A Good Night

We had two attempts at removing the pressure device. The wound site was fine as long as he didn't move. He was finally allowed to sit up a bit but unfortunately this caused him to spring a leak! 

Another hour laying flat coincided with the arrival of his Pizza Express Piccolo meal. 

The new valve is already having a dramatic effect. Prior to the procedure Harrison was quite lethargic all the time and eating was a laborious process. Now he is chatting excitedly and managed 6 dough balls and a child sized pizza without any problem. It was the first meal he'd had since the previous evening but was still impressive!

We settled down for an early night but I'd forgotten to give Harrison his watch back. Despite his melatonin medication, I found him wide awake and sitting up at 1:43am thinking that it was already morning. I, on the other hand did not feel so wide awake at this time! It was my second night on the camp bed and although I'd made attempts to soften the mattress with a thin quilt, it was still one night too many. It felt like I was lying on a slab of concrete!

We're extremely fortunate to have only one of two side rooms on the ward. The disadvantage though, is that we're quite cut off from the rest of the ward.
However, we know everyone is still out there when the banging of doors starts at 6:30am! We're sandwiched between a shared toilet and the entrance to the pre-assessment unit / offices.

The handbag contains a portable ECG machine so that he can be monitored remotely.

Bernard won't be here until nearly lunchtime today. He'd arranged to go down to Harrison's favourite leisure place; Let's Race, to potentially buy some F1 racing memorabilia. Sadly, the company closed its doors on 21 January but Harrison wasn't well enough to have one last race there.
The shopping trip was successful and Harrison is delighted! He's got two great pictures, a wheel (which we're going to make into a coffee table) and a radiator. Not sure what we're going to do with that yet. Any ideas?

It's not all fun this morning. Another 6 tubes of blood taken and an echo and X-Ray still to come.

Just been given my orders from Harrison - "Can you shave me please because I want to look smart for dad and I don't want my hairs obstructing the echo". Glad he's concerned about looking good but not sure where he's expecting the echo probe to go. I've never seen it scan his face before!! 

Mission complete and a clean bed too!