Back to the Warfarin Clinic today where they took, as ever, copious amounts of blood.. so now add warfarin to beta-blockers and anti-depressants and I'll soon be needing one of these wee plastic things to remind me what pills to take when.

Now looking forward to cardioversion and the possibility of at least getting shot of the rat poison after a couple of months.

I took at least some comfort in the fact that the lassies in the anti-coagulant clinic are good looking and have a tremendous sense of humour! I'm told today that this is yet another service being taken away from out local community hospital, (Vale of Leven), and we'll be checked now by nurses from Glasgow. The world is going mad!