So what do you do when your doctor tells you she needs a further blood test to check your liver function, and that you should stop drinking alcohol for a while so that the results can be confirmed?
This coming the week before a 2 week holiday to the Western Cape wine region of South Africa!
I did what any sensible person would do, and decided to carry on as normal and postpone the blood test until such a time as I could fit in a week without booze.
The holiday started of fairly weel, and I was looking forward to eating pretty sensibly – lots of fish, a little red meat and very little processed food. We were looking forward to daily swims in the pool at the villa and lots of getting out and about and walking as much as possible.
As it was, my wife was set-upon by the other woman in our party of 4 and ended up in tears at a restaurant table in Franschoech! Having been told the next morning that we were ruining their anniversary holiday, we bailed out of South Africa, changed the flights and were back home a week early. What a disaster!
The problem with the diet now was that we had no food in the house, I wasn’t due back at work for another week and we were both pretty down about everything. I’m not saying that we drank more wine than usual, but we didn’t cut back as much as my doctor would have liked…
The moral af the tail?
You can never really be sure how anyone is going to react to a situation, even if they are supposed to be a ‘friend’. We will almost certainly be returning to South Africa, and very certainly on our own..