I had a phone call from Mum at 5.30 Monday morning saying that she had called an ambulance for Dad. Last January before the lung cancer he had atrial fibrillation and he has had the same again. He had another attack on Tuesday morning at 1am and the hospital phoned me to say that he was asking for Mum as he was sure he was dying, my two sisters also came to the hospital. They have managed to stabilise Dad and he is now on a normal ward, on oxygen, at least until Monday.
It was all very scary and I really thought we were going to lose him, because of the lung cancer they are trying to balance the drugs so that they don't cause any problems. He coughed up a small clot on Tuesday morning after the attack and apparently because he is on blood thinning drugs at the moment it was one of the things the nurses were asked to look out for.
Unfortunately his vicar is away and he was asking for him Tuesday morning - he contacted the hospital chaplaincy and they came to see him.
A palliative nurse came round yesterday and asked lots of questions and said that he looked & sounded quite well considering.
When I saw him yesterday he said that he had been confused as they had moved him in the middle of the night, what with that & the morphine they had given him he had thought he was in Athens when he woke up!!
