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Some of you already knew I was scheduled for a total thyroidectomy on 12th January.
It didn’t happen. Starting last weekend, Mother Nature gave this area of the country a flood of biblical proportions. You may have heard about that too. The hospital, 45 miles away, cancelled everything except emergencies. And the highway between here and there was/is (?) cut by floodwaters.
And that’s where the fun started. I have been trying to obtain accurate up-to-date information about re-opening of this highway. One police station told me the road will stay closed for a further seven days, quoting controlled release of water from a nearby major dam for that entire week as the reason. I don’t want to go into the technicalities of that, it’s hard enough for me to understand, and I’m here on the spot, you’d have no hope.
An alternate, much longer route may be open later today or tomorrow. But landslips keep occurring on that road and nothing is guaranteed.
Due to my overall health plus the fact my other half doesn’t drive, I was going to be transported to hospital by a local community service car. But with the road situation the way it is, they’re as isolated as I am. If the hospital gets up and running again in the very near future, which I imagine they’re expecting to do, they’ll be wanting to slot me in, in the sequence in which I was originally rostered. But I probably won’t be able to get there. That means I’ll go to the end of the queue.
Meanwhile I continue to gasp for breath, as the lump on my thyroid gland has squashed my trachea (windpipe) down to about 15% of its normal capacity.
At the moment, valium is keeping me sane.
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