Typical weather for the holiday weekend…

Ah, so the 10th day has arrived.

Whilst I appreciated the rapid attention at A&E, I’m not entirely sure the consultant truly spends a lot of his time stitching wounds.

The stitching was first rate but the decision to then plaster the area with surgical glue would appear to have been overkill (as well as probably not recommended) and this has now created a nightmare for Mo to remove the stiches. All the knots just clogged in superglue…

This is the prescription from the North Hampshire hospital (excluding the glasses). Not what one might expect but ingenious nevertheless.

 

And after 90 (yes the zero is not a typo) minutes of picking glue, cutting and prodding, the sutures were fully removed. All 6 of them.

 

 

It’s now over 30 degrees in the shade – time for some sunbathing – signing off for today now…

Nothing much to report on day 9. Most of the morning was spent preparing for the big day tomorrow – Mo get’s to remove my stitches.

There’s some last minute panic buying going on to try to buy something to loosen the glue the surgeon spread all over the wound and sutures. The glue is the medical equivalent of superglue.

Petroleum Jelly doesn’t work. Acetone (nail varnish remover from Aldi) is having some success in breaking up the glue bond but it’s still painstaking progress.

Watch out for tomorrow’s update – will we end up at the Spanish hospital after all?

We are becoming acclimatised to the Spanish way of life and by the time we arrived in Cadiz it was late afternoon (maybe even early evening!) and having spent a couple of hours wandering around the Old Town, we decided to we would need to re-visit to properly explore.

Late night BBQ back at the campsite.