Archive for 06/05/2007

UPDATE ON MUM

EVENING OF 6TH MAY 2007. MUM CONTINUES TO ENJOY LIFE AT ST. GEORGE’S. 

THERE HAS HOWEVER BEEN A HITCH WITH HER CATHETER.  THIS HAS BEEN CAUSING PROBLEMS AND SOME SORENESS FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS NOW.  THE DISTRICT NURSE CAME IN REINSTALLED IT ON FRIDAY BUT LAST NIGHT THE PROBLEMS RETURNED.  SHE WAS CALLED AGAIN AND THIS TIME REMOVED THE CATHETER UNTIL TUESDAY TO GIVE THE SORENESS TIME TO HEAL.  ALL BEING WELL IT WILL THEN BE RE-INSTATED.  IN THE MEANTIME MUM IS WEARING A PAD (SHE CALLS IT A NAPPY) AS SHE IS PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO MAKE HER OWN WAY TO THE LOO TO PASS WATER WHICH SHE NEEDS TO DO FREQUENTLY DUE TO THE HIGH DOSEAGE OF DIURETICS WHICH SHE IS ON TO KEEP HER LUNGS FREE OF WATER. 

APART FROM THIS SHE IS HAPPY AND CONTENT AND SENDS HER LOVE TO EVERYONE AS USUAL.

ME TOO,

TED.

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