The news is that I can now eat solids, as Thommo put a 9cm kevlar stent in my duodenum on Friday afternoon. Of course, it didn't all go smoothly........
I turned up at the hospital at 10am as requested, only to be told by his nurses that "he won't start till 1pm - we have no idea why he would tell you to get here so early!" Back home and paid attention to some work, then returned to the clinic, but they didn't have my papers, and admitted me without them (which caused a few small ructions later). The doctor and I had a good old chat while he gowned up, and 1.5 hours later, I was done. Apparently a very technical piece of work - took much longer than expected/normal.
When I woke up I had dreadful pain in my guts, so they gave me a shot of morphine, which settled it down quickly, but made me feel slightly nauseous for the next 18 hours. Because of the pain, they admitted me to National Capital Private Hospital for the night. Much more professional than last time!
I woke up feeling a little worse for wear this morning, and the doctor (my 3rd GIT guy - Graham Kaye) let me out at about 3pm. Graham is the best of the three I've met, although he was running hard doing weekend rounds. Apparently, there are six GITs in Canberra, and four of them had gone to the same conference in Washington, and the other one was away. No wonder he was rushed!
Anyway, here I am at home, all ready to go in for another procedure to insert my Porta-Cath for the chemo. I guess there's a good chance that'll happen next week.
Not feeling too crash hot, but happy to be here. Gaye has taken the dog for a walk while I "blog on". Tomorrow, back into routine of exercise and meditation - if I started either just now, I reckon I wuold go to sleep.
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Hooray home at last! what's for dinner, a bit soon for pizza I expect. Glad to hear that they were able to 'stent' and not 'bypass'. As we used to say on the Hash On! On!
God Bless.
Rose & Don
I haven't commented until now but I've been keeping up with your updates. We are thinking of you and you guys are in our prayers.
All our love
Graham & Annette.
Well done Tony, good to see your analysis skills are still in place even around having a stent applied. Now that that you have an end-to-end channel, I sense that perhaps you deserve time to do a bit more 'omming' over the next few weeks. Let me know if you would like transport for any of your hospital visits, I am available during the day for most of next week and beyond. Take care mate.
Hi Tony. Didier and I were happy to read your news on Saturday night. He says when your up for a bike ride and a cafe au lait, please let him know. Of course he will want to ride too fast but the camera's are keeping him sensible -on the other side, when you go for a ride I will ask Gaye out for lunch or something. Also I think my Dad has a few catholic prayers going on for you too - he's pretty good at that as I found when Lachlan needed that extra positive push. Rest well.
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