Great news! I visited the surgeon who performed my operation 2 weeks ago and he is amazed at my rate of healing. He says my recovery is more consistent with someone who has been recovering for a month.

He has given me the go-ahead to start swimming, cycling and what he calls "all your usual activities" with the proviso that I don't "move any pianos for a few more weeks yet". I don't know why I should heal quickly...perhaps it is the enormous amount of milk I drink. Who knows!

Added benefits of all of this are the results of tests which are routinely performed for those who go under the knife. I have no glimmer of such modern diseases as diabetes and my cholesterol is the lowest it has ever been since it was first tested in 1986.

I attribute the low cholesterol to the change to skim, from full cream milk, and the addition to my diet of many japanese foods.



How does one celebrate a bit of good medical news such as this? Well, I make a super thick minestrone. Only difference to a normal minestrone is the addition of Korean chilli (just to give it a mild kick), a diced golden sweet potato and an extra portion of bacon.