The Sweet Service Award goes to Discovery, for paying all the costs associated with my recent eye operations, including the opthalmologist cost the day hospital expenses, and the cost of a PCR Test which I needed prior to the first operation. While I realise that I have paid for the insurance costs, and have never previously claimed, it was an effortless process, the staff of Dr Vayanos doing the paperwork with Discovery. All that was required was my Discovery number. Continue reading →
Wednesday 9 February 2022, Day 132 of Level 1 😷
Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏
#grateful for a reasonably peaceful day, hard working this morning; for a Bakoven walk; for a check up at my Opthalmologist Dr Vayanos, all looking good, going back in two weeks to get my prescription specs updated; for popping in at the new mini Coco Safar at Hertex opposite the Gardens Center, sadly with very poor service; for only one Discovery Gameboard play; for receiving my German birth certificate translation from Astrid Hambrock; for a Camps Bay walk; for Pick n Pay keeping Whiskas cat food for me, to collect this afternoon; and for being Continue reading →
Tuesday 1 February 2022, Day 124 of Level 1 😷
Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏
#grateful for a hot day, becoming misty; for a day of minimal writing; for Gary Peterson coming to fetch me to take me to the MediCross Day Hospital next to the Netcare Hospital on the Foreshore, for the first of two eye ops, having cataracts removed from my right eye today, all done by lunchtime, Gary fetching me and taking me home again; for a one hour sleep, having to lie on my left side, wearing a perspex eye patch, tonight and every night for a week; for managing a walk to Camps Bay Continue reading →