Diary of a Saasy Girl

In projects, sometimes things blow up and go past a safe level of mitigation and escalates into crisis management. What that exactly is will always depend on each project and the propensity of risk that the sponsors are willing to take.  In terms of story telling, and especially the Ted Talk: Hero Journey  by Matthew Winkler, (thanks Francis Pindar  for sharing), then a crisis point will hit the Hero. This is the lowest part of their story, something they must overcome before they can rebuild and come back out fighting in order to win the day.  Why I am bothering to tell you this? Well, this is where I am at, and how I am feeling right now. I'll explain.  Last Friday I had to go back into hospital for more surgery. Active cancer cells were found in one of the lymph nodes that were removed from the previous procedure and medical protocol stated that a full clearance of lymph nodes was needed to be done to stop any future spread.  The positive spin from all this is that, the cells we

Hello reader, if you remember from last time I was about to head off to hospital for my operation. Let me pick up from there.   The first stop was to the Outpatients where I had guide-wires fitted. The process was via Ultrasound to identify the original marker clips that were inserted at the Breast Clinic back in March. Then, once found an injection was used to push a wire into my breast, and a separate one into the main lymph node, which would act as a guide for the Surgeon to find the main spots to cut out; a guide-wire. I literally had wires sticking out of my body. I couldn’t see them due to the angle, or feel them, thanks to local anesthetic, and I was then padded up so I couldn’t knock them either. A quick Mammogram to take pictures of the Doctor's fine work and that was phase one completed.   I shuffled around the corner to the main hospital and checked into my room for the night.  (Do you check into a private hospital?)  A few hours later I wandered down to the operating th