Adventures By Design

It’s been a busy couple of days. We’ve been trying to get our apartment marginally organized before the painters come, and packing and preparing for our trip to Canada.

Inca isn’t coming with us to Canada this time.

Late Saturday evening I started fasting.  On Sunday morning we took the train to Shanghai and arrived at the hospital where we immediately checked into our room.  At first I wasn’t sure if this was really our room, or just a holding area.  The room was rather nice: leather couch, coffee table, private bathroom with towels, toothbrushes, and soap.  It’s nicer than a lot of hotels we’ve stayed in.

As some of you know I have been entertaining an unexpected and unwanted guest in my left nostril. Nicknamed Norm, short for Abnorm, I noticed a small lump in my nose several weeks ago. At first I thought it was just a scratch and would go away on its own. But after a few days, it continued to grow and worse yet, it would spontaneously bleed. This was right at the start of our trip to Egypt, which was not an ideal location to hunt for a reputable international clinic (to be fair, we never actually looked, since in our experience the Egyptian approach to honesty and integrity do not inspire any confidence).