arm

Spent 4 hrs yesterday in the A&E dept at the Luton & Dunstable Hospital waiting for someone to look again at a rather spectacular wound & bruising that Andrew acquired on his right arm at Harefield, where a needle was put in during theatre. He is bruised from wrist to elbow in 5 shades of the rainbow. I had called Harefield about it in the morning as it had gone hard and lumpy and they had said that if that happened to the other main wound it would require action. They said go to casualty. The L&D said it is a "false aneurysm" and prescribed a course of penicillen, as it is very prone to infection, but otherwise should disperse over a number of weeks. The doctor said "we often get this from Harefield"; I wasn't sure whether he was joking...The A& E dept was a horror of misery and I was very glad to be out of it (I'm referring to the patients, not the hospital or staff who were flat out trying to cope with them all)

G

Op over

We have had a long day at Harefield (up at 5am to make sure we were there for 7.30am), the op to close the hole in Andrew's heart went OK and he was back in recovery by 10.30am He was kept in for quite a while in the afternoon as the wound took a long time to stop bleeding, due to the aspirin he is taking, but we finally got away around 5.45pm and were back home by 7pm. He is now sleeping soundly but I am buzzing with adrenaline, so have decided to update the blog now!

Thanks so much to everyone who has sent us messages of support

If all goes well we will have a very quiet week, Andrew can only do short walks, nothing heavy/strenuous, and we would like to stay away from crowds/social things where he might pick up an infection; we will start trying to get back to normal next week
Gill