This last week has gone fairly well, the traccy hole has sealed up and doesn't need any more treatment and the walking, talking and eating is improving at a good rate of knots. I've been out for a meal at some very good friends and have had a couple of visitors. The oncologist rang as promised, but didn't have any more news - despite more investigations, the tumour remains unidentifiable. I always knew I was a one off, but I would have preferred on this occasion, to have a run of the mill type of tumour which would have been treated elsewhere. Still, the investigation continues and I was due back at Birmingham on Wednesday next when they were hoping for a breakthrough - find the tumour type then the chemo type can be mixed and given to me. We wait and hope. However, this morning we had a little incident which threw all of the plans into disarray. The District Nurse had arranged for a waterproof cover for my leg so that I could take a shower. Its a really good bit of kit, totally waterproof and I can have a 10 minute shower instead of sliding around in the bath. This morning, as I got dried after my shower, I felt unwell. Lynn managed to help me get into a chair before I passed out.Within a few minutes we had 2 burly RAF Lives staff followed by 2 paramedics complete with blue light blaring ambulance. I had come round by the time they had arrived and my temp, heart,blood pressure etc., was ok..Nevertheless, it was decided to take me to Lincoln A&E . That was educational. There are 10 cubicles and throughout my 6 hour stay in and out, there was never less than 5 patients on trolleys all over the ward waiting for a cubicle. I started in the corridor, went to room 4, back into the corridor, into room 6, back into the corridor,back to room 4, off to X-ray, back to the corridor, into room 10 and finally discharged. It was absolute bedlam.There is an obvious shortage of rooms and staff to match. After much debate , poking, prodding, photo taking, blood sampling et al, it was decided that the skin graft was not healing properly in one place and I had reacted to the poison, despite going on penicillin a couple of days ago when last Thursdays swab had highlighted a batch of bugs.There was some debate about orthopedic surgery in Lincoln. I didn't like the sound of that, so I got Lynn to ring my consultant at QE, Birmingham. Net result - I go back into QE tomorrow as an in-patient to get my wound sorted, so I will try to keep the blog going, but everything will depend on availability of Computer plugs etc,.So bye for now-
Chris
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