Silkie, Mr Floof will not stop until he has conquered every inch of your his house. The ongoing saga of finding a school placement for your DS is extraordinarily unfair. It's as if the system is designed to be unaccountable.
Prok, your GP is correct. That's why I try to walk and ride my stationary bike daily.
Doctor, I agree with your prognosis. The hole in your diaphragm isn't going to close itself. You're stretching it non-stop just by breathing.
The timing on my surgery is becoming somewhat more explicit. The way the outpatient surgery suites are organized is that each surgeon has blocks of time for their exclusive use. His next block that works for me isn't until 2nd September. But he and I both want to have it on 17th August. This may be possible as any unbooked blocks are released to any surgeon a week before that date. And during the summer, many surgeons take annual leave. So there's a good chance that 17th August will work, but I won't know for sure until the 10th.
Just to complicate things, my GP doesn't have any time open to do my presurgical physical during the required time. I'm waiting on a call from her nurse to see if I can be shoehorned in any way. I may have to have another doctor or nurse practitioner do it, which isn't ideal but would solve the problem.