Grumble...

Ugh, 40 minute drive (<15 miles!) to get to outpatient appoinment at minor hospital ('Sittingbourne Memorial') re the pancreatitis/gall bladder thing. I've not actually been to Sittingbourne before, but it's straight up the A2, so I assumed would be a reasonable drive, as the A2 is a major fast road. Not once you get halfway there it isn't. Speed-limits changing every couple of hundred metres, speed cameras everywhere, and it drops down to a narrow, potholed mess. I can't comfortably drive for more than about 20-30 minutes (which is what the journey should have taken), and my neck was Not Happy. When I finally got there the parking is even worse than at the main hospital (which is only 10 minutes from my house and which I pretty much passed on the way) and I eventually had to park on a street half a mile away to find a space and the cold today was enough to make every muscle just Seize. And then the appointment was in and out in 5 minutes, they basically just wanted my signature on the form saying 'Yes, for god's sake yank the sucker out'. Took the motorway back rather than subject myself to the A2 again, pushes the distance up, but a much more comfortable and quicker drive.

Spent the afternoon wearing my collar as a result (and sleeping) and my neck is much happier now.