My husband aged 48 is booked in for a esophagectomy in 2 weeks time, I have to drop him off at a hospital that isnt local to us so a hour or so's drive, he will be in there 10 days to a fortnight and obviously no visiting during that time.
My dad has just found out his bowel cancer has come back, so he's going in for his operation the week after my husband but to our local hospital again no visiting.
I totally understand why there's no visiting at the moment, has anyone else had their family member in hospital recently? Just wondered how you coped with not being there for all the discussions etc, as my husband doesn't retain all the info he's been told and I get a different version from him as to what the hospital have said, I'm just worried when they come round to discuss how the operation has gone he won't relay exactly what was said.
My dad can't have morphine and last year was hospitalised due to a locum prescribing morphine then he was given morphine when he was transferred to another ward, so we are apprehensive about him being in there without someone with him after last time.
With the 2 of them going in around the same time, I think I'm just getting myself wound up about not being able to see them
