Back at Ashton Lock and its peace again..

Moored Ashton Lock, Oundle, River Nene

It was a round trip involving 12 hours of travel for a 10 minute appointment at the John Radcliffe Hospital at Oxford.  A quick check of Vic’s circulation found that things are certainly not too serious although he will need a scan to see what is going on, so it will be a return there in about 4 to 6 weeks for that.

That is one of the biggest problms when deciding to retire on the waterways.. if prolonged hospital attention is required you do need to stick to one bospital.  You see records are not yet on a national database, and we sure have read about that disaster lately!  This means that different hospitals are not keen on handing over scans and xrays etc to other hospitals.  We thought Vic’s appointment would have come through much quicker than the 3 month wait we had.  When we first knew there was a problem with his legs we were in Banbury..

But we decided to continue our summer visit to East Anglia, knowing that we would be near to Cambridge at the time of the appointment and there are buses from Cambridge to Oxford.  But we did not take into account an accident to our border collie Lucy.  Now she needed a hospital for herself and needed to be based round it for her to recover.. that place was Peterborough!

Hence our long journey over the last two days.. Lucy’s accident has put us back a month.. but hey, Lucy is recovering fast under her ‘doc’ in Peterborough, and Vic is being looked after by his ‘doc’ in Oxford.. nothing is impossible