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MUSICAL CHAIRS? The last issue of the newsletter had a piece by Jane Walton
and a photo of a building called Pentre House. I phoned Jane as I was puzzled; our
house is called Pentre House but it isn’t the one in the picture.
Jane explained that various houses have changed their names over the years,
including the one pictured, which more recently belonged to the Anton Stevens
(hope I’ve spelled their name correctly. Jane’s own house has had at least three
names and so, probably have others.
Our house was originally built as the vicarage but
it seems the vicar didn’t like it (probably too cold
and old fashioned) and, instead, had another
house built across the road. This new house is
now called The Old Vicarage, and looks Georgian,
but is actually almost the same age as our own.
And, while on that subject, our house is pictured
in one of a set of postcards of local places of
interest, but is labelled as ‘Tudorbethan’! It is,
of course, Victorian Gothic, so someone made a
strange mistake.
Given all the chopping and changing of house The ‘real’ Pentre House
names in our village, maybe someone would be
interested in researching the topic further. I’m
not sufficiently interested to do so, but it may
be a nice project for someone who likes history
– or even the children at Leighton school.
And here’s a photo of the ‘real’ Pentre House....
Carol Harris
DIARY of a STOKE VICTIM Part 2
FOUR GOOD THINGS ABOUT THE PRH IN-PATIENT EXPERIENCE
Brilliant free wi-fi. Gone are the petty Great food – a huge improvement on a brief
restrictions on mobile phones. Had a flawless earlier experience of NHS catering. Lunch
40 minute WhatsApp phone call to California was a delicious lamb and vegetable pie –
and watched films on Netflix and iPlayer good chunks of meat in a nice crusty pie.
The physio and occupational therapists - the When you finally manage to escape,
most helpful and informative of all there are free phone calls to
encounters. Arranged a home visit follow-up local taxi services to make
from Welshpool hospital good your getaway.
Readers of lasts month’s installment The Impossible Eyesight Test
will have guessed I was pretty much My Varilux glasses have a blend of 16 focal
back to normal before I got past the lengths. They give perfect sharp vision at all
triage gate keepers and into the stroke distances from seeing my fingerprints to tiny
clinic. Once into the system the follow twigs on a distant tree. However it only works
up monitoring and tests seem pretty if you are looking straight on. Opticians say
good. However the physiotherapists move your head, not your eyes. Reflected light from objects at the
were concerned about one particular side spreads in all directions so eyes looking to the side with these specs
eyesight test—follow a moving finger see a blurred image as it is repeated through several different focal
up, down, left, right by moving eyes lengths. Taking the glasses off helps a bit but after 25 years of wearing
only, not the head. them, I’d have to rewire my brain to pass this test properly.
After an overnight stay, I got on with editing the February newsletter—a good test for vision and hand/eye coordination.
A couple of days later we got Russell George’s email about a new emergency room at Shrewsbury so soon only planned
procedures will booked into PRH. Hopefully an end to finding your own transport in an emergency for the onerous
60 mile round trip (even worse for patients travelling from Newtown) to Telford. DH
MUSICAL CHAIRS? The last issue of the newsletter had a piece by Jane Walton
and a photo of a building called Pentre House. I phoned Jane as I was puzzled; our
house is called Pentre House but it isn’t the one in the picture.
Jane explained that various houses have changed their names over the years,
including the one pictured, which more recently belonged to the Anton Stevens
(hope I’ve spelled their name correctly. Jane’s own house has had at least three
names and so, probably have others.
Our house was originally built as the vicarage but
it seems the vicar didn’t like it (probably too cold
and old fashioned) and, instead, had another
house built across the road. This new house is
now called The Old Vicarage, and looks Georgian,
but is actually almost the same age as our own.
And, while on that subject, our house is pictured
in one of a set of postcards of local places of
interest, but is labelled as ‘Tudorbethan’! It is,
of course, Victorian Gothic, so someone made a
strange mistake.
Given all the chopping and changing of house The ‘real’ Pentre House
names in our village, maybe someone would be
interested in researching the topic further. I’m
not sufficiently interested to do so, but it may
be a nice project for someone who likes history
– or even the children at Leighton school.
And here’s a photo of the ‘real’ Pentre House....
Carol Harris
DIARY of a STOKE VICTIM Part 2
FOUR GOOD THINGS ABOUT THE PRH IN-PATIENT EXPERIENCE
Brilliant free wi-fi. Gone are the petty Great food – a huge improvement on a brief
restrictions on mobile phones. Had a flawless earlier experience of NHS catering. Lunch
40 minute WhatsApp phone call to California was a delicious lamb and vegetable pie –
and watched films on Netflix and iPlayer good chunks of meat in a nice crusty pie.
The physio and occupational therapists - the When you finally manage to escape,
most helpful and informative of all there are free phone calls to
encounters. Arranged a home visit follow-up local taxi services to make
from Welshpool hospital good your getaway.
Readers of lasts month’s installment The Impossible Eyesight Test
will have guessed I was pretty much My Varilux glasses have a blend of 16 focal
back to normal before I got past the lengths. They give perfect sharp vision at all
triage gate keepers and into the stroke distances from seeing my fingerprints to tiny
clinic. Once into the system the follow twigs on a distant tree. However it only works
up monitoring and tests seem pretty if you are looking straight on. Opticians say
good. However the physiotherapists move your head, not your eyes. Reflected light from objects at the
were concerned about one particular side spreads in all directions so eyes looking to the side with these specs
eyesight test—follow a moving finger see a blurred image as it is repeated through several different focal
up, down, left, right by moving eyes lengths. Taking the glasses off helps a bit but after 25 years of wearing
only, not the head. them, I’d have to rewire my brain to pass this test properly.
After an overnight stay, I got on with editing the February newsletter—a good test for vision and hand/eye coordination.
A couple of days later we got Russell George’s email about a new emergency room at Shrewsbury so soon only planned
procedures will booked into PRH. Hopefully an end to finding your own transport in an emergency for the onerous
60 mile round trip (even worse for patients travelling from Newtown) to Telford. DH
