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Post by Calenture on Dec 8, 2009 5:23:04 GMT
Yesterday, Coral was admitted to Treliske hospital.
This is after a year of increasing illness, and with 'about two weeks' to go before her operation (about bloody time). She told me when I came home from the early shift that she'd have to go into hospital as she could no longer keep down pain killers or anti-nausea tablets, and hadn't eaten in three days.
When I got back from taking the 6-year-old to school, the ambulance was outside the door. 'Beck, Coral's eldest daughter, had had a hell of a job convincing the people concerned that an ambulance was necessary, though the paramedic who turned up said we should have called one days ago. Par for the course with NHS communications over the past year.
After about an hour-and-a-half hanging about in A&E, finally someone found time to attend her and administered morphine and put her on a drip, and they've decided to keep her in - probably until the operation, I'd think.
So if I'm not too prompt with posts over the next few weeks, you'll know what's happening.
Thanks to everyone for all the messages private and public wishing her well.
Rog
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 8, 2009 11:38:24 GMT
Feel for you Rog, must have been a tough time for poor Coral. I hope it all goes well for Coral. Bloody NHS...
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Post by carolinec on Dec 8, 2009 16:10:31 GMT
My best wishes to both of you - especially Coral for her op. It really is awful what she's had to suffer at the incompetent hands of the NHS. Relating to my health issues (fibromyalgia, among other things), I belong to a forum of similar sufferers. The stories you hear on there of NHS incompetence just beggar belief. Once all this is over, and you and Coral have some time to yourselves, you really ought to put in an official complaint over what's happened - it's diabolical!  |
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Dec 8, 2009 19:09:09 GMT
God, it's horrendous that it's taken things to get so far before they took any action. I really hope that she'll now be more comfortable and that they'll stop mucking her around and get the operation attended to.
My best to both of you, and to the kids.
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Post by corpsecandle on Dec 9, 2009 15:52:20 GMT
Take all my good faith for the both of you Rog it sounds like you have both had a torrid time recently,with a little luck things will get better in the not too distant future.
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Post by Calenture on Dec 12, 2009 14:20:43 GMT
Finally got a moment to say how things are going.
I started writing something here, then decided to start again and make it short. Basically they decided to operate on Coral Tuesday, the day after she was taken to A&E. So the operation's done. But they've moved her into a couple of wards since then for different observations. Not much more I can add to that; at the moment I'm keeping an eye on the six-year-old while Beck visits her (no small children allowed on the ward). I'll visit her this evening.
One thing for sure, she's got a lot of living to catch up with when she's over this.
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Post by Calenture on Dec 14, 2009 13:38:08 GMT
This is really the best way to keep people up to date and explain my recent silence. Thanks for keeping the place going with posts, and I want to get to those ERB and Tanith Lee threads myself as soon as I get a chance, and finish the Black Book 5 posts. Oh, and I've had a packet arrive from Dark Horizons Press. And there are now two stories for FC 6. (Added later: Might have been better if I'd just written "She wants crisps now" instead of describing everything but the ward's bed curtains in the bit below.  Anyway, time flies, and I still don't have much of it right now.) OK, Monday Coral admitted to Treliske's A&E department, then moved to a ward to be kept in. Tuesday she told me that a doctor had seen her and decided he would have to operate now. The operation lasted 2 hours and she was in Surgical Recover 8 more hours for pain management. I finally got to see her after midnight. 6:10 a.m. Thursday the phone rang before I left for the early shift, and I was told she was being moved to the High Dependency ward as she'd developed some inflammation of the lungs after the op. They asked me to stay 'contactable', so I went in. She was in High Dependency until Friday evening, and a lot of that time had to be encased in a Turbo Mask covering the entire head, which forced air into her lungs and dried them out. Friday evening they decided it was OK for her to return to Tolgus ward, and Saturday they began removing the oxygen mask and a few of the tubes. I just phoned through to the ward to make sure things were OK before finishing this post, and the nurse tells me she wants me to bring in Salt and Vinegar crisps when I visit tonight. Guess that's a good sign.  |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Dec 14, 2009 14:49:44 GMT
Thanks for the update Rog. Best wishes to you both.
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Post by corpsecandle on Dec 14, 2009 18:37:50 GMT
Salt and Viniger crisps ....great sign,it will be a bottle of Jacobs Creek Red next  |
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Post by Stephen Bacon on Dec 14, 2009 22:24:59 GMT
Best wishes to you both, Rog. Give her my love.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Dec 14, 2009 23:18:34 GMT
Asking for crisps? Sounds like a good sign to me.
All the best to both of you.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 15, 2009 10:44:43 GMT
Crisps. That's good. The rest of it sounds pretty nightmarish and I hope Coral just goes from strength to strength.
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Post by David Kartos on Dec 21, 2009 13:53:21 GMT
Best wishes for both of you . Happy christmass , I hope .
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Post by benedictjjones on Dec 21, 2009 14:28:57 GMT
hope all is still getting better,all the best for both of you
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Post by weirdmonger on Dec 23, 2009 16:09:15 GMT
All my very best wishes to both of you.
Seems an inadequate thing to say.
But I will be thinking of you in my own way.
des
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Anyway, time flies, and I still don't have much of it right now.)
