More tampering with Glenyce’s poor body to come
It’s being a hard year for my darling wife Glenyce. She’s had a couple of skin cancers cut out of her face, and that’s needed a total of 30 stitches (see below).
She’s soon (late July) going to have to rub some anticancer ointment (Efudex) on her face for 3 weeks, during which time her skin will become red and blotchy. It preferentially destroys solar keratoses (incipient skin cancers), but partially damages the normal skin at the same time. Then there’s a period of another 3 weeks where it heals up again, giving new, cancer-free skin.
OK, now the next bit. We saw an orthopaedic surgeon today, and the upshot of it is that she needs a total knee replacement on her left leg. And so it will come to pass that on October 14th, Glenyce will have a 90-minute operation in which her left knee will be replaced by a cunning contraption of titanium, chromium-cobalt, and specialized plastics, all glued in place, aligned with the aid of a computer.
She will have a considerable period of convalescence at home afterward, during which time I will rise to the occasion vis-a-vis domestic tasks (which I have so cunningly hitherto avoided). I am sure there will be frustration and problems in all sorts of ways. But the good news is that she will have many years of trouble-free living in the years to come. We both come from long-lived families, and need to make it all count as much as possible, albeit with the application of modern medical technology.
Here’s to a long life!