Hmmm - progress, sort of

The last couple of days have been intensely frustrating, and have gradually taken a toll on my good humour. In short I seem to have fallen between the cracks, with no-one taking any real responsibility for resolving the situation. I understand entirely that my feeling that I'm the most important person in this thing is the best example of pure subjectivity I can think of, but you would reckon that significant others in the process (i.e. doctors and their administrators) would see it my way!

Deep breaths.............

I have been on the phone most of the day trying to figure out who is responsible for my next step (remember, either a stent or a bypass). Turns out that Noel Tait did make it to the meeting on Friday, and I was discussed. His admin person told me this morning when I rang that she was arranging an urgent(!) appointment with Tony Clarke (GIT guy). They'd be in touch. So this afternoon I rang Clarke's rooms. Not there, his admin person will ring back - "she has your number". Back to Tait's office. "Who owns me at the moment? Tony Clarke? That means a stent, doesn't it?".
Then Tony Clarke himself rang, and said that they'd decided to put in a stent, but that he couldn't do it because he was going for a junket (sorry, conference) to Washington for two weeks on Friday, but that Andrew Thompson (Thommo!) was quite good at these things, and could do me in the next couple of days, or in three weeks, because he's going to Engerland "on a junket" (true!), too.
So here's the go. Apparently I am to have a stent put in by Thommo (who, remember, is quite good at these things). Tomorrow or Friday. The rationale is that the stent won't annoy the cancer, and if it goes wrong ("about 80% of the time they're fine") then there's still the option of the bypass, which presumably Noel Tait would do, if he's in the country. If the bypass didn't work, there's really no way to go. Actually makes sense when you think about it like that.
More when I get the phone call from Thommo's people, which might even be this arvo - its still light after all.