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Had to go back on Monday for a PET Scan. The machine that rotates around the body to look for cancer but also makes you radioactive for a week.

I had to twiddle my thumbs for 9 hours waiting for all her appointments and the scan. This is a schlep but we decided to book a hotel for 3 days for the results instead of travelling back to Viana and back again for the results.

The results were good as she has no cancer outside of her throat soft palate. So it has not spread and we were elated. Thank God.

This is getting very expensive with all the travelling and hotel costs and we have now decided to rent a holiday home for 5 weeks in Porto near the hospital. So we will be paying our normal rent for our home plus the extravagant holiday home. But I have to do it to be near my wife during her treatment.

Just a tip to those travelling. Next to our hotel was a MASSIVE mall with a food court that skriks for niks. Must be about 30 food stalls with a common seating area. We ordered fried fish chips and a salad for €4.5 and were given a single portion of fish with a few chips and some salad.

I then noticed a man next to me at the table with 2 portions of fish and double my chips so I asked him what price he paid for it. He paid the same as we did and told us that he is a regular as most are and tourists are ripped off as they only visit once.

This also happens when you go to a pub for a beer. If you are local, you pay less. 




 

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What a great site for info. Thanks JSE. I am stunned that this was not seen before.

SA stocks and the rand has been resilient so far and when one looks at what happened to Brazil when they went into junk status, it is not so bad. The REAL increased by 25%  over 1 year against the USD. Same politic problems. So hang in there.

783 is as good as gone. No doubt. The people of the country will drive him out if the NEC does not. I foresee mass protests as from tomorrow while 783 is having diarrhea with worry about his soon to be empty piggy bank.

Just when I thought I was coining it with the FX now this. I am going on the Vodka Diet. Loose 3 days in 1 week.

The pair is USD/ZAR so the first currency in the pair is USD. The action of the candle reflects the first mentioned currency and in this case it was a long red candle that shows the USD had weakened against the ZAR.
Had it been ZAR/USD then the candle would have been in the opposite direction (up) and green showing the ZAR had strengthened.

This is the closing price of USD/ZAR on FXCM. Wonder why this happened.

I am very impressed with the gov oncology hospital here in Porto. This is a massive hospital that has to cater to 3 million people.
They have a kiosk at the main entrance where you put your state health card into and it spits out a detailed info of where you have to go and there are volunteers that are on hand to help.

They helped my wife by holding her arm and led her through the maze of passages to get to the correct place. How sweet of them I thought. Strangely the locals were not offered this assistance.

We had 6 different departments to go through for blood tests, x-rays, ecg scans etc in this maze of passages and I never thought I would ever find my way out ever.

In every dept there is a TV and on the side is the number of the next patient to enter. We were lucky and somewhat embarrassed as each dept nurse insisted to show my wife to the next location consultation dept and she was immediately called in ahead of the locals.
I can only assume that the Dr or nurse wanted to practice English.