We got some paintings in the mail from Estelle but in our hospital wanderings we must have misplaced them until now. In any case I am repaying the art work with a drawing for her to colour in. The correct colour scheme is below but somehow I thing a different set of colours might get used. This came from the Book of Bs where every word in the story starts with a B, including Bam Boom and Bop.
I had plenty of time to work on this jigsaw last week but I was where the jigsaw wasn't. Now that we're back I was able to give it the last hour it needed to finish off. I don't recommend this style although there are plenty of practitioners out there like our cleaner Michelle and our beach friend Jill who love the no reference puzzling. Michelle saw the half finished version and was raving about it. I still need a box cover to refer to. This one is going back today and I would have preferred the picture below before I started it. So to those out there giving this one a try, be my guest, as here is a high definition photo of the finished scene. To quote "The Rock Maui" Your Welcome.
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Nurses have a lot to do. Here we have a pain management schedule 4x per day and the medicine schedule also 4x per day. At least these two can be co-ordinated. Then there is the wound management schedule which gets out of step at 3x per day. This one is tricky where the wound must be kept moist but not wet. And for some reason eye ointment is good for this. There are also eye drops which do go in the eyes but not on the wound. Finally there is the sleep and the food schedules and the trickiest one, trying to wash hair without getting any water on the neck.
We have been wrangling with a health insurance report which has to be on the correct form and filled out by a doctor with a stamp identifying them in the registry. That filled out form was in the mail to us over a week ago, as we were leaving to get the operation done and we have been caught up with that ever since. However I got an email from the Allianz people saying the claim had been approved and funds would be paid into our bank account. Hooray, and all the fuss about a particular medical report does not seem to be so important afterall, as we never got the chance to send it. So moral here is don't forget that credit cards have automatic insurance cover. Now its onto our real insurance claim with RACV insurance. It never ends.
This area brings back MMBW memories as I spent a lot of time mapping the Kororoit Creek and Cherry Lake area. There is a bicycle circuit of the lake you can do with access from the Williamstown trail then it is a short ride down to Altona and back via the Bay trail. It was a bit breezy and being a Sunday most people going around the lake were families with scooters and prams. I was constantly on the bell ringer and such consternation when a bike was going passed. There is a Kororoit bike trail but it stops a few kms from joining this network. The council needs to look at that one.
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We found a coffee place nearby to the Alfred. On a weekday there are a dozen coffee spots inside the complex but on the weekend it seems a bit ghost townish. If the patients need some air then just on the other side of Punt Rd is the New Order. Sounds like a scifi book. I also recommed the scrambled eggs. Mind you sitting around with a very large scar and a drainage line on display is not a good look, so there was some fashion engineering to be able to go for a walk. James had the chilli eggs and they had some heat.
The recovery days continue with the docs extending the stay due to ongoing drainage issues. That means everyone is being thorough. In the meantime grandies need attention so I called in for an afternoon of action. It was a bit of a surprise visit. We started at the park with some playground tennis and finished in the backyard with trampoline basketball. In between was bicycle racing. These grandies certainly blew off some steam. Bianca fixed me up with some chicken dinner which is good becuase I have run out of food here.
