A slight case of overblogging

• I have seen the parathyroid surgeon today and have surgery booked for September 3rd
• I'm going to go visit baby Oliver (and his mum and dad and grandad and granny) next weekend while Mike is away in Nottingham
• We are going on holiday: staying in Exeter for a week from the 16th. Conveniently letting me travel there directly from Rae's hen night in Cardiff, rather than coming home first.

It's all good. Apparently the urology appointment I have on 27th August will just be to discuss what to do about the kidney stone, rather than actually do it, but that's not the end of the world. And I have to visit the hospital for pre-assessment 2 days before the parathyroid surgery, but hopefully that'll just be a reasonably short appointment rather than taking a day off work. And I'll have over a week to recover before we're off to Bath for Rae and Adam's wedding.

My sister Steph was supposed to go in for induction for her baby last Monday at 38.5 weeks, because she has gestational diabetes. They didn't have a bed though, so she went in on Tuesday instead. Since then she's been alternating between trying to induct her without much success and waiting around while they do nothing because there's no cot for the baby. I went up to visit on Friday and came home today and there's still no baby, and even if it does manage to arrive tonight/tomorrow both mum and baby will be on the transitional care ward for at least 48 hours, to which they're only allowing partners to visit because of swine flu.

It's all been rather stressful for everyone, however she is now finally in labour, so fingers crossed! And it was good to see her and Dave and mum and dad. I wish I could have stayed up longer really, to see them when they can come out, but I have a hospital appointment on Tuesday that I can't put off.