[speaker001:] I'm, I'm in before the doctor! [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] . Aye. Thought they'd lost you there.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Well now, what can I do for you tonight?
[speaker001:] Er it's an insurance line doctor. Just to keep me right. It's my thumb.... That's the excuse I've been giving, and
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] that's the one I'm sticking to.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]... How're things doing?
[speaker001:] Alex has not been too well the last couple of days, you know.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Doctor was in this morning.
[speaker002:] Mm.
[speaker001:] Er... but I, as I say, there's nothing that anybody can do really
[speaker002:] No, it's
[speaker001:] you know?
[speaker002:] just a matter of time.
[speaker001:] I meant to phone up this morning for an appointment for Doctor, but I forgot all about it.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] I really did, of course she was... the nurse came in, first it was... the doctor,
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] then it was the priest, then it was another nurse, then the priest and she was getting a bit
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] agitated, everybody coming in to see everybody.
[speaker002:] She'll be up the pole.
[speaker001:] Aye. Agitated, you know. Oh, I wish they'd all bloody leave me alone. say something like that, oh no.
[speaker002:] Och aye. Och aye. You must, I mean she
[speaker001:] She's no more medicine left.
[speaker002:] She's no medicine left?
[speaker001:] No, not the stuff that you gave her anyway.
[speaker002:] Right.... That's... and she knows, she knows perfectly well what's... what's happening. I mean she's not stupid. Och aye.
[speaker001:] Do you really think so Doctor?
[speaker002:] She's not stupid. I mean she's lived long enough, she's seen it all.
[speaker001:] Aye..
[speaker002:] She's seen it all before. And they, they get very very quickly suspicious when, you know, when the nurse is coming in and the priest's coming in and the doctor's coming in. They're not so daft. We don't, we don't give them much credit
[speaker001:] No, well.
[speaker002:] but they're not... they're not so stupid.
[speaker001:] Well, as soon as the doctor mentioned hospital, she was awfully upset.
[speaker002:] Who d who mentioned the hospital?
[speaker001:] The doctor.
[speaker002:] Did he?
[speaker001:] Actually, she had mentioned it herself first.
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] She said, er er no, I think it was the doctor actually mentioned hospital. I see you've been to the hospital, or something like that. You know?
[speaker002:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] With the records.
[speaker002:] Aye.
[speaker001:] Oh, I'm not going back, I'm not going back there. After that she was awfully upset. So I mean that day we had to tell a lot of lies, you know, like that.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] No, the doctor just meant that er y you were at the hospital,
[speaker002:] That's right.
[speaker001:] you've not to go back yet. Oh, just wait till it comes and see what happens.
[speaker002:] Aye, just
[speaker001:] The doctor said something about a tube in her to stop the, to stop what was it now, the doctor said there's a tube, they put a tube in her... and they don't
[speaker002:] Try and ease the swallowing?
[speaker001:] Aye, it's something about the jaundice.
[speaker002:] And it, it would ease the jaundice as well.
[speaker001:] Aye.
[speaker002:] It's... it won't, it won't er
[speaker001:] No, he says it's
[speaker002:] it won't stay like that.
[speaker001:] No.
[speaker002:] It won't stay like that. What, what they did was they took er... on, on the inside, there's er... there's the liver, in there er just at the end of the stomach. And what they did was they put a tube from here into the next bit of the stomach, that comes round from underneath there, put a tube across there
[speaker001:] Ah, right.
[speaker002:] so they didn't have to go through this bit
[speaker001:] Aha.
[speaker002:] because that bit's all... full
[speaker001:] Right, right.
[speaker002:] you know? So they put a tube across there. So the stuff coming down, goes through there and then it goes into the rest of the tubes, and away through.... But that will last for... a certain length of time,
[speaker001:] Aha.
[speaker002:] until this grows... down past that bit. Or up over the top of that bit.
[speaker001:] Ah, I see.
[speaker002:] Or it pushes the tube out of shape.
[speaker001:] Aha. Aha.
[speaker002:] Sometimes bends the tube round about.
[speaker001:] Aye.
[speaker002:] But... I mean it might take another two weeks, it might take another two months. You can never tell. But
[speaker001:] Aye. Right. Aha. Aha.
[speaker002:] I mean she'll just gradually, because this bit between here and the stomach is the bit that most of the food gets digested in,
[speaker001:] Aye.
[speaker002:] she'll not have much of an appetite, because that bit's not working properly, and it's not getting a chance to go through her