Wednesday and I am up and breakfasted early as I am attending the community of communities annual forum today. Today I do not take my blood thinner medication in anticipation of tomorrows surgery. I settle down in front of my laptop and log in to the annual forum. I spend the rest of my day until 4 o’clock involved with the forum. The most affecting part of the day was a session labeled “conference gallery”. It contained presentations by therapeutic communities of what the spirit of their community is. I was taken aback to see presentations from TCs that I was responsible for setting up and had managed. One of my old TCs had created ceramic hero bears to acknowledged the efforts during COVID of their staff team. This TC is in a prison and to see the residents of prison acknowledge the positive relationship with the prison staff in this way was breath taking. The bears themselves were an inspiration. At lunch time I popped out to post letters and then took a phone call from the hospital nurse checking that I was not a COVID risk. She told me that if my COVID test had been positive I would have heard by now so I can assume that I am clear. The forum comes to an end for the day and I put my dressing gowns in to the wash to take with me tomorrow and go to the gym to train. I row for thirty minutes and when I finish I relaid the gym flooring in the garage.
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We eat tune pasta tea a day early at my request as I fear I might have a very sore mouth tomorrow and be restricted to smoothies for a while. I settle down to watch football and to write the blog. Currently the family has a lot to deal with with the complexities and worries of arranging continuing 24 hour care for my partners mother and my surgery. Hopefully by Friday all this will be resolved for a while. At the moment the household is on perseverance and adaption mode.
