look pretty down there! My right groin was all...
Read more →I didn’t sleep well at all. The roll of toilet paper they had tightly strapped to my right groin was hurting all night. The nurse had explained that it was necessary, to make sure that the vein in my groin would close completely. A good thing they will take it away in a couple...
Read more →During breakfast the doctors come in and tell me to get ready for the stress test. I haven’t finished my tea yet and I ask “Now?“. Yes, is the simple answer. A nurse is already waiting with a wheelchair to bring me to the test room. There I get strapped up with a dozen...
Read more →Old Manolis in the corner has a private nurse who can’t talk in whispers. She keeps me awake. At midnight the nurses came to put the anti-trombose injection in my belly. It’s beginning to hurt and it’s full of blue spots. At 05:30 they come round again for medicin distribution and blood taking. I...
Read more →Tuesday, six thirty in the evening. Dinner has just been brought in and the room is full of visitors. I’ve been here for 3 full days now, yet Saturday afternoon seems like months away. I don’t feel any pain, have not felt any for more than 48 hours, so I’m bored stiff. Of my...
Read more →Today Birte is moving out and I have promised to give the movers a hand with the heavy stuff. She lives on the first floor and since the elevator has not been fixed, we have to carry everything down the stairs. In the meantime I also have to contact Tellas for the new ADSL...
Read more →Okay, one more quicky before I go to sleep, because it is the end of the week, and I owe you some entries for the time lost these months. I’ve been asked a few times why I write this blog in English. While I gracefully try to cover up that I don’t have a...
Read more →Yes, yes, we are still doing fine. We had a beautiful summer this year. The weather was absolutely fantastic and we practically went “camping” every weekend at some remote beach in the south of the provinces of Iraklio and Rethymno. We covered the whole stretch from Tertsá, west of Ierapetra, to Rodákino, just short...
Read more →Well, summer is over, more or less. We still have regular sunny days, but we’re never sure of it anymore. That means that we have to take something warm and waterproof with us when we leave the house. The socks have also come out of the drawer at the beginning of this month. It’s...
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