The Wonders of Public Hospitals

Ev's dad has been on the waiting list for surgery for over four months, and was - after another postponement, wheeled into surgery yesterday, marked up with the Texta so the surgeon would know where to cut, and just about to be put under when told that there wasn't an ICU bed available so the surgery would have to be postponed! The story beggars belief, particularly when he was told that he really should have his surgery done within 90 days (it is now over 120), and it would hardly come as a surprise that morning that there was no ICU bed available. Someone has stuffed up.

Meanwhile, George returned home with a new date in his diary.

Anyone who has faced surgery knows the emotional preparation that goes into it. To be postponed the afternoon before is bad enough, but to be wheeled into theatre, gowned and marked up, then to be sent home.... that takes the cake.