We're home. After a nightmare four and a half hour Friday afternoon journey. We were both knackered. But we're home and that's what matters.
We did have a bit of a hiccup last night and thought we might not get out of the place. We were downstairs in the hospital having a Costa coffee and all of a sudden Mark couldn't breath properly and his chest hurt. We hot footed back up to the ward, put him on the bed. I suggested calling a nurse but he didn't want to straight away. Five minutes later when he hadn't improved he thought it was a good idea. The Sister put him on oxygen, checked his blood pressure, which wasn't too bad and put a call in for the Doctor.
It took an hour and half before the Doc came. Long explanation from Mark and the Doc ordered an ECG for that evening - it was after 10pm by this time and Mark's breathing had calmed down a bit. So we settled down to watch a movie thinking it could be more than an hour before they came and did the ECG. And it was!!
Anyway the long and short of it, it was OK and they couldn't think what could have caused it so they've basically just put it aside.
It took hours to get discharged, what a protracted system and the worst bit, a Doctor, not just any Doctor but has to be senior Doctor, has to sign the discharge and when the Nurse went to find him to sign it he'd gone into theatre - bugger - he could be there for hours......... and he was!!
I hope the next update will have some positive news on how Marks pain is really settling down, it definitely isn't the same as it was, it's different but not good yet, so sadly I can't report that it's all good yet.
We did have a bit of a hiccup last night and thought we might not get out of the place. We were downstairs in the hospital having a Costa coffee and all of a sudden Mark couldn't breath properly and his chest hurt. We hot footed back up to the ward, put him on the bed. I suggested calling a nurse but he didn't want to straight away. Five minutes later when he hadn't improved he thought it was a good idea. The Sister put him on oxygen, checked his blood pressure, which wasn't too bad and put a call in for the Doctor.
It took an hour and half before the Doc came. Long explanation from Mark and the Doc ordered an ECG for that evening - it was after 10pm by this time and Mark's breathing had calmed down a bit. So we settled down to watch a movie thinking it could be more than an hour before they came and did the ECG. And it was!!
Anyway the long and short of it, it was OK and they couldn't think what could have caused it so they've basically just put it aside.
It took hours to get discharged, what a protracted system and the worst bit, a Doctor, not just any Doctor but has to be senior Doctor, has to sign the discharge and when the Nurse went to find him to sign it he'd gone into theatre - bugger - he could be there for hours......... and he was!!
I hope the next update will have some positive news on how Marks pain is really settling down, it definitely isn't the same as it was, it's different but not good yet, so sadly I can't report that it's all good yet.
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