A forced break

Hi all

Thanks so much for the well-wishes, I really appreciate your thoughts!

I have been out of hospital for two days after spending a week at the Freemasons in East Melbourne. As explained I had a procedure called a Nephrectomy, which is the removal of a kidney. This was due to complications of a birth defect I had which wasn't discovered until my early thirties (37 now). I did have the problem surgically repaired 4 and a half years ago, but the pain never went away and over the last 18 months I have had 4 opinions on what to do. This seemed like an extreme option to take as the kidney was still working at a reduced function, but having another prerfectly good kidney meant I could take this option. The kidney could not be repaired again due to the scar tissue from the previous surgery - so I agreed to have this done. Basically, most days I felt like dragging myself off to hospital as the pain was a 10 out of 10 and I really wanted some releif.

Anyway, the doctors and nurses treated me very well and on the day of surgery my Anesthetist told me that this is the 2nd most painful surgery that there is. Well, let me tell you that I won't argure with that. I have had 13 other operations in my time and this took the cake for pain!

I have another 6 - 8 weeks of recovery ahead of me and taking some necesarry time off work. Sitting hear in a brand new home with lots to do is quite frustrating but nothing I can do about it.

I will get the camera out and take some shots of the finished flooring, and driveway once completed. There will be some homemade curtain work starting soon, so this will be up on the blog when done.

I guess that's enough about me, this supposed to be about our house. I have been feeling quite guilty about the lack of updates and photo's and will do my best to get this blog up to speed.

Cheers, Tony