Cross your fingers for me!

My da is in hospital to be fitted with a pacemaker either today or tomorrow. He's had an irregular heartbeat for years, but because he's as fit as a Malley bull he's never needed one - he's signed up for the Australian Masters Games in two weeks, and he's in ten running events. Ten!!! One of them is on his birthday, when he turns 70! He looks a lot younger, I can tell you!

So, cross your fingers for me and hope that my mother doesn't smother him with a pillow as he tries to bribe the specialist into letting him compete in the Games after all! Oh Barry...