On Tuesday, I had another appointment with my doctor to get another excision of a sunspot (freckle) that he was concerned about - it looked a little funny under the magnifier he uses when doing a skin check. This time, for some reason, I was even more anxious about the needle and tears began welling up in my eyes when I was called by the nurse into the surgery. Fortunately, for me, both my doctor and the nurse are very understanding about my fear and calmed me down. The excision itself went fine and I got the results on Friday when I went back to the doctor for a check on the incision. The results were good news - yay! I can take off the waterproof bandage tomorrow and then I go back to him in two weeks for him to take out the stitches.
On Thursday, we drove to Brisbane with Thea. Dad had a meeting at work in Brisbane, I was meeting up with Dad's boss's wife, Dawn, and Thea was meeting up with her daughter. Dad's meeting was long, but was very informative. It was led by the quality manager of QAC who is a really on-the-ball kind of person and is trying to works out the kinks in the operation of the company. They provided lunch for those in attendance which dad enjoyed.
Dawn and her daughter, Kathryn, came to the QAC office to meet up with me. Dawn and I get along really well and so I asked her if she wanted to come in and hang out with me and have lunch. Dawn doesn't drive and I don't like to drive in Brisbane, so Kathryn was our driver for the day. We went to a quirky area of town called 'West End' and ate at a restaurant there which Dawn had been to previously. There wasn't a lot on the menu that sounded good to me, so I just chose a hamburger. Dawn was the one who turned me on to iced chocolates and so, when I saw it on the menu, I just had to order one. The waitress told me that they had no whipped cream and was that okay - I declined - I mean, what is an iced chocolate without whipped cream. :-) Dawn and I had a great time catching up and it was nice to meet Kathryn and to get to know her a little. She has travelled a lot around the world (she has been to 73 countries) and so it was interesting to hear about her journeys.
On Friday night, our friends, Faye and Bill (Bill is an instructor with QAC) came to dinner. Since both Bill and Dad teach so much, we are seldom in town at the same time. So, when we are, we meet up at either our house or their place (which is about half an hour from us). We had a lovely dinner and enjoyed chatting with them and catching up with what we have all been doing since we last got together about six months ago. Bill is retiring soon and so he won't be doing as much teaching, if any, for QAC, which means that we should be able to get together with them more often.
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