Play it again

 Play it again July 2025 This new blog is being launched with new hope and resolve. Having lived the past twelve months under the shadow of hospital tests I have decided to take a break from the medical world and to take my chances. Reviewing my medical expenses shows that on average once a week for the past fifty I have been attending a doctor, a nurse. a specialist for a review, for assessment, for surgery. And all the while feeling that what will kill me is as yet undiagnosed. My ambition is to live a decade more and to see as few doctors as I can. They have served me well over the past 74 years. Now is the time to give them and myself a break. I am at peace with my decision and will have to persuade my family likewise. So the most recent blog (Last Impressions) which focused too often on dying  is being succeeded by a blog a that focuses on living and loving people and the arts, poetry, literature, paintings. music, history, the cosmos, nature and in particular Ireland....