Just back from my pre-op assessment. Just to be awkward, I slept in until 8.40 (up at 3 am for about an hour and then back to sleep) and had 20 minutes to get washed, dressed and out of the door. Made it but had no drink or food or time to take pills.
Anyway, all is reasonable, apart from the fact that my lungs are those of a 90 year old! I knew there was an issue with my lungs (post covid?) but there's nothing to be seen on scans. However, there obviously is something. It's not going to stop the surgery going ahead though, so that's OK.
The surgery is pencilled in for 10th February so there's no hanging around. It will be a 3 day affair - ferry and car on day 1, surgery on day 2 (discharged same day) and car and ferry back on day 3. It took 3 nurses and an anaesthetist 3/4 hour to get blood out of me. That's not unusual for me.
While in the car, I checked the handles to open the doors and realised they are too far forward to make us look backwards before opening the doors. In fact, the one on the driver's side is hidden by the steering wheel. I'm afraid the dutch way won't work with the Scenic because we have to lean too far forward to be able to check behind. Lucky it is, after all, advisory.
I mentioned to my brother (who has been driving for more than 60 years) about DIL's encounter with the policeman. He had 3 points to add - 1. the windscreen washer fault is not one which brings down points on a license any more than opening the door wrongly is 2. getting points on a license involves a court hearing, because the driver has to be given a chance to defend themselves, 3. on the spot fines can only be given for a speeding offense, not for a failure to have everything in working order. So we have to wonder what that particular police officer was thinking of. Maybe he was just bored.