Just wanted to wish you well with your op tomorrow and say I will be thinking about you :-x
Will do in a sec Maggie.
Chickengrandpa just came and brought some lovely rude funny cards. Thank you very much ladies (and perhaps even a man) for taking the time to send them. They really cheered me up.
How long do these medical peeps work? There's a young German doctor (calls everyone darling) and says she likes my sense of humour. She was the one who spotted that one lung didn't sound the same as the other one and insisted, even after the ecg showed nothing, the lung xray showed nothing that I still needed a cat scan. She seems to live here and is here at nearly midnight and here first thing in the morning. She's the one that was called at my pre assessment when the nurse couldn't get any blood.
Thank you.:-x :-x
Ah well rc, I didn't want to cause jealousy among all the ladies on here if I'd told them it was you, but I wanted you to know I appreciated it. Thank you.
Before I opened your card capt. I though to myself 'This would be apt to send to capt.' :^O
Hello ladies, it's all go isn't it!!! Only just got on here today. Thanks, have replied rainy.:-D
Gaurdpig, I found out, she's the house doctor and does actually live in the basement!!!:O
It's still busy here. There are only 10 patients in at the moment so the nurse said last night that I'd be doing her a favour to bleep her and ask her to put the kettle on. What could I do??? It's a good job I was awake all night again or I would have had to ask for an alarm call!
The head physio lady came this morning. She brought me a pair of crutches and we went for a walk in the hall. She gave me a strap thing to put round my foot to lift it onto the bed. She said it doesn't matter about the pain, I must just remember it's not doing any damage.;\ Oh right, that's ok then. It doesn't look like I'm going home today. Son was here for a couple of hours this morning. They asked him if he wanted coffee and he said yes, then it was half an hour before they brought it and he was in a hurry to goLOL
They finally took out my canular, after flushing it out three times a day since Thursday. They never used it again anyway. The doc took blood this morning and explained in her german/Russian/South African accent, that when she's taken it she has to run away quick because it is starting to clot straight away and she has to get it in the machine quickly. She came back later and said it was going up (I think) which was good and she will tell the consultant.
Well, that's this morning's happenings so far. Ooh, and I've had my feet washed!!! My sock things (to stop clots, which obviously don't work) keep rolling down my bad leg and causing a torniquet because my knee is so swollen, but then again, so is my thigh, hip and backside!! I'm really lop-sided!!:^O
I don't know about home yet, depends on the bloods.:|
Here's lunch, gotta go!:-D
I know it's upside down, either enlarge it or stand on your head!;-)
Thanks huggles, I'll try and remember that.
The surgeon just came to my room, closed the curtains and pulled my pants down. That's ok, we're friends. LOL He said the red, raised, itchy rash on my thigh, hip and buttock is just in the shape of the cover thing, I forget what he called it, but someone earlier called it a sheet with a hole, well they use adhesive to hold it in place and it's caused a reaction. He said I don't do things by halves do I.:-(
yoo hoo CG, glad you have had a wee walkie, but I think like the others ^^^^^ you must ask for stronger painkillers. Physio will say that it's not bad having the pain etc, but it still needs reducing!! don't suffer pain, you don't need to.
wow! your lunch was very well presented, the veg looked lovely. there's the difference between private and NHS....
