Rowan Tree and Red Thread

I'm back from the New Year's celebrations and a brief break up in Dublin visiting my mother, brother and his wife. The Christmas period was spent with sammywol's folks in West Cork, the New Year with my relatives, and now I feel like I could do with another break just spent at home. Unfortunately I'm back to work tomorrow (I should have been back on Tuesday but I took annual leave so as to celebrate my birthday (the 2nd) in Dublin and to ease back into the Cork scene gently.

I feel that I should be treating myself gently because I've got a trip to hospital scheduled for Monday. Recently the very clever people in the Cork University Hospital (CUH) decided that I have primary hyperparathroidism, and it's this condition that has provoked the kidney stones I've suffered from in the last 3 years or so.

This means that I'm into the hospital on Sunday evening, overnight there and get a scan on the Monday morning. If all is ready to go, I'm in on Monday afternoon to have the offending gland excised (it's likely one of the four PT glands and I hope I won't miss it). This done, I'm assured that I won't have any repetition of the kidney stone business. Fingers crossed.