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01/15/2004: "Phonecall from the hospital."

Have just been informed my biopsy isn't being done tonight. It's unlikely to be tomorrow. There are no beds available.

The admissions department at the hospital will speak to my consultant and book me in as soon as possible. I should be prepared to come in at short notice if there is a 'cancellation'.

This fucks everything up. I don't know how healthy I am (well, I know I am not in critical condition) and I don't know when I'll have to interrupt my job again.

I've also spent the entire day slacking off. How the hell am I going to explain to my boss that, even though I didn't go to the hospital, I wasn't able to work at home?




Newsletter I sent to people - sent at 0030 on Jan 16th.

NHS efficiency strikes again.

They cancelled my appointment. The cheeky buggers.

I was set to go. I'd shaved using my rose-scented soap (better for the environment than a gel, tubes to throw away), worn matching socks and was mentally prepared for awful food and elderly Jamaican nurses with comically bad wigs.

I'd prepared some catchphrases for the biopsy "Ahh Meester Bont, I've been expecting you" "Tell me about this.. thing.. you call... love" and was set for a night of making notes, reading a book and dealing with an interesting day by chilling out and having a kip. Then they cancelled. Grrr. Why I oughta! etc.etc.

Ah, fuck it. I'll get tested later. If I find out my one working kidney is fucked, I'll deal with it then. Right now I've got a Friday to get through and a weekend to enjoy. Have a good one yourselves. I'll let you know when I've been to hospital.

I might even flirt with one of the nurses. *wry grin*

Music: Valen Halen, Jump. Why? Because feedback is some people you think I'm constantly depressed. I'm actually just cheerfuly cynical. How I *write* things isn't the same as how I *say* them.

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Big Boa Fights Porcupine, Seeks Sanctuary

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Eight firefighters removed a seven-foot-long boa constrictor from the back yard of a house in the hills above this city Thursday. The snake had apparently been fighting with a porcupine and came to the house for sanctuary.

It took the firefighters nearly two hours to remove the snake from the backyard of the house on the edge of the city's Tijuca forest, said Sub-Lt. Armando Viana of the Rio de Janeiro fire department.

Viana said he believed the snake had entered the yard after fighting with a porcupine because it had large black spines in its head. Firefighters removed the spines and treated the snake's wounds.

Viana said another smaller boa constrictor had also been found near another Rio residence later in day.

``I think what's happening is that there's a lack of food in the forest which is forcing the snakes to descend to the urban areas where some residents keep chickens and ducks,'' he said.

Rio de Janeiro is home to world's largest urban rainforest with lush green jungle covering many of the city's hills.

Monkeys, tree sloths and anteaters are all common in the area.

Firefighters planned to release the snake back into the forest but would not say when or where because boas are valued here for their meat and leathery green and yellow skin.

01/15/04 16:15

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