January 2, 2012

  • Monday 2nd January 2012

    Monday Night: Valencia. What a shit day, in fact what a shit week! Beccie had to go to Alicante for a biopsy on Tuesday and her tumor was diagnosed as cancer.

    Wednesday they went to a hospital in Valencia for a second opinion and told she would need Chemo and radio therarapy as there is no operation possible....... She then had to make the choise between "private or state" hospital.....

    Thursday Chrissie went with her and Antony to Alicante to see the specialist.... beccie decided to go with the Spanish state system as it is the best in Europe......
     
    Friday first thing she went to the ER in Denia and was immeaditaly rushed to another hospital in Valencia by ambulance.

    We drove up Friday Night and stayed until late, then we drove up again on Saturday, but first we had to go to the other way 60 miles to Alicante to take Daniel to the Airport. On the way from the airport we had been asked to go to the first hospital in Alicantre to pick up the biopsy for the new hospital to do more tests on, but they wouldn't let us have it and told us to come back Monday morning, but they would call us when it was ready.

    Today to save time we decided to go to Alicante early as it is an hours drive away, we arrived in the morning only to be told we had to wait until 5pm..... So we had to spent the whole day just waiting. We went to find a restaurant, in fact we drove along the beach front for 5 miles, but every bar was closed! Eventually we decided the best thing to do was to go to a "real" Spanish town and not the tourist bits, so we drove out of Alicante to a town called El Altet, which is near the airport. This little town had 10 bars to choose from in one small street, we had a good feed for just 6 euro's each. At least the sample was ready just before 5pm......

    The drive from Alicante to Valencia is 2 hours on the motorway, but then Daffnee (the sat nav) got us totally lost in Valencia taking us to some random location miles from the hospital. I don't know how that happened and I don't know the place at all as every large avenue looks the same as the next, especially in the dark. The traffic lights go red for ever and cars and people dive in front of you........ So it took ages to get to the hospital. (At least I have wi-fi here).......