Last post for a while

I'm getting ready to go into the hospital now--gathering clothes and pyjamas etc., plus (most important) books to read while I'm laid up. I'm due in the hospital at 2.30; the operation is sometime tomorrow. The physiotherapist said they'll discharge me when I can walk down the main hospital corridor unaided--which hopefully will take around a week or so. (Maybe a little longer.) Until then, I'll be electronically incommunicado.