I'm back, following a couple of doses in hospital - a TIA followed by a CVA - in effect, a veritable brace of TLAs.
Fortunately the problem has now been diagnosed and sorted, but the resulting dysphasia was very scary. I knew where I was, but speaking resulted in all the wrong sounds - like Klingon (no change there, some will say
). Eventually this came back, followed by writing, then typing. Still takes a bit of thought to compose sentences, so maybe posts will not be quite as frequent, and I will be even more of a pedantic git due to my precious language being hard-won. 