Hospital Day

6.40 AM. Just finished putting up the curtains, in the hospital carpark. In my cocoon.

Bad dreams again. Woke for the final time at 4AM, coffee, warmed the engine away from the only other overnighters, nearby. Shower in Queanbeyan courtesy of without doubt the best staff and management in the country. Truly wonderful attitudes and people.

This shot while warming the car at the top of tge turnaround taken at 5.20AM. Even now at 6.46AM it’s still dark.

First Inverter Ironing

9.30 AM. Set up the towel on the table. Cleared around. Checked fire extinguisher. Turned on the inverter after turning on the kill switch and it didn’t even beep. Instant green ligjt.

Ironed the shirt, using a spray bottle because the water injection is crap. Worked a treat.

No big numbers on the shunt monitor. No sounds. The iron cycled as it’s supposed to. No battery drop whatsoever. Took maybe 15 minutes. Amazing.

Worked a treat.

3.25 PM

Back in the van in the carpark, with no work done on the eyes. No injections and no laser. Next appointment two months. Doctor is going to see how it goes.

Two bad experiences here though. The ringing noise is particularly bad. So I decided to report it. Said it was harmful. Cranky lady at the desk said I had to fill in a feedback form. I was in red zone low sugar, told her I’m not doing that, to which she got angry at me!

I left straight to the pharmacy for jelly beans and a potato scallop next door. Felt like reporting the worker. What a bad attitude.

Then at the clinic it’s absolutely overflowing everywhere so I ask a couple of hospital people if we could put some chairs there for a woman sitting on the floor with her young son. He argued as cranky as heck, too.

I was polite to both. Possibly too polite, giving them an opening to get into me.

So I’m the bad guy, treated that way, trying to do the right thing by helping. Makes me not want to live.

Hot in the van. I can’t drive because of the drops, and have no place to go and no one to see.

I hope my life ends soon. It’s not good for anything.