Hear ye, Hear ye,

Paying homage to my "olde English" roots with today's title.
I heard back this week from the chief nurse of the renal team on the North Shore that they are now looking at operating later in the evenings on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which would entail changing days to also take in Saturday. Good that I shall be able to work longer and do the weekend dialysis on my time, less impact on my colleagues and disruption to my work (those who know me will be shocked at my Puritan attitude to work, I shall next invest in a hair shirt and a spot of self flagellation).
They are also happy with the idea of becoming what they call "home trained" which basically means that I shall have the machine at home and be able to dialyse at night on my own terms! So no fistula (yuk!) and surrounded by by adoring cats and dogs.I am due in to see them about the length of my tunnel line to see whether it is of a decent length or not. Am pleasantly surprised at the WDHB's new stance over the working patients.

On a completely unrelated and random topic, I joined a discussion forum last week and was asked for my credentials upon attempting to enter, after which I received the following message:

The login was successful!

Please wait while we transfer you...
(Or click here if you do not wish to wait)

Now a couple of observations here..... Why the exclamation mark? Was the attempted login expected to be a catastrophic event, a flight of fancy so detached from reality that we are to be congratulated at the completion of this unattainable goal. Or perhaps this is merely a screen behind which an epic fight between the forces of good and evil rages...To enter this website first you must defeat the massed hordes of Abalonithia, the most vicious and callous slayers of men since the fabled Battle of Nazcarrew. Beware of the snapping jaws of the Forgotten user name, and then perilously stab mercilessly at the password field, relentlessly fighting on to achieve this wondrous result.....

But I digress.

Click here if you do not wish to wait? This isn't Disneyland, or the A&E department on a Saturday evening, this is a website where you will wait a mere nanosecond for the user name and password to be recognised? Are there some people so important and stressed out that they have to bypass the almost instantaneous acknowledgement of their credentials? Perhaps for some people the titanic struggle betwixt their password and the terrible onslaught of the website defence system is too much.....