Home from hospital

Finally back home 5 weeks later.  Exhausted. 

The op was longer and more serious than they thought.  16 hours in theatre followed by 5 days in intensive care.  Finally made it to ward only to be sent back hours later to ICU as breathing not right.  Had serious chest infection.  That cleared up and made it back to ward a couple of days later only to have sudden decline and be sent back to ICU.  Suddenly whisked off by staff in full PPE to an isolation room with the info that I had now contracted flu! Spent 5 days there, then went to High Dependency Unit for a few days, than back to ward on the 3rd attempt.  Eventually recovery commenced but the original 2 to 3 week estimate stretched to 5 weeks and I was stuck there over Xmas and the New Year.  

It's been a challenging time emotionally and physically.  I'll write all about it in my blog when I'm not so tired.  My late father always used to encourage me to to find something amusing in a difficult situation.  So I'll leave you with the tale about the night a nurse messed up my feeding pump so that the protein drink was pumping all over the bed and not into my tummy.  I'd been asleep, and by the time I awoke to raise the alarm me and the bed were smothered in it, and it was dripping all over the floor.  The clean up took hours and the person responsible was off duty by then, and were not very popular with their colleagues!