December 2025

 Following K’ s recovery, he developed a slight impatience which we all noticed. The famously ‘ impressively patient’ K was developing chinks in his armour.  This term was busy too with R going for medical placements in W£arwick hospital and GP placement in N&ewtown hospital. These were busy days and the first time I saw her in a surgeon’s scrub shifted something inside me.

I still remember the struggle to keep her alive ‘in utero’ and my promise to God - if she was allowed to live we will make her save other lives one way or another.

She saw one hip replacement, two c sections, 1 rectal surgery and spent a day in A&E. She also spent a day with the GP and MSK services. She thoroughly enjoyed it all and would take the cab to the station, come back by train, get picked up by her dad and rush to me, excited to narrate her day.

As usual it was very entertaining - especially the one who blacked out and revealed haltingly ‘ I only had a pint, every half hour, for 7 hours the day before!’ ( in A & e) and the doctor who made the same ‘joke’ word for word in all his c sections :)

She also studied really hard, getting up early and doing late nights. In the parents meeting with her teachers her teachers advised we need to take her away as she is putting too much pressure on herself. 

She wrapped up her grade 7 singing but the tutor was going to be busy with her own performances so we had to find an alternate tutor for the final grade.

Thankfully we found one, but this term she promised would need a lot from R. 

R also went for a day long Xmas choir service, so the weekend was equally long as well.

I had moved from perm to contracting so once again, all 3 of us were in the phase of stretching ourselves and working our hardest.

So, we described at the very last minute to travel. We had one of our friends’ daughters half saree function in Tanjore and most of the gang was going. We would have loved to go but R said she could only spare a week so that plan was dropped.

We booked Egypt at the very very last moment and she had her GP placement wrap up the day before travel. She also studied for 3 hours after coming back from her GP work experience!Thankfully she had packed  the weekend before so at least that stress was spared!

The travel diaries to follow..