So had call at mid-day to say bed available and Covid test negative. Packed bag before 30 min drive to hospital for 2:30 arrival.
Now settled in at Harefield Hilton - kick-off 7:30am tomorrow , pre-match warm up of shave & shower @6:30
So far it's been fine (apart from no visitor rule making for tearful drop-off):
- meet & greet - calm and smooth
- wait for bed filled with form filling and attaching of no less than 3 ID bracelets
- then more forms, coffee & choosing dinner
- canula and blood letting (matching for transfusìon being main thing)
- more forms
- nice dinner (Chicken tikka)
- chat with surgeon
- more forms (including consent etc)
- X-ray (CT scan operator gone home but one from 11 July recent enough)
- more forms (during which my companion nurse for the duration (Lola) revealed she had miss-heard my age as 66 earlier.
- chin to ankle 'front shave'
- hibiscus scrub shower
- another blood because one of the bunch taken earlier did behave properly
- possessions inventory
It seems no more tonight - not even forms.
Steve