Friday August 20th 2010
So here's the full low-down on my day in hospital. It's a bit endless, but it's meant to give those who come after the full monte - I'm not forcing you to read it, lol.
I wasn't particularly nervous about going in - I was just so desperate to get the procedure done, I seemed to have been waiting for ever, and I felt, rightly or wrongly, that the delays might be exposing me to unnecessary…
Surgery this Friday, so I've taken a few days off to do some DIY which I suspect will be a bit less possible after Mr Peach has chewed a hole in my leg, and extracted one of my lymph-nodes! For post-op I am storing up films on the hard-disk recorder, and laying in a massive store of biscuits. I've fixed the new extractor-fan and kitchen blind, so as it's a lovely day outside I'm going to put on the SPF zillion…
At last I have written confirmation for Aug 20th - Wide Excision and SLNB. It's been a long time coming, and until I actual got the call - even though I'd been told I was listed, I was still nervous. But just to play with my mind a tiny bit more, the letter says "report at 7:30 a.m. - ring before leaving to make sure there is a bed". Well, all I can say is, there'd better be. I know it's a pro-forma letter, but do they…
Yes, wading through Limbo is truly energy-sapping, bit like being up to your shins in Grimpen Mire. I know there are people on this site who have spent much longer in Limbo than me, and my admiration knows no bounds. Keep wading folks!
Anyway, I spoke to Michelle, the surgeon's secretary again this a.m., and put the screws on a bit more than usual. (I am polite, but can be stern ). Anyway she is a lovely person, and…
On the 16th of July (regular readers will recall) my surgeon's secretary (I call him "my" - I've never met him, and the way things seem to be working I never will) told me that due to various exigencies, happenings, planetary occlusions, acts of God, thermal gradients, and a lack of tomato sauce, I should assume I would get "seen to" (not in the tom-cat sense) on August 9th. This was just her guess really, I mean I heard…
