Tuesday 9 June.
I went to the loft when I got up and handed down another load of boxes and bags to Moira. One was eaten into and I told her to be careful and that there might be a rat in it. There was and it scurried into our bedroom. When I had completely cleared everything from the loft I came down to see if the rat was still about. Moira closed all the doors in the house and only the back door was left open. I began stripping our bed and putting everything that was lying about into the toilet. Moira then spotted the rat behind the bed. We pulled out the bed and it ran out and hid under the dressing table. I poked around with a broom and it eventually came out, darted through the hall and out the back door. Hopefully that's the last of the rats. We will get some rat poison to make sure.
I had a shower and shaved then made the breakfast. As I was washing up afterwards the guy to repair the satellite dish phoned he was at the gate and Moira buzzed him through. A new dish would cost R500, about £25, which seemed very reasonable, so. We told him to go ahead. By the time I had finished washing the dishes and tidying up he was finished and started to tune in the TV. That operation took a while but eventually we were watching Sky News. Moira didn't have enough money to pay him but he said just to call into his shop later with the money, very trusting!
I wanted to get the TV on to the radio channels but it took me a while to figure out how to do it. At last I got there and tuned into Classic FM. We couldn't get this station on the normal radio as it is based in the Jo'burg area and can only be picked up digitally here at the coast. We listened to the lovely music until after lunchtime while Moira opened more boxes and I read my book.
In the afternoon I had an appointment with Dr de Bruin the urologist. It was at 2 pm but we got into Port Shepstone at 1:30 pm. Moira drove to the Nedbank branch in the town centre and got some money from the ATM. The television-man's shop was next door to the bank and we paid him for the dish. We were still early for my appointment but asked the receptionist for the ENT doctor about the operation on my ear as she hadn't phoned yesterday. She said she phoned but there was no reply; she still had our 'ancient' number. The doctor had said she couldn't remember any major problem that required an operation but the receptionist would get her to talk to me when she finished with the patient that was with her. Dr Viljoen came out a few minutes later and said to come through and she would have a quick look at my ears. I told Dr Bruin's receptionist where I was going and off I went. Once she had a look in my ears she said to come through and lie on the couch and she would clear out the wax. I told Moira to go outside in case the other doctor was looking for me while Dr Viljoen got to work on the wax. A big chunk came out of my right ear easily enough but the left with the narrow canal took a bit longer and more pain. The piece that came out of that ear was huge. The doctor said that it wasn't imperative to get the operation but it was up to me. I said that i had problems with the hearing aid because of the narrow canal and it caused irritation, so I wanted it done. She accepted that and told her receptionist to make the arrangements. I go into Hibiscus Hospital in the morning, fast service. When we came out of her rooms Dr de Bruin still hadn't finished with the patient who was with him and I sat for 5 more minutes to wait.
Eventually I got in to see him. We were in for about half an hour but most of it was spent talking about our travels, running and walking. He has run 5 Comrades but didn't take part this year due to a calf muscle injury. My examination consisted of an ultra sound scan where there wasn't anything untoward found. I told him that I was getting up a number of times during the night to the loo. He said I had three options; do nothing, take medication or have the operation, I had, again. I opted initially for the pills and would decided about another operation if that didn't work. He gave me a prescription for the pills and a form to take to the labs behind the hospital for a blood test.
When we left it was just a short walk around the corner to the labs. They had most of our info on the computer, just the new phone number to enter. It was only a few minutes to wait and the sample was taken from my arm. Before going back to collect the car at the doctor's we went to the Sanlam office just down the hill from the hospital. I couldn't get into my Unit Trust account with them on the computer, it wouldn't accept my password for some reason. Unfortunately this office didn't deal with the public and we were re-directed to Sheppie Mall which was in the dip before the town centre. We collected the car and drove there, they were very helpful and got into my account with only having to hand over my ID book. There is now R66K accrued but they couldn't help me with my access to the account online. This required a few phone calls to get to the right department to deal with the problem. After some security questions the woman said she was emailing me an access code to get into my account and reset my password.
We headed home now but stopped on the way at the shopping centre in 'Tweni. I got my pills from the pharmacy then into Spar for a roasted chicken for dinner. We had the chicken with an avocado salad, we had bought the avos at the side of the motorway when we were coming from the airport last week. The weren't very ripe then, very hard, so Moira put them in a bag with a banana to speed up the ripening. Now they were soft snd delicious and went well with then chicken. I tried to get into my Sanlam account with the access code as soon as I for in but it had timed out. It was only valid for an hour. I will have to try again, the next time I'll have the iPad handed so that I can enter in straight away.
After dinner we listened to the radio for a while then I scrolled through the TV channels. I couldn't find anything on the entertainment side so tried the sport's channels. I found the one day cricket match between England and NZ from Birmingham. NZ were just starting their innings in reply to an amazing 409 scored by England. I watched the match at the same time as reading my book until about 9 pm then Moira went to bed, she was coughing and not feeling well. By that time NZ were 190 for 8 and it wasn't going to last much longer so I went to bed as well and read for half an hour before getting to sleep.
I hadn't had anything to eat or drink after 9 pm and now I wouldn't have anything until after my operation tomorrow.
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