Sunday, 5 July, 2015

Well, this blog will be quite boring - not much happened this week and no pictures to add, either.

Dad's course is going really well in Melbourne.  He has been able to understand everything taught to him so far and he did extremely well on his first test this week.  Harry (Dad's boss) and Harry's wife, Dawn, took Dad and Garth (another instructor on the same course as Dad) out to dinner this week to a really nice Italian restaurant.  Harry often does that when he is teaching which is really nice.  Garth left on Friday and Harry and Dawn left yesterday and so Dad has been on his own all weekend - quite boring for him, although he did go to church today which was good.  Niles, the instructor for the next three weeks, will be coming in to Melbourne tonight and Dad will pick him up from the airport.

I rested on Monday and Tuesday as my back was still tender from the incision last week.  Then, on Wednesday, my friend, Denise, drove me to the doctor's to get the second procedure done.  I had to get more needles done this time (and they hurt!) to freeze the area which the doctor had to work on.  Dr. Schnetler is such a great doctor - he is very gentle, understanding, patient and thorough.  It took him a lot longer to perform the procedure than I thought it would, but that was fine with me - I am good with him making sure that he got everything he needed to get out.  He prescribed some painkillers for me (Panadeine - like Tylenol with codeine) and also suggested I get some Nurofen (like Advil).  He told me that this incision would hurt more than the previous one as he had had to go deeper on this incision - he was right!  I took the painkillers for three days and then found that I didn't need them after Saturday morning - I was glad about that, especially since I hate taking medication.

On Friday, I drove to the doctor's office again so that the nurse, Nat, could look at my incision to see how it was looking.  She said it looked good and changed the bandage, too.  I told her that I couldn't see it and she asked me if I would like to, to which I answered 'yes'.  She held up a mirror, but I couldn't see it since the incision is in the middle of my back.  She asked if I had a phone and said she could take a pic with it - I told her that my phone didn't take pics (it's a 'dinosaur' phone :-)

I, like Dad, have been bored all on my own - I have been mostly just watching tv, reading and piddling on the computer.  Dad and I can't wait until Wednesday when we will be together again. :-)