well ......... I'm sat at me desk in front of me screens ......
(for now - anyway)
managed to get meself let out Friday evening, against the better judgement of both the medics
and myself (TBH)
.....
but Pam was losing the plot and needed me home --
she'd not driven the car in nigh on 6 months and having not only had to drive me to A&E last Sunday evening with me in a heap in the passenger footwell, had stayed with me 'til they got me onto a ward, early hours of Monday morning and hooked up to a morphine line and a couple of others, she's also been back and forth the rest of the week, doing battle with Hereford's traffic.
They'd been cutting / baling all the fields around us all day Thursday and half the night, with lights shining and flashing across the house and windows and shooting anything that moved out there too ...
she was a bit 'strung out' Friday when she arrived, full of hope I'd be here for the w/end.
Had already discussed the situation with the medics and they'd agreed to give me a weekend (ish) 'pass' - if they could get:- all my ob.s stable, bloods where they wanted them, me feeling
'ok', all the paperwork sorted and a bagful of meds/antibiotics/painkillers & morphine to bring home so's I could self medicate and maintain the regime. AND I swore to return next week, (as long as I didn't need to 'tear arse' back before then)
.
Surgeon fella had told me Friday morning I'd got a 'time bomb' lodged in my bile duct between my gall bladder and pancreas in the shape of a stone that'd block my pancreatic duct again if it moved and was booking me in for some form of endoscopic procedure Wednesday - camera in through the nose, navigate my intestines to a point they could enter the billiarly gland, gall bladder and then the bile duct to grab it and extract it, 'fore it got loose and induced pancreatitis for yet another (4th) time.
Reckoned I'd done very well to survive three bouts - might not be so lucky/such a tough ol' bast**d to handle another in quick succession -- so got a 'date', Wednesday morning with him doing his
robotic remote camera/manipulator operator bit
-- I sincerely hope knows his sh1t!!!
Advantage of being home, aside from having a much calmer, happier wife, is our own larder/freezers/fluid stocks AND
hooooome cooking menu, on tap
-- makes for a hugely improved recovery
-- been nice to have been able to bring the hospital bed with me though - so comfy/adjustable.
temps have been a bitch though ... sat in a sun lounger, outside, Friday night 'til gone midnight in 28C ......33C yesterday, dropping to the same 28C for most of the night ... 31C ATM - 28 at 08.00 this morning
three fans follow us around the house with all windows / doors wide open to catch what little breeze there is
'guts' have started to function with reasonable normality again today, with some 'monumental'
out puts and the appetite is getting better all the time with whatever I can think of to tempt it into action - makes such a difference instead of looking at some pretty 'limp'
presentations to try and tempt you.
And I have caught up on a lot of sleep - albeit spasmodically, but sleep, all the same
So - camera job Wednesday ---
long conversations with my Lysosomal Storage Disorders consultant in Cardiff tomorrow -
Hereford's guys have been talking to him a lot this week - they want to take my Gall bladder out -
he's said for years/a decade plus, he can't guarantee it won't affect the efficacy of how me 'hamster juice' works -
suddenly this week, he's changed his story, with Hereford's guys ?
He's going to have to convince me --- they can't put it back
If he can come up with convincing evidence to corroborate his change of stance -
's next on the list, so'll be a couple more days in Hereford General
IF it's right - it could make a big difference to the way I live/have to live, my life ???
--
would love to be able to have a poached egg on toast again
loads of folk live happily without the gall bladder (it's an
almost, semi-vestigial organ )
--
but emphasis on
LIVE - I need my Hamster Juice to work, to do that !!!
Many thanks for all you responses to my phone based efforts, from C3 on Frome ward
too - helped considerably
very kind offer Bob - Serge has been over to see me several times from Ross and 'brought supplies'
LOL -- same old Nokia 635 Gavin - was just a bit more determined
-- bloody slow though and total lack of facilities
the only thing I'll need for most of it Dermot, is a long hose and a big bottle of propane to feed the flame wand ..... 's all looking pretty
'scorched earth' already
appetite is improving hourly Dan ...
Friday's canteen brekky kicked it off - eat where the troops eat, is my philosophy in hospitals -
but, good as it was, it's got a long way to go to beat Pam's cooking ...
awesome 'clone' yesterday morning, here - same again this morning with a nice Panini instead of the toast - spectacular tea last night and looking forward to Fuesselli and meatballs in tommy sauce very shortly - very VERY shortly
as for the rotary - I assume you mean for the hose reel - may have to wait a little longer - got a few '
more pressing' things to sort first
Now .......... WTF has been making 390 new posts -- 's gonna take me weeks to catch up ????????
