Time to head South

Well our time is up at Jondaryan and Lucille has been given the all clear to travel home so we have hooked up and packed up ready to head off early tomorrow morning.

They removed the plaster from Lucille's arm on Thursday and took out the 23 staples from the wound, she was a bit nervous when I told her that the staples bend right over and take a fair pull to get out! She survived but her arm very sore and was pleased to get a new cast back on to support the broken bones, will have cast off at home and x-ray again, they might have to operate again, will make that decision in a months time.

 

Of course you all know that Lucille loves to sit still and do nothing but with her right arm out of action it is not pleasing her much at all but she does make a good supervisor!

 

The staff at Jondaryan presented us with a framed photo of the Woolshed today, wished us well and told us to return again soon,  we certainly appreciated  the gesture and hopefully in the future we will return.

 

 

 

Miss Lucille

God Bless our Health System

Well it was decided that Lucille's broken bones needed plates and screws attached so surgery was scheduled for last Wednesday, we arrived at the appointed time of 7.30am and waited and waited and were sent home a bit after lunch time as her op had been cancelled and told to return Thursday morning at 6.30am which we did, at lunchtime they suggested I go home as there was delays and op would be late afternoon, Lucille rang to say they wanted to send her home via a taxi but she said " no way am I leaving here till my operation is done"! They let her stay, they had no beds but they put her up in a red cross unit across the road from the hospital.
So at day break here's Lucille in her hospital night attire walking back over the road to take up her seat in the waiting room again.......well at 9.30pm that night she finally got in and after a couple of hours surgery she was finally done!
Lucille had a lovely surprise when her best friend Jenny and her Husband David drove up from Brisbane to visit her in hospital, she was so happy to have them, thanks guys.

I was able to pick her up at lunchtime on Sunday and she was certainly pleased to see the back of that place! The hospital did try and smooth over the pains of it all by not charging for the Red Cross Unit, for waiving our Private Health Cover excess for the other night, free parking and free coffee from the cafe, bugger forgot to use those!

So now we both back at Jondaryan, I had a very busy three days at  the Jackie Howe Shearing Festival, had over 13,000 people here and it was a great success and the Tassie shearers and wool handlers did us proud by winning a lot of the events, most of them were from the Carrick area.

Lucille is coping ok, mainly due to the amount of drugs she is taking, her arm is still quite sore and she is very tired most of the time but today she showed her true colours by agreeing to play school Maam in period costume and took three classes of primary school kids who are camped here for three days, she did well but was glad to get back to her bed this afternoon.

She has a check up next Wednesday and if all ok we will hit the road and head South, if not all ok, well we will do what we need to do to get her fixed up.

Cheers for now
Chris & Lucille