I found out yesterday that the surgery has been postponed again and they did not have a new date for me.
The issue has been a staffing one. Specifically, they are short perfusionists (the person who operates the heart and lung machine) and could only do emergency surgeries so as not to burn out the few they have. This is apparently a nationwide issue, but Alberta has been removing investment in the healthcare system and so the wages are not competitive.
They couldn't give me a timeline yesterday, because I assume it would be difficult to predict how long a search would take.
Anyway, I was informed today of the new date which is October 29th. You will notice this is literally one month after the original date.
I feel confident in this date.
But who knows? We will just hope for the best.
In the meantime, I will look for things to pass the next three weeks.
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