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Thanks everyone ... took me a while to get back to you all. Been a strange day today. Anyway a bit of an update since my last post.
It continues to rain here. And the weather forecast for the next few days is ... yeah, you guessed it ... more rain! At this stage Wednesday is looking like being fine, so fingers crossed thats the case. But for the past 5 days ... for the 24hrs to 9am each day ... we have had .... 20mm, 110mm, 149mm, 130mm .. and since 9am this morning we have already had another 100mms. So thats 509mms in only 4.5 days. On the old scale of measurement .. thats over 20 inches. No wonder our wider area is completely inundated by floodwater.
Anyway all that has meant that hubby did not make it home this afternoon as planned. No way in and no way out of our little village or our nearby town. Roads are all cut off due to floodwaters. Our river peaked yesterday afternoon and the water levels have reduced somewhat, but water remains over the bridges into town off the highway. So hubby and his friends only got to some 20kms south of here before being turned around. Thankfully one of his friends has a holiday home some 40 mins from here, and thats where they have gone to wait out the floods.
I received several phone calls this morning. The first was from my vet. Holly was booked in to have her tests done at the vets on Tuesday. But because of the floods, they are going to be closed Mon and Tuesday. So they have rescheduled Hollys procedures to Wednesday. I'm hoping by then that I am able to get into town. At present I cannot, so I was going to have to ring and cancel anyway, but they beat me to it.
The second call was from my radiation oncologist. I had an appointment with her for a follow up check in a larger town over an hour north of here. Its where I was having the radiation therapy back in January and February. I was very surprised because firstly its a Sunday and none of our medical professionals in regional areas work on a Sunday. And secondly because it was the specialist herself who rang. Anyway she rang to say that due to the flooding in their town (which is just as bad as it is here) they were not opening the clinic this week. All appointments would become telehealth consults. Given the flooding and my own inability of getting there tomorrow, I was going to have to call tomorrow to cancel anyway. So she saved me the trouble. Now it wll be same time, but on the phone. Clearly we wont be doing any scans or other tests.
The third call was from hubbys GP. He has an appointment with his GP in town on Tuesday morning. They rang to ask if they could change it to a phone consult instead of face to face. I readily agreed. The GPs practice is located in one of the low lying areas just up from the river, so I suspect they may be flood affected as well.
Only 2 appointments remain now for next week. Hubby has an appointment with his dermatologist for his 6 monthly melanoma checkup on Tuesday afternoon. That one cannot be done over the phone, so it may need to be cancelled if the floodwaters dont subside and allow our roads and bridges to reopen. Although its likely we will get a call from them tomorrow. And hubby also has an appointment with his neurologist in the city 2 hours south of here on Thursday. It was to be face to face this time. But I think I will try to get it changed to a phone consult instead. Hoping the roads will reopen by Thursday, but thats not guaranteed. And even if they do reopen, its still going to be a pretty difficult drive.
So my day has been filled up with several phone calls. My mobile has been on 'emergency calls only' mode for most of the last 2 days. If I do get through, it drops out. And my landline has a constant buzz in it ... although the other end tells me its clear for them. And it too often drops out. And thats not a new thing, its just normal for us here. So any telephone consults could be a bit of a hit and miss affair. Interestingly the oncologist stated that their phones were playing up too, so it looks like its something to do with the flooding. Not sure, I dont know how these things work. I did hear that internet access had been badly affected in the area too, but so far I seem to have reasonable net access. Only lose connection occasionally. Welcome to the bush folks!
Anyway ... for another day at least ... its just little Holly and me. Some good and some bad in that. Nice that I get an extra day's respite. But bad because I'm worrying about hubby. I already know he did not take his morning medications, some of which can have deadly consequences. But he does not see the importance of it at all. I often think he has no idea. And yet his specialist tries to drum into him the fact that he simply MUST have these tablets. Even to the extent that if he gets really unwell, such as a bout of gastro, that I need to get him immediately to hospital for urgent injections of this drug. Because illness would mean he would not be absorbing the medications which keep him alive. Sigh ... but what can you do? I try to tell him and he hangs up on me. I just hope that his afternoon dose of the medication will be enough to get him through. And that he remembers to take his morning meds tomorrow. Its not difficult after all ... they are all packaged up ready for him .. he just has to get them and swallow them. But no .. too hard .. he was on the road travelling today. Grumble grumble.
So .. after all my whining .. how is everyone? I realise that a lot of the heavy rains and subsequent flooding has now moved South, including Sydney areas. Please stay safe everyone, and dont venture out if you can avoid it.
Emelia 💕🤗
