Happy Birthday to me....

My word, doesn't time fly when your having fun! Yes its another wonderful blog from yours truly, and as ever, my life doesn't run exactly to plan!

Now, as you may be aware, my operation had been put back until the end of september. All was well and good with that, until monday when I got a phone call from the hospital.

They told me that the date they had booked in was unavailable because they couldn't get an anaesthetist in to knock me out, and as I probably didn't want the operation without the drugs (!), they have moved the date, not forward like you would imagine, but alot sooner!

My operation date is now definately the 19th september. I go in on the friday, have the operation on the saturday, then spend a week in hospital before hobbling out and having a few weeks off work, which I think is worth all the aggro!

The problem with this is that its my birthday on the wednesday I am in hospital (23rd), but I suppose all you want to do on your birthday is be pampered, and it saves me spending money on bringing in cakes to work, so those two boxes are well and truly ticked! Annoyed that I'm otherwise inconvenienced on my birthday, though, but I'm just grateful the date has finally come around, although its been so long since I was told about the operation originally, that I almost forgot that I was going to have my face sliced open to have the skin graft!!

The op is now going to be at Russells Hall Hospital in cuddly Dudley, which is a very nice Trust hospital, and its lovely and clean, which saves infections where you really don't want it!

This week also saw the mighty Villa take on the not-so-mighty Liverpool. We played far better than them for the majority of the game, although Martin O'Neills substitutions left us all baffled, but it was a decent enough game that we really should have won, and it shows just how far the club has come that we were disappointed to have only drawn 0.0 with them.

Only 2 blogs till the op!!