DAYS 105 AND 106

I didn't write the blog last night because I was too tired and this morning had to get my friend to the ferry early so I decided to write 2 days tonight.
Yesterday we went to the hospital en masse, Andrea, Martin, Emily, Adam, my friend Kath and myself. Obviously we didn't all pile in together and we only stayed a couple of hours so as not to wear David out. It was an interesting visit. David had not had much sleep overnight because the ward had been very busy and they were short staffed so there was a lot of rushing about. Apart from looking a bit tired he was doing well. During our visit there was a kerfuffle in one of the bay wards and all of the nursing staff went running. Then we saw a nurse hurrying in with a blood sugar testing kit followed by an empty bed being brought from another bay. The next thing we saw was a man who had been visiting his wife on the bed, looking very grey, being hurried along the corridor. Things quietened down a bit after that. The woman who had been in the next bed to David had been moved at midnight the night before and then the bed space was sanitised and the curtains and everything removed and replaced. No information was forthcoming. As I said we didn't stay too long before bidding David goodnight.
Today I visited on my own. I had had a text from David early this morning to say he had managed to walk along the corridor and use the bathroom. Progress indeed. When I got there he looked absolutely great, bright eyed and a much better colour in his face. He had had the oxygen supply removed and was breathing unaided and he had only needed to use the strong pain relief 3 times through the night. He still had the chest and stomach drains in place but he only had the nourishment feeding through the line into his body. Just after I got there a porter appeared to take him for an xray. David looked like the cat who got the cream when he was told he could be transported in a chair instead of in his bed.I took this opportunity to go for some lunch. He had not been given the result at the end of visiting time so I don't yet know the outcome. When I went to lunch I met the husband of the lady who had disappeared at midnight and I asked him what had happened and he said she had been moved to an isolation area. He said nobody was saying very much which lead him to believe that she had MRSA. Later in the afternoon I saw him again but this time he was wearing a great big grin because she had been cleared of any bug and he said they had in fact been testing for C Dificile. After that I saw the wife of the man who had been rushed away the day before and she was in a wheelchair being taken to the ward he must have been admitted to after his collapse. It was like being in an episode of Casualty.
Anyway back to David. On Wednesday morning he is in fact going for a barium swallow, not a scan, to check on the leakage. All of the up to date information will be considered at a team meeting on Wednesday and we will then find out what happens next.
The time we spent together today was very pleasant and it was so good to see him looking as though he is truly on the mend.
I got to the ferry terminal at 7.20 in plenty of time to catch the 7.45 red jet. I sat in a comfortable chair in the waiting room and woke up at 7.44. I didn't know I could move as fast as I did down the ramp as they were closing the gate.
That's all folks.