A good crisp frost last night. Excellent. Now it is doubtful the grass will need another cut this year. Leaves are hanging on grimly to the trees, but they will not survive the first proper gales of autumn. The sky has been an uninterrupted blue all day, but the forecast says it will rain heavily overnight. Who knows? They could even be right.
In surgery, a number of people have shown up with typical cold symptoms, added to which is a brief period of alternating constipation and diarrhoea. These are precisely the symptoms I had with my recent cold, so I presume this is the "virus of the season" We will see hundreds of similar cases before the winter is out.
Alternating constipation and diarrhoea, if extended over a period of weeks or months, is extremely suspicious of bowel cancer: a good thing the patients don't know this or they'd ALL be in...
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