02/03/2024
Hello, everyone. You all may have seen that I'm still not readily available and I'm here to explain why and ask that you might bear with me as I'm not done yet. Anyone who knows me will have seen me getting weaker, using a walking stick and aging an awful lot over a short space of time, especially since having pneumonia and pleurisy (twice). Well I got fed up with the silly excuses GPs were coming up with and got myself seen at a hospital where "masses" (and I'm not even catholic) were found on my lung and heart. They've already looked at the lung with a "oh its just really small and you'll hardly notice it" camera (yeah right) and pretty much ruled out cancer, with it being mostly left over stuff from the pneumonia.
My heart has essentially, a big flappy bit in one of the chambers that doesn't belong, and whilst these things are mostly benign it still has to come out, as it looks like its probably the root cause of all my health issues. This means open heart surgery in the next fortnight or so, which may interfere with my ability to fix PCs. I do still want to have a job to come back to (I'm too damn stubborn to die) eventually, so please, stick with me, watch this space and like Arnie, I'll be back!