S. is going under the knife this morning and I’ll be in hospital shortly. It’s a necessary but not acutely life threatening operation. We’re cautiously optimistic if worried. Wish us the support of a random and uncaring universe.
UPDATE: back from hospital, S. having come out of the operation well enough to complain much about the doctors refusing to let her get outside for a quick cigarette (this being a woman known to have smoked while connected to an oxygen tank), though still in a lot of pain. Next few days we’ll see if it all was worthwhile.