Mum Update and B**tard Hackers

So, we went though to see my mum last night, and she's in decent shape for now. Her doctors really don't sound like they're got a bloody clue what's wrong with her. They're sure that her Gall Bladder will need to be removed, but they're also sure that it's not the Gall Bladder which is causing her nausea and vomiting, difficulty swallowing and apparent blood loss. They are also sure that whatever is wrong is quite serious, but they just don't seem to know what it is.

She saw her Surgeon on Wednesday who told that they would definitely be taking her Gall Bladder out today, and they would infuse her with two pints of blood to bring her levels up to a safe point for the operation. However, during the day yesterday, she was told by a member of her surgeon's team that they wouldn't be taking the Gall Bladder out now, and instead are going to perform a Colonoscopy and Endoscopy this morning, basically so that they can have a look and see what's going on inside her.

She was also told that if they do find anything that shouldn't be there - tumours, ulcers, etc., they won't be doing anything about them yet, but will instead take biopsies or samples, get tests done on them, and then let her know in 10 days or so what the results are.

So, to recap - she's getting a double-oscopy this morning, which may or may not find something sinister, at which point they may or may not decide to keep her in or let her go home.

*sigh*

Also, I got home on Wednesday night to find an email from Blizzard informing me that my account had been suspended due to activites which led them to believe that my account had been compromised. I check the Armoury quickly, and only one of my three level 70 characters is on there - that may mean that my other two have been deleted, or that they've been transferred to different servers and had their names changed - and he's naked. I've not logged into WoW yet, as I plan to reformat my PC completely, so I'm backing the data up just now.

My PC is zipped up tight, with all relevant patches, AVG and Zonealarm Pro running contstantly, so I'm stumped as to how I got infected. In the past, I've scorned people who have been hacked, and blamed it on their own stupidity and/or complacency - maybe it's just Karma coming round to bite me on the ass.