17th September

Osprey
John Bowering
Fri 18 Sep 2009 07:50

We paid our second visit to the hospital today and Anita had her wounds checked and re-dressed. All seems ok and we are to report back again on Saturday. Looks like a visit every two days until they are sure there is no infection and healing is well underway. The stitches are not self dissolving so we will have to have them removed at the hospital before we leave or John will have to take them out when they are ready. The Doctor has advised Anita to keep her hand in a sling so she is now fitted out with a proper collar and cuff device which is driving her around the bend as there is not much she can do for herself whilst wearing it. We have to find her a hairdressers today so she can get her hair washed – she is not keen on John using the wash down hose to do it. We are also going to try and get up the cable car to the top of Gibraltar tomorrow and start having a look around. A small but fascinating place steeped in history – mostly naval. It’s quite amazing how such a small place could have such an impact on events in Europe and the Mediterranean. Its interesting that in comparison with the USA, Bermuda and the Caribbean, the marina’s we have come across so far on this side of the pond are pretty disorganised and untidy in comparison and getting them to answer emails and phone calls is very difficult. Hopefully this will improve as we move further east but the news from other boats is not encouraging. Equally chandleries are well below the standard we have come to expect on the eastern seaboard so keeping stores up to speed on the boat is not going to be as straightforward as it was before. We are both enjoying Gib and the enforced stop here looks like being great fun apart from the bi-daily walk to the hospital.