Getting ready for my Op...

So yesterday I had a phone call from Dr Lykoudis's assistant to tell me that I needed to go and have my pre-operation checks and then go and see Dr Lykoudis on Saturday who would then reveal all regarding my poorly shoulder.  The checks were blood tests, a chest x-ray and an ECG all of which could be carried out at our local Evangelismos clinic in Polis so John and I were up early and down to make sure I got them done or was booked into the system to get them done.  

I went straight in handed over 40 euros to cover everything and was shepherded into the front room to have the bloods taken.  Bloody hell it was like a scene from Hancock's Half Hour - I think she filled about 6 vials and I exited with an empty arm.  Next I went for my chest X-ray where I struggled to get the right parts of my anatomy onto the upright plate as I am not very tall.  She asked me to breathe in and hold the pose and then it was done, results will be uploaded to my medical records later today so I could have a look but I am not sure I will know what I am looking at/for.  Finally the ECG - all dignity out of the windows because the chappie does the ECGs.  Anyway within about 15 minutes I was all done and dusted and have to go on Saturday at 9.00am to see Dr Lykoudis.

Back at home we had a quiet day particularly because my sciatica is still with me but now accompanied by earache for some inexplicable reason.

I had a clean and tidy of the fridges - we had the best part of a large bottle of full fat milk that was way past its sell by date.  We don't normally by full fat milk but I was short of some for a recipe the other day and John went into the village and could only get a large one.

I decided to make some cheese - it is quick and easy in the microwave and you end up with a sort of feta - it is just a bit of a faff and a bit messy if you don't hang the dripping cheese bag directly over a jug!

John isn't overly impressed by the end results but I will eat it.  We had been to Paps quickly after going to the Doctors this morning and I decided to go back to drinking Kefir - John suggested I should drink the whey that was being squeezed out of the cheese - I know you can use it in smoothies but mmmm it wasn't really floating my boat!!!  I am probably missing out on a real trick but there are limits. 

Our supper this evening was steak from Shuks.  The last time I bought some there was a small piece of fillet shouting at me so I answered its call.  I didn't ask Shuk to clean up the piece as I like to do that myself and it rewarded us with two rather large fillet steaks.

We had these with salad and onion rings and some leftover roastie potatoes which I recooked.  I even found a bit of steak sauce and mixed that with the jus I had made to go with the lamb fillet the other day.  

The steaks were absolutely melt in the mouth - so good that I didn't stop to take a photograph of the finished article.  They were cooked to perfection with just the right amount of pink.  The whole piece had cost me about 11 euros so those two magnificent pieces of meat worked out to around 5.5 euros a piece and when you think they charge anything between 20 euros and 30 euros for steak out!!!

We had a relatively early night.  John is up early in the morning to go on a bike ride and I am down to take Mum shopping and I have a few things I want to do before I get to hers.