Monday comes along and loads of positive talk about going home. The final drain is removed so another big hurdle gone!
All the chat about going home continues, My good friend Angela pops in and we can actually go downstairs to the cafe, where I get a call to say that I can go home - yippee I think, so get back to the ward and pretty much everything is prepared to go....except
One of the surgeons turns up who has had a further look at the hole in my mouth and is not happy, so now not going home, they plug it overnight and want to check the results in the morning which seems reasonable. The following day they have another look, the hole is still there surprise surprise, but now after much debate I can go home.
Kendal has come to see me and it now becomes a bit annoying with the details around going home. To start with the discharge has been a joke!
A young student nurse is sent over to tell me I can go home and have to leave now as they now need the bed, so no bedside manner and I now feel I am being sent home as its convenient to the ward and not necessarily convenient to me, so I'm a bit pissed off to say the least. sThe convo is confirm I can go mow and my daughter will take me home or I'm here until 4pm when my wife can get here!
When the ward sister comes over to my bed to organise the discharge I provide her with my thoughts on this and that its not very satisfactory, she gives me some lame excuses and we pack up ready to go, and thats it, my time in hospital is over - certainly a journey good and bad but on my way home and I feel. much better within myself, be in my own home, see my dogs and have my loving wife to help me, much better situation in my book! Still a long way to go but I think my recovery will be easier at home, loads of appointments being setup and I'll touch on these as they come up
Tuesday 1st July 2025 a big day
Way to go Steve! Happy to see you made it through the surgery ok and are now home for your recovery! I am sure you will be ready for the wedding in time!
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