HI Wendy

Even though it sounds stressful, it also sounds like movement.

Maybe the private surgeon will move you up the list on the say so of the other specialists. But that 4 hour appointment ...

Alex actually makes himself ill just before the "group hug" as we call it. Stuck in a waiting room with some people who haven't even been told yet, is a misery as we remember that's where we were exactly 12 months ago (Alex rang me at work to wish me an unhappy anniversary for the 2nd March yesterday). However, after the appointment, he bounces out of the place like a kid let out of school and the discussion is around whether we should go to the pub outside the hospital or try and beat the peak hour and have a glass of wine at home on the balcony, overlooking Lane Cove National Park, watching the Sun go down and being deafened by the hundreds of cockatoos living in the trees.

Fingers crossed for a completely expected result on the scan and a date for Steve's surgery

Karen