The body-changers - little miracles of Nature!

Todays blog is all about changing bodies, and we have some pretty scary pics, so if you have a weak constitution - see you at the next posting! However, if you are brave enough - here are three bodies which have changed over time - and they really are interesting.........

First off - my friends Andre and Rich - who are identical twins. Or at least they were, until they started drinking beer....... because while Rich has one beer a month, his twin brother Andre has 18 a day. While they once looked identical, it is now fairly easy to tell them apart!

Regular blog readers will remember the horrific injuries suffered when one of the dogs living here - Dooby, was mauled by what we suspect was a long-tailed mongoose....

It is now almost 3 weeks since that incident - and all she has left is a small red spot - which we are sure will heal eventually...

Isn't Nature remarkable?

Those of you who have read "Sorry for that" will know that an awful lot of surgery takes place in the La Rochelle kitchens - a good percentage of it being invasive surgery - and pretty much all of it being misguided. None of it is key-hole.

Our enthusiasm for attempting complicated medical procedures is almost boundless, and we really do try our best. However, we are a little short of anaesthetics, and while we have at various times tried crushed garlic, powdered cloves and lots of ice, pain is an integral part of most of our operations.

Thus it was when Preacher the maid sliced open her baby finger on a broken glass while doing the washing up - she refused our help, and vowed to do her own wound irrigating (we even know the proper words to use!!) and suturing......

Unfortunately this was one of our least successful operations - in the long term. While Preacher managed to stem the flow of blood initially, her medical procedures must have been somewhat deficient, because infection set it, and she steadfastly refused to seek formal medical help - stating that she now had full faith in the La Rochelle Medical Team. However, because she had left things so long before seeking our professional ministrations, the infection was too deep and set-in for us to do anything.

In the end, there was nothing for it, but for us to sharpen up our largest carving knife - and solve the infection problem once and for all.......

There was an awful lot of weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth at the time, but I am happy to report she is now healed completely!

Have a great day!