Thurs 25th
Unfortunately Alan did have a bad night last night, he could not keep water down and was vomiting every hour. At 6.45am my son went off to his football tournament and at 8am we rang the line straight to the oncology ward. They said they were full and could we ring the GP. My daughter went to a friend's at 10am. Our GP did a home visit at 11am, by now Alan was very dehydrated and the Dr was concerned that his swollen right leg could be a DVT also because he could not keep any pills down, including the anti-sickness ones, he was in a lot of pain in his chest and tummy. So he was admitted and i took him to PCH. We went into A and E and of course although he got a bed in the admissions quite quickly things went very slowly. Eight hours later i left the hospital with Alan at last on saline with the anti sickness drugs and morphine. They managed to find him a bed on the Oncology ward so that was good. They also gave him an enema because the pills and the chemo had made him really constipated, and we all know how painful that can be.
The worst thing really was the fact that he did not get any sleep last night due to being sick every hour and has today been plagued by hiccups, each one being very uncomfortable and hurting which meant that he could not sleep. As i left they were going to give him some drug to try to curb the hiccups. I shall ring the ward in a moment to find out if he is managing to sleep now, he is not in a room of his own so i hope he can sleep. The scan for his leg will be tomorrow morning apparently.
The worst thing in the hospital was that somehow we always hit the nurse shift changeover at the wrong time, i found i was having to chase up drugs and drips and whatnot, so im glad i was there to do that. Alan would not let me touch or stroke him though because his skin was too sensitive, at one point towards the end i held his hand and he dropped it quickly..'You're skin is too hot' which i found a bit hard because i wanted to comfort him. I wished i could stay much longer but it had been a long day and children and puppies needed collecting and caring for so as soon as he had all he needed i came away. Now i'm home i worry if this is it now and we will be just in and out of there all the time. I want to be a bit more organised at home so that i can be more prepared to rush in to hospital like that.
Right i am going to ring the ward and then have a very long bath.
