The Smaller Portion is home again.
We have had an exhausting day wrestling with the bureaucracy at the hospital. It took just under five hours to get the discharge complete. In that time he had no pain killers. He was sent home with three different ones but has refused them all retiring to bed saying he is tired and in pain. I have no doubt he is.
They removed every second staple today (28 of them) and the community nurse will be around on Wednesday to take out the last of them. It is a very impressive scar and does a neat curl around his navel, looking as if the surgeon hiccuped and continued on.
He has been rejecting food which, while understandable, makes it difficult to know if the ileostomy is performing as it should.
All things being equal the hospital have given us a completely unreliable promise that the ileostomy will also be reversed in three months time. Keep your fingers crossed for us please.
He is vilely cantankerous and is taking it out on me. Since I am also very very tired and in pain we will see who snaps first. His sister is with us and, for the moment, he is treating her with charm - as he should.
Thank you again for your words of support. I am hoping that now he is home I can play in the blogosphere again - though I still have those bulbs to plant ..........
We have had an exhausting day wrestling with the bureaucracy at the hospital. It took just under five hours to get the discharge complete. In that time he had no pain killers. He was sent home with three different ones but has refused them all retiring to bed saying he is tired and in pain. I have no doubt he is.
They removed every second staple today (28 of them) and the community nurse will be around on Wednesday to take out the last of them. It is a very impressive scar and does a neat curl around his navel, looking as if the surgeon hiccuped and continued on.
He has been rejecting food which, while understandable, makes it difficult to know if the ileostomy is performing as it should.
All things being equal the hospital have given us a completely unreliable promise that the ileostomy will also be reversed in three months time. Keep your fingers crossed for us please.
He is vilely cantankerous and is taking it out on me. Since I am also very very tired and in pain we will see who snaps first. His sister is with us and, for the moment, he is treating her with charm - as he should.
Thank you again for your words of support. I am hoping that now he is home I can play in the blogosphere again - though I still have those bulbs to plant ..........
