| Re: A personal update - a.k.a. why I have not checked the TVM at Melksham Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 22:43, 30th March 2026 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |

Please don't - you'll set member broadgage off on yet another one!

| A personal update - a.k.a. why I have not checked the TVM at Melksham Posted by grahame at 21:30, 30th March 2026 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I rode the bus across Bath and connected on to Melksham this afternoon. A lovely bright afternoon, and seeing the beauty of the world and all its facets. Four pictures - Bath City Centre, a gull, an island bus stop, and Shaw Church. The fifth picture is in the RUH (Royal United Hospital) - the empty bed I was discharged from today prior to than bus journey home.
I was called in, urgently, just before the weekend after abnormal test results. "Day Surgery" ward but I ended up being admitted and only being discharged this afternoon - Monday. Seeing so many other patients far worse off than I am is very humbling; I have lost the best part of a stone, weaker on my feet and tubed up, but nothing malignant. Probably a "day surgery" op later in the year. Discomfort but no pain; brain working ... a bit wobblier on my feet but still, already, well enough to use the bus home.
I know that starting three paragraphs with "I" is very self-centred, but just today and this one post IS me. I am refactoring April and knocking back plans to be away early in the month. These Easter weeks will now be a welcomed window to recover - a "time off" prior to a resumption of my norm thereafter. Big "thank you" to those stepping in for me at today's meeting and helping otherwise too. Knowing me, the time off will be a chance to have my thoughts wander, write, perhaps do some coding. And being around, I'll now be able to watch "Race across the World" and "Married at First Site". Convalescence - which this recover is - does not mean I will re-instate meetings - I'll be quietly at home, with perhaps one or two gentle outings.
Nothing but praise for the hospital staff ... whole subject there ... I completed their review form, where they asked for suggestions of how they could have done better, all I could do was add a "Thank You"














