A trip to Limassol

It was a very cold start for us this morning - a heady 5 degrees when we left Droushia to go down to Emba and pick up Mum and Dad.  Dad was going to a specialist eye hospital in Limassol to investigate the pressure and cataract problem that he has on his good eye.  Some years ago he had a cataract removed from his other eye and it was unsuccessful because, as we have now learned,  his heart attack caused damage to the optic nerve and he should have been warned at the time that the removal of the cataract may not have resulted in improved sight.

We made good time to Limassol and found the Pantheo Clinic easily.  I had been there before with Mum when we took Frank their - in fact that was the day that John first met Charlie in the cage up at Sean and Sharon's when Irene had rescued him from Latchi so that must have been over four years ago.  Anyway it is on the same street as George's famous material shop so if anyone wants directions to there I can give them to you!!!  We were early so we carried on to the little Debenhams which is about 5 minutes away for a coffee before Dad's appointment.

John was relieved that we didn't have time to investigate the blue cross sale that was on in the shop - to be fair it isn't like we need anything and we are trying to be good at the moment because we have several things we want to do to the house which will be using any extra cash we might have.  Anyway it was all excitement in the coffee shop as some poor man had taken a funny turn and was surrounded by people including a fully stethoscoped up Doctor and then the para medics arrived to take him away.  Poor Dad, not sure that was what he wanted to witness before going into a hospital!!!

The clinic was heaving with people but was very professional and they saw Dad quickly and he went through a whole load of tests before being told that he would be having his cataract removed on March 20th and that with any luck the pressure issue was only being caused by the cataract and not early onset glaucoma which is great news.  They were also the ones which explained why the previous operation was unsuccessful.  We were all much more confident about the approach taken this time and if all goes well Dad may well no longer need to wear glasses which would be amazing.  Fingers crossed!!!

We returned home having dropped Mum and Dad off - when we got up this morning Boo was limping badly and we found that he had an injury to his front paw.  He squealed like mad when John picked him up and I did manage to get some gel on the wound but we know there are a couple of unneutered males trying to assert their authority in the neighbourhood so we needed to check he was ok and didn't need to go to the vets for a jab.

We are still on the lookout for a holiday villa for Janice, Mick and the kids and they had a list of one or two that we decided we would go and find.  One we thought we recognised in Inea - John thought it was next door to our friends Gregory and Eleni and he was right!!!

We had a quick look around but were a bit concerned about how overlooked you could be from the big white house behind.  We then went next door to see if Gregory and Eleni were in which they were so we were invited for tea and cake!!!  They were kind enough to ring a friend of theirs in the village who has a different place to rent but sadly it wasn't available.  We have seen worse places, the one John shot down to see in Kritou Terra was dreadful - there is all sorts of creative photography going on.  The villas themselves might be ok but some are in dreadful places and you can't change the surroundings.  We are still looking but think there may be something promising in Latchi!