Surgery tomorrow

Made it to 47 before needing surgery! Not a bad streak. Or at least any that I can remember, have been out patient a few times for minor things.

Currently in hospital waiting for gall bladder removal tomorrow (actually later today, it's about 2am). Should be fairly straightforward, it's a routine surgery. And looks like I shouldn't need to make too many adjustments to my diet.

Shoes!

Well, I'm an idiot. Or at least distracted.

Was getting changed and looked around and couldn't find my shoes. Still down south in temporary accommodation. Keep the door locked by habit, was locked when I got back in. Knew for a fact I had been wearing them this morning.

No sign of them! Not in the wardrobe, not under the bed, not under my bag, not in a drawer. It's a small room, so not many places to hide. Had me completely stumped for a good five minutes.

They were on my feet. I'd already put them on.

Still cold

Ugh, forgot how much the cold sucks.

Can't wait to get back to the warmth up north. Can't even exercise properly without everything hurting. Especially hands and nose due to the cold wind. Give me high heat and high humidity!

And down south again

Back at the old stomping ground and the most obvious thing - it's cold! Don't miss that.

Long day of travel, red eye flight and didn't get any rest due to a plus size on one side taking up a quarter of my seat, a plaguebearer on the other side coughing up a lung and a gang of babies carrying on.

Oh well, shouldn't be here too long, hopefully.

Blown tyre

 Whoops, had the first flat tyre in a long time today.

And it was right proper blown - big chunk out of the sidewall, off the rim and everything. None of this slow leak and looks flat nonsense! Luckily I was already at work when it happened, so was able to change it there instead of on the side of the road.

Even better - the spare worked! Fingers crossed it holds, these are all old tyres with the rubber worn and on the way out. And at $400 a pop (no pun intended) I can't afford to replace the tyres yet. Have another old spare on rim already which I was able to put onto the car so already have an emergency spare - but it has some pretty deep gouges on the tread, so i'm pretty sure it'll work as an emergency spare to get me back to the house and not much more after that.

Fingers crossed!

So tired

 Just need to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

All time, money, energy and effort is going in to getting the new place up to a standard where it can be managed easily. It's getting there, it just takes time. And a lot of effort. Made loads of progress, we've come a long way from where we were the day we moved in. And sorted a lot of the chaos!

But a bit more money would have helped. Could have had all our issues sorted and space for the stuff we have two years ago - if we just had an extra hundred thousand. Or two!

Oh well, just have to work with what we have.

But damn I'm tired....

Amber is alive?!?!

 Holy crap!

My brother's cat, which was already really old went missing. I posted about her back in 2021 when she disappeared after a surgery.

Today we had a call saying she'd been found! Can't believe she managed to survive so long out on her own in the bush. The vet called me as I was still down as an alternate contact, they hadn't been able to get hold of him. Apparently she's in a pretty poor state, fingers crossed.

Edit: my brother went to the vet, and she recognised him. She had multiple organs failing, very under weight and had several injuries. He did the right thing and chose to have her put down. She was a fighter and lived to almost 18 years I think. A very sad end, to have found her again after so many years lost only to have to let her go again. But it was for the best, it would have been a long, hard road to try and get her back to good health with little chance of success. It would have prolonged her suffering for no real gain.

At least when she closed her eyes, she was in the arms of a loved one and not alone in the street or surrounded by strangers.

Heart is heavy with pain and loss. Good bye Amber.