Russ and Colin paid me a visit on Tuesday evening. It was lovely to catch up with both of
them. Despite their adventurous
appetites, we couldn't convince them to try any of Norm's or my dinner (which
was caviar on toast). Later that night
the nurses informed me that they had scheduled me for a minor operation on
Friday which of course caused me to break into tears, as I am a complete wuss
about needles.
Norm and I paid a visit to the QUT testing laboratory at
Banyo on Wednesday to witness the testing to destruction of a new roof profile
we have been looking at. I love to see
things tested to destruction. Perhaps I
shall apply for a position with Myth Busters next year ;-)
We were back at the Hospital by 4 pm. Ev arrived around 5 pm and has generously
loaned/donated her backgammon set to me for the duration of my stay in
Brisbane. As I haven't managed to throw
the dice myself yet, Ev had to roll them for me. I won the game thanks to all the double sixes
she rolled for me, not for her!
My Physio Tiffany had her last day here at SIU on
Thursday and managed to schedule me for hydro-therapy at the last minute, which
was a great start to the day. Tiffany
has been replaced by another physio also named Tiffany. She will have to work hard to keep the Tiffany
standard up! They whisked me off for an
xray of my knee straight after hydro: my knee had been very painful for the
last week or so (unfortunately it still is).
On return they decided to put a canula in for some anti biotics as a
"prophylactic" before surgery on Friday. This precaution, while probably valid, is
nonetheless worrying for a major hospital in a first-world country! All of this meant that I missed OT once
again, thus got to keep my Permobile wheelchair for another few days.
Friday was Nil by mouth and a complete write off due to
the operation. I am fine with
anti-anxiety medicine that ends in 'pam', but not in 'lam': understandable as I
am a pescatarian. Fortunately the nurses
and anaesthetists remembered this.
I had hoped to be able to meet Martin at the Norman Hotel
for a few games of scrabble on Saturday, but we changed the venue to the
hospital as I didn't fancy dragging an IV stand down there with me! Norm headed back to Townsville at 2 pm; he
may have taken part of my brain with him, as Martin flogged me convincingly in
the first two games. Luckily Suzy
arrived for a surprise visit in time to pick out letters for me for the third
game (all the S's, Z, X, Q and K); not only that, she also found me a seven
letter word "crashes" (which I understand is her first bonus word in
scrabble! Thus, with all this help, I
managed to beat Martin in the third game.
I listened enviously to Suzy's vacation details, I expect Machupichu is
out of the question for me for the next few years, the Inca's not being
terribly focussed on wheelchair access.
After Suzy and Martin left, I got the nurses to set up the Kindle for me
and read another 50 chapters of Jack Reacher.
I finally quit at 1:30 a.m. as I was scared I would fall asleep and lose
my place :-)
Val and Sam arrived at lunchtime on Sunday. Sam bought me a pistachio cream apricot
danish at the markets as well as a huge back of cherry tomatoes, so you can
guess what I had for lunch :-) Uncle
Keith and Aunty Di arrived from Perth to catch up with Val and visit me. It is lovely of them to come all that
way. Uncle Keith got roped into being
scrabble hands almost straight away;-)
We had a quiet and enjoyable afternoon on the verandah.
This week to date has been getting back to the routine of
physio and OT, with the exception of an MRI of my knee yesterday. Hopefully this will give some results, as the
Xray certainly hasn't. For some reason
the loud thumping of the MRI machine puts me to sleep - go figger! We all (Val, Keith, Di and I) had pizza for
dinner last night. We had plenty of room
as Joy left yesterday. It was sad to see
her go but also it was happy for her to be going home, even if she had to wait
from noon until after 4 pm for drugs from the Hospital pharmacy.
Karen Sanders rang last night with an invitation for Val
and me to go to the Construction Awards Gala on Friday night. Ky has kindly agreed to express post my
ballgown and shoes to me. Val has said
she is happy to shop for a new outfit and shoes - the theme is high glamour. Of course, Val didn't want to put anyone to
the trouble of going to Magnetic Island to find an existing outfit: I think she
just wants to shop for something new!
Sam also called and is coming in later today (Wednesday) for a game of
scrabble. She also kindly offered to
bring in dinner so Val could have the evening off to take her brother Keith and
sister-in-law Diane out to dinner. Good
timing!
On that note I think this blog is long enough! xxxx
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