At the moment I am feeling rather tired as I am looking after my grandson. His mother has had an operation on her knee to correct a problem with a ligament which caused her knee to dislocate from time to time.

It would have been done earlier, but when she went for a scan which would have been the start of the process a routine pregnancy test came back positive, 1 to 2 weeks.

Being in the UK all re ante natal, birth and post natal medical needs were provided automatically.

The local clinic has monitored the baby's progress from birth, and he was called in for all the innoculations he needs.

Now that young Jake is 6 months old she has had the surgery on the worst knee, spent four days in hospital, but she was so eager to get home that she did not wait for the hospital transport to get home, so my son went to collect her. He had had to collect all the equipment that she would need to help her at home on his previous visits, so everything was ready for her well in advance.

Naturally it is all supplied free of charge.

I feel I should do my bit and look after Jake rather than calling on the services of the child care people who would assist in these circumstances, though he is rather a handfull.

Perhaps when the other knee is operated on in 6 months time and Jake is a one year old I might have to, but I feel that we get so much from our health service I am almost embarassed by it.

We see so much on TV about the problems of health care in the US, in hospital and other dramas where the problems compose almost the entire plot, I really do wonder what is so good about your present system.

Anne Croucher