This morning was extremely frustrating. I had to take my motorbike for its MOT
test; fortunately the place that does these tests is not very far away, and as I
know the owner (I did some programming for him over 20 years ago), he usually
passes the bike with just a cursory examination. But this time, when I checked
in, I was told that as the bike is over 15 years old, it has to have a special
brakes test that can only be done at an authorised garage - the nearest is about
40 km away. So I have to arrange for the bike to be picked up, tested and at the
same time have a 5,000 km service, then returned ... and only then can I do the
MOT test. The licence finished yesterday. Next week is the beginning of the
festival period.
At the same time that I was (not) dealing with these problems, I received
several phone calls from the local health centre; I only knew about the last
one as all the others came when I was driving the bike and so did not hear
them. I didn't know who specifically was calling and also I didn't know why,
so I couldn't easily return the call. Then a nurse from the kibbutz clinic
called to say that a nurse from the centre had been trying to call me -
apparently the doctor who performed the
biopsy1
a month ago had received the results and wanted to talk to me.
So I drove to the health centre (not very far from where I was), spoke to the
nurse and then sat down to wait an hour for the doctor to finish his regular
appointments. Apparently he is shortly going on holiday, which explains the
hurry. The biopsy results show that I have
Bowen's disease, not a BCC or a sebaceous cyst. This is treated by what's called
Mohs surgery; the difference between this and a normal excision is that each excised
piece of skin is examined on the spot, thus ensuring the full removal of the
growth, as opposed to removing some, sending it off for biopsy and receiving
an answer a month later.
I have an appointment for the beginning of November.
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