Yes. I see the counters are dusty and the windows need to be cleaned. And don’t get me started about the cobwebs. I shall set about dusting, and washing and opening windows. I will try to remember where I have been since I last visited here, and if I learned anything, about life, love or lollipops….. I think there is wisdom everywhere.

For instance, this is what I learned today: when inserting an IV, it is much better for everyone who may be sitting near you ten minutes later, if the tech remembers to tighten some little knobby thing on the IV. What those folks who we’re sitting next to me in the waiting room learned (it’s a learning day), is that if that little do-jobby is not tightened, you start to spurt and leak blood all over. The nice lady in her paper dress sitting directly on my left expressed with complete clarity, and without saying a word, that she did not find this learning moment as satisfying as I did. Each at their own pace, I say.