Tuesday 13 September 2011

Amoxycillin & Metrozonidal administered last night via drip. Tum still huge but a bit less gassy. 1st Nurse I saw this morning assumed she was to take the drip away. I think the default nurse care plan was to discharge me and see what happened - would have been nasty. Apart from dodgy sewing, the Senior Reg's mistake was to think too binary. He thought if there was a surgical problem the blood tests would show it. In fact they did but not to the level he expected. The leak from bowel to bloodstream is small but it's there. Mr K wasn't around enough but by wresting me from the knife of the duty surgeon & stenting last year's tumour, he has good credit.

4 comments:

  1. Good to walk with you last night and to discover the mythical ward beyond the ward doors... Get well soon, the airwaves need you! Joy

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  2. Fuckety fuck fuck! Hope the drugs soon work xx

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  3. shouldn't someone plug the leak though??? or is the idea it will heal itself if the infection goes away? i guess shitty luck is kind of an appropriate comment here... hope it gets better soon x

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  4. Most small leaks turn into large ones and then peritonitis fast. Turns out I was saved by the adhesions/scarring in my colon from radiotherapy treatment 15 years ago. Luckily my body managed to heal the wound otherwise another op was on!

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