Following Mary's four week spell in hospital (gall stone blockage caused severe pancreatitis and they wouldn't let her out until vital signs had stabilised) she went back in for a CT scan on Sunday to see if the inflammation had gone down enough to be able to operate and remove the gall bladder safely. Went to see the consultant today and he said the scan showed a cyst on the pancreas the size of a large grapefruit that will be full of crap from the inflammation. Bit of a bugger because instead of just the keyhole surgery we were expecting to remove the gall bladder she has got to be cut open to drain and remove the cyst as well as remove the gall bladder. Four of five days in hospital. 
The food shopping is doing my head in! Anyway, she is booked in for the op on Monday and has queue jumped as an emergency so we can't complain at the service - and makes me wonder why the hell I'm paying £120 private health insurance!
Give her Kerstin and my best wishes for a speedy recovery!!
Sorry to hear all that David. I wish her a swift recovery.
And the shopping? Piece of piss. http://www.waitrose.com/index.aspx
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Bloody hell Dave, I hope she makes a full and speedy recovery. As for shopping, do it all online!
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Ta chaps, madam just wants to get this saga over with - it hasn't been a good year for her what with the redundancy and all. The bedroom will be decorated by the time she gets out and she'll have a new flat screen TV on the wall to watch while she recuperates. Who says I don't look after her. 
You should get her a new German Officer's uniform too, she'd love that.....and an X-Box 360. 
Yes, good ideas. I think she has been hankering for 'The Saboteur' game so that will be a nice surprise. 
Madam had the op this morning and all went well. One and a half hours in theatre and gall bladder removed and the pancreatic cyst drained of 2.5 litres of fluid. No wonder she couldn't eat much and felt full all the time (and why she got pushed in as an emergency).
Anyhoo, visited this evening and she is OK but very tired. Nil by mouth for five days and up to 10 days in hospital but at least its done and dusted now.
I took her the early xmas present of The Sabateur game but she was too tired to appreciate it and in any case the nurses wouldn't let me install it on one of the admin computers so I said I'll bring it home and make sure it works OK, ready for her return.
Sheeeit. 2.5 litres?!
Glad she's on the mend. It's a shitter she might be in for Chrimbo. Having said that, my experience of hospitals is that they try to get you home for Christmas, even if it's just for the daytime.
S
I think a full bladder of piss is around 500ml so gawd only knows what a 2.5 litres feels like. Pregnancy probably!
A litre of water weighs 1kg, so probably around 2.5kg, or 5.5lbs. So yeah, a small baby.
Glad to hear it all went well. 
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Bummer. We were hoping she would be out today but she has been having problems with her chest so they did a chest x-ray and found she has small blood clots on the lungs. She is on warfarin now and has got to have full blood tests every day for five days, so that's going to be Christmas holiday in hospital! Still, they whipped the staples out today and she didn't feel anything so that was something.
Oh dear. I hope your Christmas isn't too disrupted and she's out soon. You could always cancel it until she gets home.
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Wifey came out of hospital on Wednesday. Just when I've got used to the house without her.
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Things took a turn for the worse the day after she came home. Confined to bed, raging temperature then freezing cold, unable to eat without puking and what was stayed down out the other end. Having had rubbish service from emergency GPs before (this would happen over the holiday period 
) we stuck it out until this morning when she had a blood test booked at the hospital. I then wheeled her straight into A&E, where she was assessed and admitted straight away. Blummin six hour wait for a bed to become available but she is sorted out now diagnosed with a urinary infection picked up from the Christmas stint in hospital. Gah, that's another day I have wasted in hospital - I thought it was all done and dusted!
Bloody hell. People always seem to come out of hospital with more illnesses than they went in with!
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Right, things might just be getting a bit complicated.
Madam is still in hospital and is quite well in herself but is having regular bloods/CT scans/endoscopy and things seem to be progressing OK. They are talking about discharging her but she is on a drip-fed antibiotic that isn't available by tablet. So they are talking about fitting a deep vein cannula so that she can come into hospital each day to be hooked up for half an hour as an outpatient. Clearly this won't be just half an hour what with getting there, waiting, dosed up, waiting, then getting home.
If she is still in a hospital bed over the weekend then I'm clear for the game, if not I need to make contingency.
I could dump all the stuff with you on Saturday, spend what time I can on site, then come back. Then either return on Sunday to collect stuff or collect it at a later date. It's a three hour return journey each time but its doable.
Or I could drop the stuff off with Dave Barrett if he has the space in the 222 or trailers and hope he gets to site early enough for you to set up (he is usually ridiculously early!).
I'll have to keep this up in the air at the moment until I get something concrete from the consultant...
Oh dear. Family always come first, so, don't worry. I can't believe she's been in hospital for so long and to have to keep going back seems a bit daft.
If you can't make Boryszyn, then I can store some stuff at my place if needs be. No need for you to have extra stress, driving backwards and forwards on sunday.
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