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Thank you so much everyone for the JuJu and good wishes. The surgery went very well and the surgeons are delighted with DHs recovery so far. He is still on the ward but hopes to be released on Wednesday. It's only a few minutes walk from our apartment here, so I go up for an hour each morning and evening.

Good to hear if the various Rhinebeck visits. We both have fond memories of the year I attended. Long ago....

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On 12 Oct 2023 01:34, Amy Brotslaw Schweiger <brotslaw@...> wrote:

Sending juju for successful surgery in Geneva!

Because of Facebook connecting me to other people with my chronic disease, alas I hear horror stories about the NHS and access to care on a nearly daily basis. It’s really a shame that it is so underfunded and unable to help everyone who needs health care.

Amy

On Oct 11, 2023, at 2:22 AM, Jenny Swanson <jenny@...> wrote:

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Dear Everyone,

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We have had a tricky summer, as DH needs a particular, uncommon, surgical solution for his aggressive prostate cancer, and after it was cancelled in London two days before it was due to happen (late August) it now turns out there is currently nobody in the Uk who is able to offer it at present. After six weeks of struggling with funding authorities of various kinds, he turned to the University Hospital in Geneva, just up the road from our apartment there, and they have come through wonderfully. He is booked to have a similar (though not identical) surgery on Thursday 19^th October. Fingers crossed no covid or anything else holds it up this time.

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We are told there is a 50% chance of a full cure following this procedure, but that’s the best anyone has been able to offer us so that is what we have to go with. More finger crossing!

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Any spare juju, both that the op goes ahead, and that it goes well and has a successful outcome, would be very much appreciated!!!!!

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As anyone on Ravelry will know, I have been browsing Christmas Stocking patterns, and also advent projects as these tend to use small amounts of a lot of different colours and I have several kilograms of 4 ply bits and pieces which need used up. Realistically, I won’t be doing anything like that for the few days up to and following the surgery, because I know that in a hospital situation the only things I can manage are simple socks or endless stripy blankets. But one can imagiknit (as I learned from this group decades ago). Goodness, I can remember when a whole group of us turned 40 – and its my 65^th birthday this coming December.

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It has been a very strange year, both family-wise and indeed weather wise. I hope everyone else, and families, are staying well and finding joy in life. We are trying to keep cheerful.

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Jenny