Sailing around the World, ( presently in Mauritius, )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sun 17 Oct 2010 13:28
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FRIDAY 15th OCTOBER
2010
Neil got up early and went off with the other
youngsters ( well that may be debateble ) to start on their PADDI
course,
Its great to see the younger adults doing these
diving courses, as they will really stand to them later in life..... Aileen went off to Mass praying for the patient in
the Clinique.......
Meanwhile, in the Clinique, Skipper is wide awake,
feeling bloody sore and blood all over his bed clothes, Tubes into his arm and
out of his
thing. yeach ! Ohhhhh all sooooo
sore............... BUT , But , the stone is gone ,
Dr, Issac, the urologist appeared with the
lovely Dr lisette Mohith ( The Dutch Lady I mentioned yesterday whose mother
came from Belfast )
appeared and sat down for a chat, Skipper had to
explain all about the sailing trip, The boat , the other boats, etc,
etc,
They eventually informed Skipper that all went well
with the operation and he could go back to the boat later in the
day.
They presented him with the stone in a glass
jar, Well it looked like a pearl to us.
The blinking thing, sitting there looking harmless,
but did it inflict some excrutiating pain on the Skip.
Skipper also had a visit from the " Patient Welfare
Officer" A young Indian lady and all biz, She even took a photo of
the patient for some future magazine of theirs, A patient welfare
officer,, .........well thats a new one... This was followed by the male nurse
removing the tubes from
Skippers thing,, Ahhhhhhhhhhh the
pain of it alll .... Gawd , hope there are no more of these
stones lying around the body.
11.00hrs, Aileen and Terry arrived at the Clinique
and waited around for Skipper to shower, shave, and get dressed, get all the
tablets
needed over the next 4 days, ie, Pain
killers, Anti inflamitories, and Antibiotics, and the worst tablet of
all...............No drink for 4 days,
We had a coffee in the canteen before leaving and
returning to " A Lady" in Port Louis .....
Later in the afternoon, We arranged to have the
batteries for the electric davitts to be replaced, Funny thing, Skipper thought
taht all the batteries on the boat were sealed
batteries, but he was wrong. and the two under the deck in the Lazetette were
normal batteries
and of course should have been given distilled
water every 5 months or so. but that did not happen, so the batteries just died
or melted
or something like that and now we had to
replace the 2 of them..
Terry , Collette, and Aileen went off for a drive,
while Skipper and Neill changed the fuel filters on the Engine and generator,
There was a lot of
water and general dirt in the filters but so far
have not affected the performance of both engines, We obviously got a fill of
dirty fuel
somewhere along the way. but it would be
difficult to say where. Anyway, we have it all cleaned up now, so we
should be ok.
Terry changed the Aqua filter on the fresh water
system, Collette brought out a replacment with her .... Interesting thing, Fresh
water
is called " Sweet Water " by all the boats on the
trip....
Later, as we sat in the cockpit, along came the "
Bubbly Bev" with her Mum and Dad, who had flowen to Mauritius for a break and
say hello
to their daughter, Interesting, Her Dad " Stuart "
reader the Blog every day and as a result , he brought out to Mauritius a packet
of
Sausages for us, having read all about
the Sausages that spat back at Skipper one night while cooking
dinner.
We thought that was a great gesture, and much
appreciated.
Of course " the Bubbly Bev " is our name for the
vivacious Beverly, Her dad said that they used to call her " Beverly
Bubbles " when she
was a little girl growing up.... how about that for
coincidence............................ Telepithy !
Dinner was cooked by Aileen , we had a beef
Stroginouf ( Aileen bought skipper a dictionary because of his inability
to spell things properly,
however, it does not have a spelling for
Stroginoff, so much for dictionaries...) and I wouldent mind, but it
is a big dictionary.........
Anyway , the dinner was a great success, and
skipper was happy to be back on board having dinner, even without the
wine,
We had an early night, well skipper did,
Aileen caught up on her emails, and Terry and Collette went for a stroll around
the Waterfront.
Thats all from a whacked out skipper .
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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