Week ending 11 Oct 2015

Last week I posted about taking MIL for the cataract operation selection process. This was on the 29th of September. We were thrilled that surgery to her left eye was scheduled for a week hence: the 7th of October. On Wednesday morning at 4.30 am we fetched MIL at the home. We were at the hospital in Bloemfontein at 6.35 am where the staff guided to the theater waiting room with about 35 other patients. 

We sat and waited. 

And waited. 

At 8.05 am a Sotho lady entered the area and spoke rapidly to the majority in their language. Before I could gauge what it was about, another man arrived and repeated her speech in Afrikaans. What it boiled down to was that the operations for that day were postponed for a week: Wednesday 15th. What a disappointment. But that's the state for you! We drove back to  Marquard and dropped MIL at the center, promising to collect her next week and try again! (Watch this space**)

Sharing a joke over "padkos" (packed food and beverages) the day of MIL's selection process 

Grant and his mother 

Back home the kids pop over often with our grandchildren

Baby Liam had just woken up...

Here he's having a good laugh at his "funny" granddad...

...sporting Abby's sunglasses

Rina put the sunglasses on Liam

He loved the laughter he was causing!

Here's wishing you all a wonderful week ahead!