Monday and I wake up in the spare room after a reasonable night. Once again the irritating symptoms of my bladder stone have not been present at night so I start the day optimistically. I doze for a while but by 8:30 I am ringing my doctor to inform him of how I am and that my repeat meds have disappeared off the web site. He says he will push the Urology team and suggests I ring the Oncology specialist nurse to get them to push for an answer to where I am on the waiting list. Once finished with the doctor I ring the oncology nurse and leave a message. About an hour later I get a call from the General hospital saying someone will ring me today or tomorrow. It is progress of a sort. I stay in bed for a while doing my morning routine vitals check, eating toast and taking my meds.

When I do get up it is to recline on the sofa to await the return of my partner who has gone to the gym. I while away some of the time watching my builder badgers receiving another delivery of paving blocks and sand. I become aware that the electric badger is also on site when he rings the door bell to get access to the electricity supply to finish putting in the patio lights and power. He also returns so that he can gain access to the garage in order to put up a new security wall light at the front of the house. Its not long before he is back at the front door saying good bye and handing me an invoice for the work he has done. It gives me a chore to complete as I set about BACSing the money to him.

So far my strategy of staying horizonal has worked and I endeavour to remain that way for the rest of the day taking a very long nap in the afternoon. I had intended to read but fell asleep. I did though contact the Americans about one of the finalised manuscripts pointing out that a whole page with just a date on it was a bit wasteful and asking to see if there was a formatting solution. I still think I am talking to AI bot most of the time. By tea time I am all napped out and go and look at the patio and its newly functional lights. There was the simple childish pleasure of switching the lights on for he first time. The badgers leave and I go outside to see how much they have done. The are on the home run now and the new gate pillars are growing in height. Tomorrow should be a day of nearing completion before all of the fiddly finishing off jobs. While admiring the patio lights I notice just how magnificent my garden is being in the midst of all this construction chaos and take photos of some of the star performers.

I have neglected my garden these past six badger weeks but the flowers have been very for giving as the pictures show, even the climbing rose that we hacked back mercilessly and stuck in a temporary pot is showing a profusion of new shoots and buds. Nature it appears is once again demonstrating its come back ability. The evening rolls around and there is an England friendly game to watch after which I shall take my evening meds and get an early night. I think I am trying to sleep my way through this latest Uluru (bladder stone) attack like an old style life sentence prisoner in the bad old days. There is of course the Tesco order to update but that is a minor chore easily done. Will I have the time or inclination to sit in the dark garden trying to see the alignment of six planets, I doubt it but I might see if I can sneak a peek if I discover where I should look, there is a lot of light pollution around the house which might make it tricky anyway.

By the end of the day I have tested the new drive floodlight, the patio lights in the dark and got through the day, right up till the last moments when my Uluru symptoms start again. I down my drugs and get to bed as quickly as I can, sleep hopefully will ease things. Tomorrow is another day.