Crikey, best of luck with the procedure, these things are done everyday now, easy peasy they say.
Look after yourself and I hope you can still have a decent Xmas.
And sure maybe you’ll be back in the taxi, maybe signing up to a dirty dispatcher because you can get some good work off all of them. Some don’t require uniforms or stickers etc etc and you can still work as you wish to.
All I can suggest to you is not take everything so seriously and start the “if you can’t beat them, join them”
No point in you being at a legal rank when drivers are at an illegal rank across the road from you and you getting stressed about it, just join them, fuk it, life is too short
BTW, are you in the Mater private or public?