Abdominocentesis

This morning we drove into Perth to the Public Trustee office to draw up a new will. We already have a will each, but our daughter Helen was the executor and we felt that it would too much of a burden on her and so gave the job to the Public Trustee. We were lucky to have someone on the inside at the PT and we had the will ‘drawn up, signed sealed and delivered’ in about 40 minutes. Our ‘insider’ is a delightful young lady who was a student of mine at Willetton Senior High. As proof of identity we took our new passports which have not yet been used. Joan suggested a trip to Bali just so that we could have our new passports stamped. I am not sure we will be able to manage a Bali trip.

After the Will, we drove to collect some computer gear from an Aboriginal organisation also in the city. The gal who is Manager there is also a very nice and has given me lots of good Mac gear over the years. Today I received a few keyboards. a couple of late model flat screen monitors and a nice iBook. At the moment I have a shed full of Macs ready to go to needy folks.

At 11am Joan was admitted into St John’s for an ‘abdominocentesis’, procedure to drain fluid from her abdomen. Her stomach and her legs and feet were very distended with the fluid retention. I just now talked to her and so far almost 4 litres of fluid have been collected and there is still much more to go. She hopes to be out tomorrow, but the oncologist suggests it may be another day yet.