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Thanks for the birthday wishes.
It was an eventful birthday: Sylvia, a diabetic, has an ulcerated big toe that the doctors cannot heal-up.
It's on the underside of her toe, so unless she put on clean socks daily, not allowing the insole of her shoe to contact the ulcer, it becomes infected.
The infection goes into her foot, then into her leg, which becomes swollen and purple.
Yesterday the leg was really bad, so I drove her to the doctor, who said there was a stench from the toe, and he was worried aboiut gangrene.
As we live 50 kms from the nearest big hospital, he said that it would be quicker if I drove her to the emergency dept at Ipswich General, than calling an ambulance, which would have to travel the 50 kms to get there, before taking her back again.

WELL. The emergency entrance is guarded by armed security guards and a team of nurses, to keep covid patients out - they have to go to a special Fever Entrance.
They aimed a thermometer at her head, and the infection had given her a fever, which is a covid-like symptom, so she was taken by one of the guards to the fever entrance, and I was not allowed in, so I drove the 50 kms back home.

The infection is in her toe bone, so the toe must come off, which they will do today.