Rare complete Beckley family gathering for baptism of William at Matilda’s and Chris’s

Another Uncle back in UK. Here with Jacob and Tom at William’s baptism…coming up in the next post

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Entries are getting a bit out of chronological order, we had visit to Harlow A&E on Wed 8th as Alice had a heart rate of over 200. She had experienced palpitations over the last few weeks and high rate but this was extended so we went to A&E. rather worrying that we soon had two cardiac consultants in attendance, but they did bring down the rate eventually after using a drug that they said would make you feel like “it is the end of the world”….Alice confirmed that.

Spent a night in hospital in Cardiac Care Unit, with aged heart troubled patients, all night gurgling, beeping and occasional vomiting didn’t make for a good nights sleep.

After echo cardiogram the consultant has told us that Alice has atrial flutter (AF) so would require a minor op post birth.

Back home on Thursday. Alice is now on beta-blockers until Sid appears. This has got Alice down as everything was going so well, but dealing with one thing at a time.

Just realised that this blog is the wrong name….should be olddadabolg | Dad over 56!

Had a great day, grand selection of All Saints clothes from Alice and cards from all children plus communication which is always a bonus.

Most of a bottle of champagne in the afternoon watching Wimbledon. We had tickets but couldn’t go because of AF (more to follow).

Dinner at Catherine Wheel, too much red wine and consequent hangover. Not sure whether it is age, quantity drunk or low regular intake but hangovers seem to happen at from a lower input.

George is over from New Zealand.

Alice, George and Henry

Run Stortford 10 miler on Sunday 5th. Really pleased with the time 1h22m….so quick in fact that Alice missed me coming in expecting minimum of 1h30m. Should know better than to underestimate a running bear!