#2373 Saturday 3rd May

I will probably stay with the current surgeon ..... the cheaper options would involve a significant delay in treatment.

 

On Fridays, Kaylia goes to Workpower in Malaga.  While there she usually works at one of the Op Shop centres .... and this week she was accepted at the Salvos for future work.  This is good progress.

While in Malaga I have to drive past the rear of Bunnings and they often have very nice stuff in their discard bin.  Yesterday I scored a full sheet (900x2400mm) of 16mm MDF board! This is $50 off the shelf.  The discard is dirty but undamaged ..... so I'm chuffed.  I'm planning to build a slide-in kitchen drawer for the back of the Landrover.  ...... sort of like this.

#2372 Friday 2nd May

Good can come from misfortune!  If I hadn't had the fall and broken 3 ribs a year ago, I wouldn't have had the UTI .... which then led to the cancer being found!  The cancer would then have continued to grow and then spread.  I'm very fortunate.

This is Kaylia at her Thursday dance session..... 

#2371 Thursday 1st May

 I am booked in for surgery on the 6th June.  It will be 3 days in Hollywood Hospital.

Post script:

I'm in turmoil.... I've received the paperwork from the surgeon.... and the amount being charged is much more than the scheduled fee that is covered by HBF and in our current financial state I just can't afford to proceed. I don't know what to do now.  I think I will have shop around for a surgeon who charges the schedule fee for the operation. 

The following is astounding  ..... especially in the context of the bigotry in our world.

#2370 Tuesday 29th April

 Uh ...oh ... I must have dozed off! It's a while since the last post (Boom Boom .... April 25th Anzac Day has just been .... bugles sounding "Last Post")  In the meantime, we've been down to Busselton for Easter.  Kaylia loved the trip ... as usual!  She travels perfectly in the car .... she listens to music the whole time .... she watches the world passing by but if Naomi or I mention her in conversation, she immediately tunes in to see what we are saying.

Today I visit the urologist to find out the result of the biopsy .... will I be having a hospital visit?

Later ... back from the consult.  The kidney is cancerous and has to come out.  It doesn't seem to have spread.  Surgery in the coming month.