stephens mother's blog

The operation 7th November.2008 Things went well at first. On the Monday, he seemed to be in a lot of pain, in his chest and in his tummy. He was crying, whimpering, and groaning. I upped his pain killers but nothing seemed to help him. By the time it got to 10pm I phoned the NHS help line. There were phone calls back and forth, then the one to say they were sending out a Doctor. He came an hour or two later. He tried…

Once Stephen went to sleep I went back to my husband who was waiting for me on the ward. Because Stephen couldn’t have any food or drink, neither did I, and I was feeling very hungry. We went to the canteen had something to eat and more important, cups of tea. After about one hour I was phoned and told that he was out of the theatre, and I could go down and wait for him to come round. Back to the ward went my husband…

This is my 2nd go at writhing a blog. I did try before Christmas, but I clicked on a wrong button and lost the WHOLE BLOG. I was not very happy. Anyway I am going to try again. I finished my last one when Stephen was in Hospital. When we arrived at our local hospital, we got Stephen to get changed and said that the Doc wanted to see him. I had not told him that he was going to have an operation as I thought it might…

I have never had a blog before, so please forgive me and have a good laugh over my spelling mistakes. I am Stephens mother. He is a 41 year old (going on 4) downs syndrome. He dosn't talk very well, so he use sign language. I wish I was as good as him, but he seems to understand me. I had been saying for over a year that things were not right. I could never quite say what was wrong, nor could he. His G.P. got him test…