February 2nd

The whole night we had thunderstorms and pouring with rain, so we’ll keep the invalids inside today. “Emily” had to stay sober for her 2^nd surgery today. And she received at 8.07 a.m. her “sleeping-injection”, whereafter we could check 5 minutes later the whole situation. First we have removed the old steel stitches, whereafter behind the eye-teeth a hole was drilled through the mandible.

With the help of a long straight needle a steel stitch (2/0) was brought through the drilled hole. At both sides of the drilled hole the gums was opened carefully, whereafter with a curved needle, passing under the gums, from the left side of the mandible the steel stitch was brought via the front side of the mandible to the right side. Hereafter the two ends were twisted together and cut short. The small twisted-together part was bended backwards and the gums-injury at the right side was stitched with 3 stitches (PSDII - 4/0). The left side could be closed with 2 stitches. Started at 8.19 a.m. and finished at 8.28 a.m. The mandible was fixed together at that moment !! We received a Greek visitor from Stípsi, who wants to help us with the translation from the English into Greek for our website; in between the squalls she was quickly showed around as well. At 2.45 p.m. the rain had changed into hail and sleet, and at 3.05 p.m. the Table-mount couldn’t be seen anymore due to a blizzard of real snow ! Towards 4 p.m. we had to take back cito-cito the disabled Long-legged Buzzard “Granny” from the buzzard-aviary: she was completely hypothermic and lethargic and so far “gone” that she refused to eat !! We wonder if she’ll survive this.