Chapter 144 - Not the News We Wanted

At the doctor's surgery for an early appointment at 8:45am to have the stitches out of her leg and back where dark blemishes were removed two weeks ago. I sat outside the room reading a P.D. James novel until the nurse came out to ask me inside. The nurses were still removing the stitches, the surgeon watching on. He told me that the pathology report indicated melanoma in the piece removed from her leg, that from her back was OK. Unfortunately, it is recommended that further surgery remove an additional half a cm from around the wound. That will require a skin graft, so the surgeon suggests about 4 days in the local hospital, as soon as possible. He filled in a hospital admission form in which we completed personal details outside in our vehicle before taking it to the hospital on our way down to Hot Air City for my appointment with the eye specialist. He estimates my eyesight in my left eye has deteriorated by 30% since he first saw me, recommends a macular pucker operation (you don't want to know what that entails). He seemed to want to do the job as quickly as possible but when I mentioned her problems he decided that he should see me within two months to check deterioration. So one could say a shit of a day. And to hell with it. Tomorrow we catch the train down to Home Town for my high school reunion.

I am wondering about a cut-off date when I should cancel the cruise around the Long White Cloud. That may lose us some money. Who cares about that little bit, when those idiots in Yank Land are trying their hardest with their Free Market Recession to destroy the lot of us. Did you know that their so-called "law makers" were having a 2 day holiday on Tuesday and Wednesday to celebrate the Jewish New Year rather than deal with the crisis? Unbelievable!! And I thought that lot prided themselves on being the world's bastion of mis-guided Christianity. I would start a conspiracy theory that the economic crisis is due to terrorist manipulation of the market but no one would believe me because the manipulators in that country a just so selfishly stupid that they don't need help to do the job for themselves.

Having said that, I feel better.

I wonder whether I used any key words that will be of interest to the big library in the sky?