Toby's Troubles

After a very early morning get up, we arrived at Jon's surgery in Lichfield at about 9:20. Jon mentioned that a very urgent spinal injury case had come in overnight so he couldn't guarantee that he could fit me in today after all but would try his best. If we hadn't heard from him before 5:00pm, we were to ring to see what was happening.

M & D were a bit disappointed by this, not knowing again if my leg was going to be mended today or not but they decided to hang around the area rather than go home, just in case Jon managed to fit me in.

They told me later they first went to Tesco's for a cup of tea and a sticky bun but daddy ended up having a humungeous bucket of black forest hot chocolate, mummy had a cup of tea and they shared an iced cup cake and a chocolate orange tart. For 11's of course.

Afterwards, they had a wander round the streets of Lichfield looking in the shops and bought a few bits and bobs. They then got in the car and popped over to a retail park in Tamworth for a bit of dinner and more shopping. Mummy bought a nice new black winter coat from M & S. Whilst eating pie and chips for dinner in ASDA, mummy got a phone call from the surgery at about 1:45pm. Daddy took the call as it was very noisy in ASDA and was told I had had my surgery and was just recovering from the anaesthetic. M & D were very relieved by this so had a bit of after dinner chocolate to celebrate. They were to wait for a further phone call to say when I could be collected. The call was made about 4:00pm and they were to collect me at 5:30pm.

After further shopping, M & D came back to collect me. Jon was very happy how the operation went and showed M & D a few x-rays of before and after. Hopefully, they will appear here soon. Jon handed over some more tablets for me to take, mummy handed over some chocolates to say thanks to Jon for fitting me in so quickly and we all went home.