DAY 100

Another day of excitement and alarms. When we arrived at the hospital today at around 2pm we found David with a pulse rate above 160 and low blood pressure again. He needed to have the drug to bring the pulse rate down but the nurse could not find a vein in his left arm to insert a canular. In the end she had to put one into his right hand and move the lines from the one in his right arm to the hand so that the drug could go into the vein in his arm. Once that was done he needed to go to theatre to have a drain put into his lung. When he came back the bag was already full to bursting with fluid and had to be changed immediately and then just as quickly the next bag filled up and third bag started filling. Soon after that he said he could feel the anaesthetic wearing off and he was suddenly in great pain which he told me on a scale of 1 to 10 rated 10. The poor sould was in agony. A doctor came to see him and said the nurses would come and move him to a more comforatable position and adjust his morphine so that he could administer a higher dose. Another doctor told him that his body would adjust to the pain fairly quickly. After about 30 minutes he became more comfortable in slighly less pain and when we left him he was much more stable.