Progress (I guess)

We had yet another outing to Waikato Hospital today. Its gotten so that the staff at Day patient Clinic know us by name. All we have to do now is show up & the rest happens. Herself had to go & have another endoscopy so that her plumbing could be rearranged & so that the ologist in charge of her case could see why the Micki Button wasn't a howling success. For those of you that don't know, an endoscopy is when you are mildly sedated,(to at least the point of insensibility) a plumbing device not unlike a length of garden hose with a light a little clamp on it is passed down the throat into the stomach. In Jude's case today, the light was turned on so that the ologist could see what the problem was, her current fitting removed from the outside, a wire fed in through the hole which was grabbed by the clamp & pulled back up through the throat. The new bit was then pulled down & through the hole with the mushroom sitting neatly against the wall of the stomach on the inside.

The reason that the Micki was hurting her was that it was protruding through far enough that it was touching the opposite wall of the stomach. The inside wall of the stomach is quite touchy about things like this & was continually trying to get rid of it the only way it knew, ie, swallowing it. Tired & scratchy I think would describe it. Anyway, the new fitting is in & at least there is an improvement in it as the fitting that holds it in place on the outside has a right angle bend in it, which makes it a lot less conspicuous than the original one. The Ologist has also managed to source out a new & improved Micki Button. Instead of having about an inch of tube & a latex balloon on the inside, this one has the same mushroom fitting that she has now. Even better is the fact that she doesnt have to have another endoscopy to fit it. This gubbins is fed into a metal tube which straightens out the mushroom, fed in from the outside & the tube removed leaving the mushroom in place on the inside.. White man's magic to the nth degree.

OTHER NEWS....

We be both busting our asses to get out fishing, but the weather isn't co operating. In fact, we actually gave in & lit the fire last night. Its not only us hanging out. One of the Ginger Ninja's saw me getting the boat out to take it in for a service & thought we were off & decided she was coming as well. This is a water safe cat seen licking its chops in anticipation of a feed of nice fresh fish...


That's her story anyway & I suspect she will stick to it........