So Maggie got her central line out today and lost her IV drugs which had the expected effects of waking her up, when I got there she was in quite a lot of pain from sitting up for a bit. Fortunately she still has a bunch of good pain killers available and the nurses soon got it under control. No instant fix now tho so I got my hand pulverised for ten minutes or so.
Both sets of parents visited and commented how good Margaret is looking. I put it down to the green jelly that you get for both lunch and dinner. I guess there are some perks to being in hospital, but that doesn't sell it for me.
Did you know that you can get remote controlled electric beds? They must be a new addition to Mercy because some of the nurses seem to fumble around with the controls. Margaret seems to have a handle on them and can now frighten the guests by performing unexpected manoeuvres. Just be thankful that the wheels aren't motorised otherwise the inmates would be playing dodgems.
If all goes well she'll try for a short walk tomorrow, and should be up to having visitors if anyone feels like popping in from 11am. Mercy Ascot, Level 1 Room 22.
Bryan
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Pre-op 2000
This is before I had any surgery on my back. It's looking at it front on. You can see the base of the spine is where it connects to my pelvis, and then how the top is out of line with the bottom, This made it look like I had one big hip, because my ribcage was off to one side.
Pre-op 2007
Here is how my spine looks now, you can see that the part that has the rods is straight, then at the top the unfused part goes off at a different angle. The surgery tomorrow is to fix that, by putting a rod from about 2 vertebrae up and 3 or 4 below the junction.
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