Another change of plan

Thank you Mum & Dad, Sheila, Pete, Bea and all for your e-mails. Good to know that as isolated as I am in this place, at least there’s some chatty news coming in from civilisation.

The latest here is that I’m now being lined up to be shifted to another private clinic, this time in the city of Zurich. The advantage of that is that I’ll be able to have the dressings replaced and the artificial nourishment dispensed while I’m stationary. Since it appears that the second round of chemotherapy, the PET CT and the other tests are likely to be handled on an out-patients’ basis, it will be easier to get to and from the hospital from a city-based clinic than it would be from here or from home. The downside is that the University Hospital thinks I am going home from here, and whenever they make a date for me, they always inform me by post to my home address. Somehow, I have to get the message to the oncology and surgery departments that they must tell me by phone when they want me to be anywhere because I obviously can’t collect my post.

All highly complicated, and I really didn’t expect any of this additional complication. I thought it was a matter of fact that I would be transported directly back from here to the hospital. At least then, they wouldn’t have been able to forget me. As it is, this whole story could mean that that the chemo and all the rest of it will be delayed until they feel they’ve got a free slot for me as an out-patient.

There are other annoyances. I am practically out of clean clothes – everything has been stained this past month. And I badly need a haircut...!!! Nothing I can do about either problem until I am out of Mammern. The laundry service takes up to a week and I don’t have that much time left. Oh well, no doubt it will all sort itself out in the end.