11-Sep-2022
What a difference a week makes... Last week, we were sitting here, worried, and pretending we weren't. Now, it's all over. Nigel went into hospital on Monday, and had his operation on Tuesday. It went very well indeed, and he came out on Wednesday.
"Very well indeed" is an understatement. It really couldn't have gone better. Of all the possible things the problem could have been, it was the least bad and the easiest to fix. No need for a scary intervention from the neurosurgeon who was standing by. No need for post-op time in the ICU. By the end of op day Nigel was sitting up eating his dinner.
Very, very thankful...
Of course, he has to be super-careful for a while, and for this initial period, he has lots of medicines to take, and lots of new routines to follow. But compared with how it all could have been, it's a fantastic outcome. We're really fortunate to have had such good doctors (who are, it seems, following an incredibly long tradition of surgery in Borneo...)
Of course, this was also the week when the UK saw the arrival of a new prime minister and a new monarch. But for us, to be honest, this has all just been the soundtrack in the background of our own little dramas.
So, here's our week in pictures:
Nigel on Monday, preparing for the morrow
Daily life outside the window of his hospital room
Trendy post-op nose-wear
And home again... There's been lots of balcony time this week, including balcony-time-with-mooncakes
A celebratory glass of Sarawak's finest
Yesterday was Nigel's first post-hospital day out. This is medicinal gula apong ice cream...
That's the Mid-Autumn Festival full moon up there at the top, and we celebrated by ordering in Pak Lo duck from Duckie's, just like we did last year. As well as the tasty quacker, they also did good veggies (bean sprouts with salted fish, and kangkung with pork skin), and a nice, light longan pudding
Sunday brekkie at Wind Meal. I've not had banana pancakes for a REALLY long time...
And to round off, some Kuching colour: