Early Easter News

Things ain't what they used to be.
Margaret and Janet got back from Aberdeen after Margaret's chemotherapy. She must not have contact with me because her treatment means her immune system is less effective and I contracted an infection while they were away.
Although she had nurses coming in she collapsed one day and it was decided that she should go back to hospital to be safe.
Meanwhile I had nurses coming in to see me. They told Aberdeen that I was infected.
Aberdeen says that I need to be fitter before I become ill enough to have chemotherapy.
Meanwhile BT and Outreach are trying to find the meaning of the word liaise. BT took our old number when they should not have done. They then took days to give it back but it was a different number without the facility to leave messages. They did not tell us we had the phone back nor that it was a different number. We picked it up one morning and thought we had everything back to normal. Next the builder sent his daughter to see us to say he could not get through. We rang him and he sais his mobile showed a different number. We phoned BT and told us they could give back our original number but it would delay the installation of that number in the new house. We decided to bite the bullet. They did not come to put in the phone on the appointed day.
We rang them./ They swore blind that the little man was on his merry way. We asked which ferry. They checked and said the job was booked to be done but they had not allocated an engineer to do it.
They told us not to worry it would be done forthwith or some such time. They sent us an  email saying that they were unable to contact us. Hardly surprising as they had not given the line the facility to accept messages. They gave us a new date by which they would have arranged something. (This email address does not accept messages.) They did not give name email or telephone number where someone could be reached. Next we got another email saying that something would be arranged by a later date. During this time Margaret was in and out of hospital and back in again.
We are not holding our breath. We are working out ways we might send smoke signals.
If I became a Trappist monk I would nt need the phone.
The trouble is we do need to phone nurses, doctors, MacMillan nurses and Occupational Therapists.
We also get calls from Specialists in Aberdeen and Lerwick and their secretaries. We also need to arrange accommodation in Aberdeen before we get there for treatment.
Stop Press.
I have just received a letter from Aberdeen.
The new date for treatment is 22nd. April 2014. Then 14th. May, 4th. June, 25th. July and 6th. August.
These dates will be kept if I supply an arm full of blood before each visit , subject to it being mine and fairly healthy.
Also, if I start picking up more infections they may have to put me in hospital and drip antibiotics into me.
So I may be ready for next football season.
I think my treatment in Aberdeen has been synchronised with Margaret's but I'm not sure. If it has then we will all go by plane. This could be a bigger risk of infection than the boat but Janet will have to run after us to make sure we don't wander off whichever way we go.
I am creaking and so on now so will leave the stage.
Barbara is feeding and watering the ponies and me as well as packing books for the move. Janet has started the rally drive to Lerwick to see Margaret. Michael is not far short of the Aberdeen ferry.
Now watch this space.