Garry McGivern’s Travelsonabike2 July-2018 cycle touring photos. Photographs that have appeared on the website over the past month. Taken as Garry has travelled around on his bike. This month’s photos come from trips to the New Forest and Isle of Wight. And an unfortunate trip to the hospital, which resulted in Garry being admitted to the intensive care unit and put in an induced coma!
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Wilson stopped by to say hello
Garry enjoying the sunshine
Felpham seafront
There’s meant to be a beer shortage so Garry stocked up
Garry enjoying a pint
A strange blister appeared on Garry’s hand
Felpham seafront this morning
The dry scorched grass on Southsea common
Garry taking a rest at Lee-on-Solent
Lovely curry for supper tonight
The tablets Garry has to take each day
All loaded up and ready to go
Coming into Yarmouth harbour
Looking back towards Yarmouth
Camped on the cliff edge
Think I might get the train home
Scarecrow on the campsite
Pygmy pig at Grange Farm
Chickens at Grange Farm
Geese at Grange Farm
Donkey at Grange Farm
Rabbit at Grange Farm
Donkey at Grange Farm
Garry and Gordon at Grange Farm
Ventnor harbour
Seafront at Ventnor
Old Shanklin
Old Shanklin
Benbridge
St Helens harbour
The view from Seaview
Passepartout on Ryde seafront waiting while I had an ice cream
The two rather large blisters that have come up on my hands
Bosham
The top of the Bosham channel
A&E Department St Richard’s Hospital Chichester
CT scanner
Garry in Intensive care
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Garry McGivern is still in St Richard’s Hospital Chichester on Tuesday 24th-July-2018. They got me standing again today, all by upper body strength and not my legs! They also got me to have a go at walking. It was so painful, and they could see it! I couldn’t move my left leg at all! So they gave up, thankfully!
I think it was after that they decided to send me for a CT scan, which never really showed anything up!
CT scanner
After that scan, I was moved to the Emergency floor, which was a lot cooler and also had windows! That last ward had no windows at all and no air!
They’re now on about an MRI scan!
I’m also on nil by mouth from midnight tonight!
Things Are Not Looking Good
I’ve had a temperature on and off since I arrived in A&E at the weekend! Today it was 39°! I’m constantly sweating, the bed in the morning was soaked through! And had to be changed every morning!
Apologies if these posts don’t make a lot of sense! I’m pretty spaced out most times, what with my fever and the extra morphine! They’ve been giving me!
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Garry McGiven Travelsonabike2 is in St-Richard’s Hospital Chichester on Saturday, 24th-July-2018. Fifty hours ago, I was taken by ambulance to the A&E department because of the pain in my hip! I’m still in a lot of pain and will be spending at least one more night here!
A&E Department St Richard’s Hospital Chichester
The good thing that has come of this. Not! I’ve got a rough date for my operation: October at the very earliest!
I wrote the above yesterday. Today, they moved me to a different ward, but only briefly! It’s the Emergency floor! I presume this is an intermediate stop while they decide what ward is best to put me on!
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Garry McGivern Travelsonabike2 is cycle touring in England on Tuesday, 17th-July-2018. Southbourne to Bognor Regis. 18 miles. Seeing as it was the last night of my holiday! I went down to the local pub in Southbourne, “The Travellers Joy,” which is right next to the campsite. As I rode past, I spotted they were doing a “Plat de jour!” Well, seeing as I never made it to France, which was the main aim of this trip, I thought I’d go for that and pretend I was in France! And very nice it was too!
Bosham
While I was packing away this morning the man from the caravan next to me came over for a chat. A pleasant man from Kent, anyway he was asking about cycling and the different places that I’d been, the normal stuff which I’m more than happy to talk about!
After we’d been chatting for a while, he said, “I came over last night to talk to you, the tent door was unzipped but as as I got closer all I could hear was you snoring! And I thought to myself, there’s a contented man, he’s had a hard day’s ride, eaten supper then fallen asleep!”
I replied, no, that was a man that had been down the pub and had a few pints!
Going Home
The ride home was normal and nothing spectacular, although I did go via Bosham for a change!
Once again I’m not too sure whether this will be the last ride before I go into hospital. I was hoping that when I got home, there would be a letter waiting for me, giving me a date to go in. But there wasn’t, and the wait continues!
The two rather large blisters that have come up on my hands
I can’t remember whether or not I’ve mentioned the blisters that have come up on my hands! Whether or not I have or haven’t I’ll go to the doctors tomorrow to get them checked out!
The top of the Bosham channel
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