14/02/2007 by Ted.

MUM LOOKED BETTER TODAY.  SHE HAS SLEPT FOR MOST OF THE DAY AND HAS RECOVERED FROM HER NIGHT BROKEN BY BREATHLESSNESS.  ALTHOUGH THE WARD SISTER TOLD ME THIS MORNING THAT MUM HAD A PAIN IN HER NECK THIS WAS NOT SO.  MUM HAS REPORTED A PALPITATION IN HER NECK DURING THE BREATHLESSNESS.  SHE SAID THAT THIS WAS NOT PAIN - PAIN TO HER IS SOMETHING WHICH IS UNPLEASANT AND THE PALPITATION WAS NOT THAT.

HER DRUGS HAVE BEEN CHANGED TODAY.  SHE IS NOW ON 140G OF THE DIURETIC FRUSEMIDE TAKEN ORALLY INSTEAD OF 100G INTRAVEINOUSLY,  ALSO BISAPROLOL - A BETA BLOCKER WHICH DECREASES THE OXYGEN DEMAND OF THE HEART, AND IBERSTATAN FOR WHICH I CAN FIND NO DETAILS ON THE INTERNET EXCEPT THAT IT IS PRESCRIBED FOR HEART AND CARDIAC PATIENTS. THE LARGE DOSE OF FRUSEMIDE SEEMS TO BE REMOVING THE FLUID FROM HER SWOLLEN LEGS WHICH HAVE NOW SOMEWHAT REDUCED IN SIZE AND ARE NOT SORE.

SHE HAS TODAY BEEN TALKING ABOUT HER RETURN TO ST. GEORGE’S AND IS STILL EXCITED ABOUT HAVING HER NEW ROOM. ALSO ABOUT BEING ABLE TO HAVE TRIPS OUT INSTEAD OF ALWAYS HAVING TO BE TEN MINUTES FROM THE LOO.  ALL THIS PROVIDING SHE IS NOT CALLED INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD WHICH SHE STILL FEELS WOULD BE A PEFERABLE OPTION - “BECAUSE I WILL STILL HAVE TO GO SOMETIME, ANYWAY”.

THERE WERE NO SCAN RESULTS TODAY.  THE DOCTOR WHO CHANGED HER MEDICATION SAID THAT SHE WOULD RETURN THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE RESULTS - BUT SHE DIDN’T.  MAYBE THE RESULT WILL BE THERE TOMORROW.

SO THERE WE ARE. MUM IS HAPPY, BUT TIRED AND SHE SENDS YOU ALL HER LOVE.

I DO TOO,

TED.

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14/02/2007 by Ted.

MORNING OF 14 FEBRUARY 2007.  SPOKE TO THE HOSPITAL THIS MORNING.  THE WARD SISTER CAME TO THE PHONE HERSELF TO SAY THAT MUM HAD HAD A BAD NIGHT WITH LOTS OF BREATHLESSNESS AND NOW HAS A PAIN IN HER NECK.  SHE IS VERY TIRED.

MORE LATER.

 TED.

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