Enjoyable ways to spend a Saturday

Let's start by saying that today hasn't been a normal Saturday....well, not normal for normal people. Jill was pretty uncomfortable yesterday evening and announced, at about 22:00, that she was "fed up" with her stomach, and wasn't going to pass the weekend without "sorting things out". So....this morning we got to it, calling Hospice, calling the doctor, speaking to the District Nurse, visiting the doctor at his surgery.....and then the inevitable regular week end booking at A&E. So....after a good couple of hours "downstairs", here we are now ....on Rayner Ward. I thought we'd been banned from this particular ward, but it appears not. They seemed pleased to see us...or maybe it was A&E that were just pleased to move us out!

How long is it since Jill's last post? A couple of days for sure.... actually Tuesday (!!!).....where did those 4 days go? The long and short is that, slowly, Jill's breathing has been getting easier....and her "tummy issues" (let's just leave it at that shall we?) have been quietly getting less easy. I say quietly because, much to Jill's annoyance, there's been very little action (or noise) from her "lower stomach areas"!. I think it's fair to say that we hadn't realised how many different types of laxative there are....or quite how many different ways there are for laxatives to work! We are now officially the Islands leading experts .... or Jill is anyway! Not that any of them have done any good....it would appear that Jill had so much fluid in and around her stomach/abdomen area that nothing was going to get past. The pressure from all the fluid was the issue....basically squashing everything else to the point that things were starting to stop working...if you get my drift.

The stomach issues are not dissimilar to the problems we had post operation back in July 2014...almost to the day! Our reader may remember that back then Jill had a pretty major operation (2 surgeons at the same time) to try to remove tumours from her stomach/abdomen. A dodgy lymph node was gripping so hard to the blood vessel that fed one of her kidneys .... so it was partially left in place. In short, that node then pumped huge amounts of lymph fluid into Jill's abdomen...resulting in an effect not too dissimilar to what we have today. 2014 was far more painful, but 2018 is resulting in similar, less painful, outcomes. As in 2014, a drain has been put in...much relief all round...and Jill already feeling better.

The drain has actually worked so well they've already had to clamp it. In less than three quarters of an hour they've taken 2.3ish litres....too much too quick ..... (wasn't "Too much, too young" a Specials song title?...sorry, I'm going off on pop song titles again). Anyway, the drain is currently switched off.

Last night was quiet. Tom flew off to Luton at 23:10....yes, just before midnight! Easyjet had delays, but then it did sound like the thunderstorms had a major effect on travellers using "trains and boats and planes" (sorry, couldn't resist that...I'm such a big Burt Bacharach fan)....at least Tom got there eventually. Jack was on nights at the Fire Station, and Dan was staying (a long planned overnighter in the Customs Hut) at the Ecrehous. All in all not quite as many people in the house as normal.

Right...latest update....doctor says we should be "good to go" home quite soon....but there's a little procedure that has to be done first. Then back to hospital tomorrow for some more fluid to be taken out. The Doctor and nurses had originally said that they wanted Jill to stay in overnight, but have relented after realising that tomorrow is her birthday. That means we can have a birthday brunch at home and then party on down to the hospital for another couple of hours on the wards! As I said in a recent blog...you can't say they we don't know how to enjoy ourselves!

More soon reader......







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