Feeling good
Feeling surprisingly okay. Very wobbly yesterday but lots of work to sort. Managed to take dog for short walks but lay down for an hour. I seem to suddenly get very tired in the afternoons. I can’t believe that the … Read More
Leaving Hospital Already
I feel so much better today! There’s no pain and while I’m feeling a bit sensitive I really am fine – thanks to barrier cream. Hospitals really should recommend moist toilet tissue and Sudocrem for bowel prep 🙂 . I wasn’t expecting my bowel to do anything on 2 tiny boxes … Read More
Hospital Check In
No solid food all day but at least I didn’t have to panic during the car journey 🙂 2 sachets of Picolax greeted me on the hospital ward. Surprisingly I feel fine after a day without food – I’ve just … Read More
Picolax and Bowel Prep Day 1
I’m finding bowel prep a bit stressful because I’m not quite sure how Picolax is likely to affect me nor exactly what I’m supposed to eat. Different people at the hospital have told me different things: the pre-op doc thought … Read More
Pre-op checks
Blood test. Hospitals like those. Yet another person telling me, ‘So you’re diabetic’. ‘No I’m not but my blood sugar does get low at times’. The pre-op nurse takes the blood sugar issue surprisingly seriously. They recently had a patient … Read More
Lymphoma Monitoring appointment
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Routine appointment for Husband. Except there’s nothing routine about something that effectively tries to guess what the cancer is doing. I would say if the cancer is sleeping or not but that’s not evil enough – it’s lurking, we just … Read More
Examination under anaesthesia – EUA
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The consultant pops in. He perches on the bed to explain that they have 16 patients in for investigations this morning so they’ll be working on a team basis, with 2 theatres working in tandem with each consultant examining the … Read More
Off to hospital
Husband drives me to hospital. It’s next door to the University I did my degree and ultimately my PhD. I wasn’t prepared for how emotional I’d feel about going back. It took me 10 minutes in the car park and … Read More
You’ve got a letter
‘You’ve got a letter’. We’re getting good at recognising hospital letters. Consultant has referred me to super consultant. Super consultant has discussed the scans etc in the MDT (multi disciplinary meeting as we now know) and the consensus was ‘Hmmm’. … Read More
After the mole removal
The first couple of days required a bit of adjustment. I couldn’t drive because I couldn’t rest my back against a seat or twist it. The triangular pillow I bought for Husband was awesome in keeping my lower back away … Read More