So today was supposed to be the big day. But of course it wasn’t. No eye surgery.

I am still sick. But I am feeling better. I probably could have gone through with the surgery. I don’t know if you have to be 100% fit to undergo full anesthesia, but I imagine I would have been okay to do it. Still I’d rather be at full health for it, to be honest. Mostly for the post-surgery. That day of full blindness still worries me, and I’d rather be feeling okay for when I have to go through that. So I’m still fine with the postponement. But I still don’t know when the new date will be. So for now, cross fingers that the new date will be soon.

Seeing as though I was feeling quite a bit better, I decided to head to the playground today. I hadn’t seen the goats in a week. Last Friday was a holiday, so Thursday was the last time I was there. Much too long to go without goats.

It turned out that I was not the only one who had been sick. Magnethe had been under the weather as well. In fact she had been very poorly and sluggish and non-responsive and not eating. Per told me that the vet had come around to see her. It was something wrong with her stomach, I’m not sure exactly what. I joked that perhaps she had gotten it from me. Seing as though I’m not a ruminant, he thought it was unlikely. What do I know, I’m not a vet!

But thankfully she was doing better. In fact, if Per hadn’t told me about it I don’t think I would have noticed anything. She was up and about and eating everything she could get her hooves on. So hopefully that’s all blown over. I don’t know what I would do if something were to happen to her too. She is the last remnant of The Better Days, when things were easy and happy at the playground.

But there is still happiness at the playground of course. Not least with Magnethe’s kids. Here is a video from today: youtube.com/watch?v=8D85IDueDys. They still enjoy the view from my back. And they are still so much fun. And so big now. But still not too big to be picked up.

Now I better be heading to bed. I have wasted a lot of time struggling with google this evening. They have introduced a new design. With a sidebar on the left. Which completely ruins the page for people with lower resolution screens. So that’s really a big bummer. I use google all the time. Now it has become very clunky and unhandy. It’s really bad news. And there’s no way to turn the sidebar off. I don’t think the design is live for everyone yet, so perhaps they are still testing it. Maybe they will realize that it needs to be optional. I have seen other people complaining about it. Seems there are plenty who find it annoying. But for me it’s more than annoying. It’s hindering the proper usage of the search engine. I really wish giant, multinational corporations would spend a little money and hire some visually disabled beta-testers. They could hire me, I’m available.

I’d just tell them to put goats all over the place, though.

Bad news. I am still sick. Worse than yesterday. My dad called the hospital today and they do not want to go through with the eye surgery on Thursday. So that is a bummer.

To be honest, the way I’m feeling right now I don’t think I am really up to full anesthesia surgery anyway. So I’m okay with that decision. But I just wonder how long I will have to wait now. I should get a letter in a couple of days with a new date. I just hope I won’t have to wait a month or two. That would make me quite sad. Ideally we could just postpone it to next week. But they are busy, of course. So we’ll see. Nothing to do but wait now. I have waited so long for this. It won’t kill me to wait a little longer. But I really just want to get on with it. So I can find out how my eyesight will be. And get on with my life.

Other than that I am feeling quite sickly. It’s just a common cold or flu or whatever, I’m sure. But lousy timing.

Oh well.

Happy Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with you.