the robot<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\nI\u2019m staying the night again, so no doubt there will be the opportunity for some sparkling social commentary. Especially, if someone else pebble dashes my cubicle with Aldi\u2019s finest cottage pie again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The professor is a big fan of plan A. He likes what he knows and he knows what he likes. Based on cold, hard data and clinical experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The surgery will tell us for sure what the end game for treatment should be and the extent of it. Otherwise, we’re just taking a wild punt and spaffing radiation all over the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was very tempted to cancel everything, cuddle all the toilet rolls and hand sanitiser filling the spare bedrooms, but no – I\u2019m trusting the experts. Without question, interruption or dissent. I\u2019m going to be a big brave boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not sure quite what\u2019s happened to me on the dissent score, but here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the time I\u2019ve seen a load of people in the surgical admissions lab, porters, anaesthetists, a surgical team, the recovery ward and all the people on my ward, I should have a healthy dose of the Chinese virus, and I was just going to get the tube in for a laugh but I\u2019ve decided I\u2019ll just lick the door handles of the Sainsbury\u2019s in Tooting Broadway to make sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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