Knees Up

 oe was off work today, so that meant we had a leisurely start. We nipped around to collect Ellie for school.  She was not her usual chirpy self, and by the time we were ready to leave, she burst into tears. She knew Zoe was due at the hospital for her knee procedure, and she was worried. We calmed her down, and by the time we got to school, she was calm and, whilst not chirpy, was at least ready for the day.

There had been some debate over whether Di was going to Pilates. The issue was that she was having some meds delivered. They phoned at nine and said they would be with us between eleven and twelve. That quashed any hopes for Pilates, as I would be at the Nuffield with Zoe. We adjusted the day's schedule and sat down for a quiet coffee.

I collected Zoe and took her to the hospital. We had to wait for a little while, but she was soon called through to radiology. There, they used ultrasound to guide the procedure. The cyst was aspirated, and steroids were injected into the site. Fifteen minutes later, she walked out (on crutches) and declared, "That's it. Let's go home." She chatted to Diane on the phone the whole way home, and I helped to get her settled.

Back home, Di's meds had arrived, so we had a gap in the schedule until we had to collect Ellie. I used the time to return to a problem I had been having with the new network monitor I had installed. It took about an hour, but I finally got to the bottom of the issue, and the monitor seems to be running well now.

We had some Kindle time, and I finished another book, then we went to collect Ellie from football. We took her to her friend, Poppy's, where she will be staying overnight, going straight to school from there in the morning. (We did leave Poppy's mum our phone numbers in case Ellie had a wobble, in which case she could come back here.