Monday June 5

It is nearly 3.00pm.  I am sitting in front of my Mac at the round table in the flat and Joan is sitting opposite me, working on her laptop. 

Today I had pain from the get-go, not so much as I walked around the flat; but, when I set out to walk to the Library, the pain increased in my back and down my leg, and at times I thought I would not be able to get there...but I did, with a couple of times bending down and pretending to be tying my shoelaces, which seems to allow me to walk another 50 yards, before the shoe-tying needs to be repeated.

I went to the Library because Joan had a zoom call scheduled for about an hour from 10.00am

So nice in the Kensington Library...found an interesting book, a comfortable chair,  and I read on and off for an hour or so. The Library is a huge, high-ceilinged hall with a maze of book-shelves, and a main walkway down through the middle. At the far end, there is a place where little children gather and play and sing: and, as I sat there reading, there was a constant procession of women pushing little kids past me in strollers, or sometimes the toddlers were walking. Occasionally the pusher of the stroller looked like the mother of the child, but much more often it was middle-aged nanny, or a younger au-pair girl. Obviously lots of working mothers in this area.

The return from the Library was agonizing, and at one time I thought I couldn't make it--except perhaps by crawling--but I did, and as soon as I got in we set in motion a contact for an appointment at an orthopaedic clinic, and we were able to get one today at 7.30 this evening. Joan went across the street and cancelled the appointment with the physiotherapist that I had made for Wednesday afternoon.

I have to get this sorted out....