Month: June 2025

Have you ever had surgery? What for?

Unfortunately I have had surgery many times. When I was 7 I had my appendix removed. When I was 10 I had adhesions and had a small part of my bowel removed.

At 18 I had my tonsils out.

At 23 I needed a D&C after a miscarriage and again after another miscarriage when I was 25.

I had a procedure when I was 40 to remove a polyp from my cervix.

This isn’t going well you’re thinking. This must be the lot.

No

I needed my heart shocked back into the sinus rhythm after having Atrial fibrillation.

When I was 72 I had a pre cancerous tumour removed from my bowel.

And after all that I’m still here. Amazing!

Aren’t doctors and nurses wonderful.

What notable things happened today?

Unfortunately the tragic plane crash in India dominated the headlines. So sad to see lives of so many gone in a matter of minutes.

Those on the ground going about their daily lives gone too.

So sad to see the young gay couple who had sent a video from their hotel before boarding the plane. They spoke of how they had such a great time in India and talked about their plans to make a blog with the highlights of their trip. 😢

The trouble persisted here in Northern Ireland with riots targeting immigrants who were living peacefully in the communities. Police being targeted and families being burned out of their homes.

A leisure centre attacked and fire bombed on the erroneous assertion that the evacuated families were there.

What has happened to humanity ?

So all and all a notable day. Lives changed in the blink of an eyelid.

It’s hard to come to terms with these happenings.

If you had to change your name, what would your new name be?

I think I’d change it to something that would make people laugh.

Imagine being in a queue and lots of bored people waiting for their name to be called. Imagine their faces when I was called with my new name Daisy Duck.

No more plain Ann Allan. Well you did ask 😂

Describe your dream chocolate bar.

My dream chocolate bar will be one that tastes like a Mars Bar but has no calories.

So a moment on the lips won’t be a lifetime on the hips.

Do you remember your favorite book from childhood?

It has to be Heidi by Joanna Spyri.

I used to imagine that I had a grandfather, I didn’t, both died long before I was born and he lived like Heidi’s grandfather up in the Alps.

I could imagine the little wooden hut and my cosy little bed covered with a sheep fleece. It was always warm and we spent our day out on the mountain. I know, I was very naive at 16 😂