Monday July 21st 2008

Three days before our flight back to England.  Holiday for the dog is booked.  Cat is going to Feline Friends Cat Hotel.  Then in the early hours of this morning – 3am to be precise – the pain that Derek has had in his side all day gets worse, so we take a trip to San Jaime Hospital.  It is always nice and uncrowded at this time of the morning! Mad panic as we can not find the current insurance card, so we take the one that expired 2 years ago.  Luckilly no one seems to notice.  Derek is wheeled away from me for a battery of tests; chest x-ray, MRI, Cat scan, bloods taken and urine sample requested. No luck with the latter as he had just ‘been’.  With that we are shown to a room for the night. Drips are inserted and another request for urine made. In the morning the doctor visits and gives Derek the news that his pain has been caused by Kidney Stones.  However, on the scans they can see a shape on his left kidney and are pretty certain that it is a cancerous growth.  Derek signs himself out of the hospital to consider his options.

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