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Archive for 12/02/2007
UPDATE ON MUM
12/02/2007 by Ted.
EVENING OF 12TH FEBRUARY 2007.
TODAY ALISON AND YSABEL CAME FROM EDINBURGH TO VISIT MUM.
SPOKE TO THE HOSPITAL THIS MORNING AND WAS TOLD THAT THEY WERE WEENING MUM OFF THE OXYGEN TODAY TO PREPARE HER FOR HER RETURN TO ST. GEORGE’S. AT VISITING THIS AFTERNOON ALL OXYGEN SUPPORT HAD BEEN WITHDRAWN AND MUM WAS SITTING IN HER CHAIR BREATHING COMFORTABLY. HOWEVER THE REALISATION THAT OXYGEN WOULD NOT BE AVAILABLE DURING THE NIGHT HOURS DISTRESSED HER AS LAST NIGHT SHE SLEPT LITTLE AND HAD BEEN VERY BREATHLESS. OXYGEN HAD RELIEVED THE BREATHLESSNESS. AFTER REPRESENTATIONS TO THE NURSING STAFF OXYGEN AVAILABILITY HAS BEEN RESTORED FOR THE NIGHT HOURS.
WE HAD NEWS OF THE ULTRASOUND SCAN OF HER DISTENDED STOMACH TODAY. THE FORM HAS BEEN SUBMITTED AND THE SCAN SHOULD TAKE PLACE DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS. THE RESULT OF THE SCAN WILL THEN BE DISCUSSED WITH MUM - AND I HOPE ME - AND A DECISION WILL THEN BE MADE ON WHETHER TO TAKE ANY ACTION TO REMOVE HE MASS. THE NURSING STAFF FEEL THAT, WHATEVER THE RESULT OF THE SCAN, SURGERY WOULD BE TOO DANGEROUS, BUT AT THIS STAGE MUM IS INSISTENT THAT SURGERY SHOULD GO AHEAD EVEN THOUGH SHE MAY NOT COME THROUGH THE OPERATION. THIS IS TEMPERED BY THE REALISATION OF THE DISCOMFORT SHE WOULD EXPERIENCE RECOVERING FROM A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION.
TODAY, ALSO, HER LEGS ARE VERY SWOLLEN AND PAINFUL. THE PHYSIOTHERAPIST WALKED HER AROUND THE WARD, AND DURING THE DAY SHE HAD HER FEET RESTING ON A STOOL, BUT THE SWELLING AND PAIN WERE STILL THERE TONIGHT.
iN HERSELF SHE IS SUBDUED, BUT AT THE END OF VISITING SHE WAS NOT TIRED AS SHE WAS YESTERDAY. SHE IS STILL LOOKING FORWARD TO RETURNING TO ST. GEORGE’S THOUGH SHE DOES NOT BELIEVE SHE WILL DO SO. BECAUSE OF THE DISCOMFORT SHE IS EXPERIENCING ON ACCOUNT OF HER HEART AND THE DISTENDED STOMACH HER PREFERRED OPTION IS TO EXPIRE QUIETLY WHILST UNDERGOING SURGERY AND PASS INTO THE NEXT PHASE OF HER LIFE. BUT SHE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE WAY SHE GOES IS NOT UNDER HER OWN POWER BUT OF THE LORD.
SHE SENDS HER LOVE TO YOU ALL AND THANKS YOU FOR YOUR LOVE AND CONCERN.
TED.
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alan
12/02/2007 by alan m.
finding it very hard to come to terms and visit being so close to where i lost gwen who i loved so much but i am going to call in tomorrow also i spoke to mary cunningham yesterday and she did not know pru was in hospital anyway she asked me to send her kindest regards
regards alan
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