NoJoMo Day 5 in Diary

Prompt for day 5: What job would you never take? Why? Anything involving vomit, so a nurse, because I'm emetophobic and wouldn't be able to do it. Anything involving animal cruelty, so intensive farming, animal testing etc.

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Dad has his operation today. It was at 11am and he texted me in the morning saying he would text me later. When it got to 8pm I was starting to worry, but just assuming he was groggy from the anaesthetic or something. But he texted me at 8:15 to say he'd just got back on the ward. I don't know what took so long. It turns out he didn't have the radioactive plaque fitted, just some markers on the back of the eye for the proton beam to focus on when he goes back in December once his eye has healed. He has stitches in his eye and says it's very sore, I'm not surprised. He's watching the fireworks out of the hospital window. A year from now we'll know it's the day dad was in hospital because it's bonfire night, and we'll be saying "I can't believe that was a year ago."

Hopefully the fireworks will cheer him up and he can go home tomorrow and spend the rest of the week relaxing in his own home, surrounded by family.

Sorry to keep going on about it, it's all I've written about lately. Well not much else is going on and this is a big deal for our family. I don't think there'll be much more to update on this until he goes back next month.