Monday 1st. September

Today has been a bit of a blur, truth be told. The news (that I will expand on in a minute) is that Jill has an obstruction in her bowel....and will be having surgery this evening to "sort it out". The two surgeons on duty tonight are both bowel specialists....so, if you wanted a bowel operation then this evening is probably as good an evening as you could pick. Jokes aside, we are in good hands here, and have been since we arrived back again just after lunch.

Since yesterday's blog we have had a not so good night....I have to admit that all I know is that every time I woke up jill wasn't in bed. It transpires that she spent most of the night either pacing or doing exercises in an attempt to "get things moving". Anyway....by lunchtime I had seen enough, and after a conversation with KG at the hospital, I brought Jill back to,town....to say that she was uncomfortable will probably get me a whack when she next reads this....she was in pain for sure. So we were back in the ward and back on the drugs....Tom always has a saying " never turn down free drugs" and Jill wasn't saying no to anything....I left her at 6 and expected her to have the relaxed and pain free night that was predicted by the ward doctors.....only to get a call at 730 to say that they had done more X-rays and had identified an obstruction...and that theatre was probably needed this evening. I came back down, and as I type she is plugged in to two drips...and has "other pipes" plugged in....I'm not expanding further...you can guess. She's in a little less pain now...and the results of the CT scan that they did just an hour ago have just come back. The surgeons are looking at it as I type and we expect them back in the room soon.....after which I currently expect them to take Jill for the operation. The CT will hopefully have shown up exactly what the problem is, and aid the surgeons to get to the problem with the least amount of effort...

So there we are...at the moment Jilly is a little more comfortable....but should the pain increase they will just up the drugs...this evening WILL be better.



The news is that there apparently isn't an obstruction that the CT scan can see....confusion....but the Ct is better than the X-ray so they have to go with the CT I suppose....they're still deciding. The other option now is to put a drain in...something the scan does show is a lot of fluid from last weeks operation. It seems they may try to relive the pressure by draining off what they can and then see what happens.....we wait to see....either way it doesn't now look like they will operate immediately.

The doctor has just been back to say that the drain goes in during the next half hour...not sure if that's here in the room or elsewhere....either way...the decision seems to have been made. Jill has just told me that she hopes I'm not being quite so light hearted with the blog this evening....and then we all suddenly remembered that I haven't given her the injection this evening....luckily Jill's clever husband has remembered to bring the injections from home... If she's rude again I might just accidentally do something painful...

We've just been told no injection....the drug that I give Jill every evening is a blood thinner...and the last thing the surgeons need in a minute will be thin blood....anyway, I can't practice my nurses skills again today.

The battery on this iPad is at 5per cent....Jill hasn't gone up the corridor yet...she's drifting off into sleep (which is great.....not much sleeping done recently) and I think I better press the send button soon...otherwise the battery may go completely and then this post will never get to our reader.

I think I will take Bex home and wait for a call....I expect that Jill be asleep afterwards, regardless if what happens....so more tomorrow....I'll post early so people can know what's happened.



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