After much to-ing and fro-ing, and trips to Dunedin then back to Invercargill, and surgery postponements, it all happened today. My mother-in-law had her big op (heart valve replacement) and is recovering in Dunedin Hospital.
They’d scheduled it for today but then said it would be postponed until next week because of the big norovirus outbreak (nasty bug, projectile emissions from both ends of the body…ick) and the lockdown.
In the end, though, we got a phonecall at 6 o’clock last night to say she’d be off to theatre at 8am so it was all go.
We all moan about the state of our health system but I guess it’s good to know that it does work most of the time.