All the best Harold.
While we are on the topic of missing Radio Robins while in hospital I must confess to a month's absence.
Mrs Bath Alty has been in for 4 weeks being hacked about by surgeons. Originally having her voice box removed due to cancer tumour stuck to the back of it (most unfair at just 51 and never smoked and uses barely a weeks recommended alcohol intake in a year!). Then the bit of arm they used to reconstruct her throat died, not good, so operation no 2 to take it out again and finally op number three to remove her oesophagus and replace it with her stomach which was the only thing left they could join on to where her voice box used to be. 31 days since she last had a drink and at least a week to go.
So no big Christmas dinners and meals little and often is the way forward once it has all healed up and she is waterproof internally again. That and breathing through a hole in her neck and having to learn to talk again (it doesn't work well if you have no air flow through your mouth or nose).......
She has done amazingly well bless her and is now home for a bit (so I might be back in radio robins land on Saturday). Still praying we can dodge the radiotherapy if they got all the microscopic bits when they took the tumour out.
Blimey...that puts everything into perspective.....hopefully she will make a full recovery &...as you say......radiotherapy can be avoided.It's incredible what can be achieved, surgery wise, these days, isn't it?
By the way, my son was chatting to someone who knew you, on the train to the game on Saturday....I have it in my mind that he was a West Brom fan, but I'm not 100% sure.
All the best to Mrs. BA during her recuperation.