After countless emails and texts over the weekend it turned out the cancelled postponed cannot give a F follow up with Dipstick was back on.

I was entreated to stay available all morning for THE call.

I was hopeful this meant perhaps SNS would be up for change. Further excitement was a letter on ERIC the patient portal thing that I had a CT booked too. Wow. I was impressed clearly a CT preop checks. Lead positions etc.

This morning,eventually, Dipstick rang. He did not ask me how I was how it’s been how anything.

He said he was ringing to tell me the effects of the pandemic meant my SNS operation could not be scheduled. No change. No idea when elective surgery was to be resumed. It could be 3 years. 3 bloody years. WHAT!?

His team usually have 12operating lists a week. Now they have 2. A month.

He had no idea why he’d requested aCT scan. Did I want to go to it ? Well I suppose so I mumbled.

I didn’t ask him what on earth he ISdoing. I just sort of wished him luck and cut the call.

There must be so many many patients waiting waiting. What is the plan? . There actually isn’t a forward plan is there? What can we do? I just don’t know that there is capacity resources finances to get back to anything like ‘ normal’.