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2008 - February 13th - Thursday

JH woke up with sore throat, and flagged during the day, and went to bed early as feeling so exhausted: this viral infection lasted for 2/52, and it was another 2/52 before JH finally felt better.  However, JH was better off than a number of other people who did not manage to keep going with their normal activities, coughed incessantly, had very disturbed sleep, and croaked to the point of losing their voices.  Fortunately the Skinners down in East Anglia escaped the worst of this epidemic.


Ernest Nister, London
 

2008 - February 19th - Tuesday

Kathy and JH had long chat on phone:  JH was coughing away and K asked JH if this was a problem with taking Zanidip but JH said she had had a respiratory tract infection (RTI), having first noticed that she had a sore throat on 13th February.  Kathy confirmed the dates that she and Ralph would like to stay with JH: they would travel down to Plymouth on Sunday 29 June 2008, they would spend Monday 30th recovering from the journey, and then they would meet their friends, Bill and Ann, who live in Cyprus but who will be on a visit to Relatives in Plymouth at that time; there were considerably more discussions about the arrangements for the Skinners’ visit to Plymouth.  

Kathy also confirmed again with JH that JH would be travelling down to Chez Skinner in Hadleigh on Thursday 1st May, after meeting Walter and Ann during the day.  JH would stay at Hadleigh until Tuesday 6th May.  JH mentioned that, whilst she was staying at Hadleigh, she would like to make a trip to Foulness Island; Kathy said that one had to book ‘permission’ to go on the Island (which arrangements brother Bill knows all about) because there is a Service Training Base thereon.  Also an arrangement has already been made for a visit to another of Kathy’s friends for some special family event; furthermore, K, R and JH all have it in mind that we would like to visit the Age Exchange Reminiscence Centre in Blackheath, which JH learnt about at an exhibition she ‘gate-crashed’ in November 2007 in Greenwich. 

Kathy is also determined to invite Tony Benn to the Millennium Reunion in 2009 (he having mentioned Mrs Hipsey in his book Dare to be a Daniel).  JH offered to give Ralph a recording of The Castles, ie, Steam train recordings made in Plymouth in 1964 on an extended-play record which JH picked up off the stall in Harewood House.  JH and Kathy had one or two other brief phone chats later in the week about all these plans; JH was able to tell K that JH felt much better, but the viral RTI did not finally go away for about another week.

2008 - February 27th - Wednesday

JH received some newspaper cuttings about things to do with kidney donation/transplant from Kathy.  In particular there was mention of World Kidney Day (WKD) which was inaugurated in March 2006 - and due to be held on 13 March 2008.
 

2008 - March 4th - Tuesday

JH went to her GP Surgery for a pneumoccocal pneumonia vaccination which had been offered to all senior citizens recently.  JH had postponed her vaccination from a week earlier as she was still feeling unwell.  Whilst at the surgery, Kim, the Practice Nurse who works at the Surgery to cover A/L, etc. checked JH’s B/P, 138/72; she also printed off three prescriptions for JH: Zanidip, HRT cream, and eumovate cream – which JH discovered was very expensive, when she bought a small tube over the counter – to treat JH’s various eczematous rashes, particularly round her ankles.

2008 - March 8th - Saturday

JH took some paracetamol in the evening and throughout Sunday, as rather troubled by her sciatica.

2008 - March 13th - Thursday
 
JH had received a newspaper cutting from Kathy £1m Hospital Unit Unveiling to take place on WKD in Southend.

 
 		 Link to "Southend Hospital New Kidney Unit"
Essex Echo - 12/03/2008

 
External Website:

www.worldkidneyday.org

World Kidney day is a joint initiative of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations (IFKF). Whose mission is to raise awareness of the importance of our kidneys to our overall health and to reduce the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems worldwide.



 
 
 
 
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