I'm back. sorry for the absence but I have been a poorly boy. I went into hospital with severe pains in the bowel, which for a person with Hirschsprung's (www.hirschsprungs.info) can be serious. On my first day in, they discovered that I also had pneumonia. I escaped a operation on my bowel by a whisker, they had transferred me to the larger hospital in Inverness, a very bumpy 2.5 hour journey in a blue light ambulance. Took the dogs heir first walk out for the first time today, only 5 minutes but felt good. So I thought why not write this.