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A traumatic experience ...

 On Sunday 14th November I woke up feeling 'not very well' and we called for an ambulance.

The video, if it works, will tell you briefly what happened.  It was a dedication for me from our son Mark on the Jo Whiley show Radio 2 just before 8pm on Tuesday 23rd as I was being discharged from hospital.

I expect this news will be as unexpected to you as it was for me and my family.

I arrived at the Royal Stoke University Hospital at about 8am and within half an hour went into cardiac arrest.  After CPR that obviously saved my life it was discovered that I'd had a pulmonary embolism to both lungs.  The blood clots needed to be gone.  Two choices - a: a very powerful, potent clot busting drug that I may not survive or b: leave it and see what happens.  The risks of not having the drugs far outweighed those of having the treatment.

With George and our two children we discussed the options and realised there really wasn't one - option 'a' it had to be.  The process took two hours.  I just shut my eyes and let it all happen while my family was at my bedside.

I have been told by several professionals that not many people survive this treatment after cardiac arrest.

I am one very lucky lady - so glad to be alive.

I've been home now for nearly 3 days and my breathing is getting back to normal slowly and my strength starting to return.

What have I learnt from this?

Live the best life that you can, you never know what's around the corner.

Make sure that those who you love know that you love them.

This sort of thing can happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

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Discovering and rediscovering Lincoln

 The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) is a world-class facility to serve as a point for recognition, remembrance and reconciliation for Bomber Command. Providing the most comprehensive record of the Command in the world, the IBCC ensures that generations to come can learn of their vital role in protecting the freedom we enjoy today.

It was a bitterly cold day with dashes of rain mixed in when we visited Bomber Command Centre and I have to admit that we didn't  brave the elements to walk around the site, so we had lunch in the cafe, took these photos through the window and found our way back to the car.  Another visit will be needed in the future.

We next drove to Bracebridge where we went to live after the flat in Monks Road (see previous post).  

We lived in this lovely terraced house in Elder Street until approximately June 1970 during which George broke his leg playing football and I had our daughter in Lincoln Maternity Hospital.

River Trent at Torksey ...

Torksey Lock from the Trent ...

with the now decommissioned Cottom Power Station in the near distance

Taken from Torksey Lock landing towards the lock ...

and down the lock cut to the mighty Trent ...

where the information board shows Gainsborough and West Stockwith to the right  and Cromwell Lock to our left

In the far distance I can see Torksey Viaduct, a rare example apparently of a tubular box bridge build over 150 years ago and closed in 1959.  In 2016 it was opened as a walking route.

Torksey Lock cut entrance/exit and information board showing facilities at the lock.

We walked a short distance along the Trent towards Cromwell Lock and then turned off the pathway ... it was time to head home.

And since we've been home ...

We had our flu jabs on Saturday and our Covid boosters this morning.

Yesterday (Sunday) these pigeons were sitting on the stock fencing below our garden ...

I wonder what that was all about!

A wonderful rainbow this morning

Thank you Sandra and Ian for being wonderful hosts over the last few days and ferrying us around to see the sites.  See you both again soon.

For old time's sake ... and for Val ...

George and I were 20 years old in 1969 and very newly married when we first moved to Lincoln so looking for familiar landmarks was the order of the day.  Barclays Bank was still where it was when I worked there but the cinema over the road was now a fashion shop.  There was not much else in the centre that came back to me.  It is now very much a University City and so much has changed over the past 50+ years.

Of course there was a particular walk that we needed to do ...

Approaching the medieval meeting place known as Lincoln Guildhall and Stonebow ...

to Steep Hill ... which starts off not too steep ...

where we come to The Jews House, one of the earliest existing town houses in England.  

 

The adjoining house is Jews Court now the Headquarters of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. 

And Steep Hill gets steeper ... 

what a wonderful street!

Looking back down Steep Hill ... 

at Christ's Hospital Terrace, about the halfway point ...

from where we can see people on the turret of Lincoln Castle and more amazing buildings in the side streets.

Continuing our walk up the hill lined with lovely little independent shops.

Nearly at the top ...

Wow! what a varied selection of building styles and ages here on the square ...

where to our left is the castle ...

and on our right the archway to Lincoln Cathedral ...

Steep Hill continues ahead of us but this is our limit today

We pass through the arch and look back to the square ...

and up high at the Cathedral

Time is short for us today and even the consessionary cost of £7.20 was a bit steep for quick visit ... next visit then.   

We did though just pop our heads in ...

and take these two photos.

As newly marrieds moving from Stoke-on-Trent to Lincoln we needed somewhere to live of course.  George had found us a flat to move into in Monks Road.  Could we find it?  Was it even still in existence? I really did not think that it would be.

But here it is!  We lived on the first floor and apart from the windows not much had changed since 1969.

The entrance was up these steps ...  

and our toilet was at the bottom of the steps in this little outhouse!

The bath was in the kitchen covered up with a large worktop which we leaned against the back door when we used the bath!  I wondered if the situation inside is still the same as it was all those years ago.

We lived here for about 6 months when we moved to Bracebridge ... we may go to find that house too, but not today. 

Sight seeing over for today we returned to the bottom of Steep Hill ...

and the Fossdyke Canal ...

over which is High Bridge and the Glory Hole.

The bridge is the oldest in Britain that still has houses built on it.