devilman wrote:
Best wishes to your father and father-in-law, TheVision. Must be a stressful time.
My Dad seems largely back to normal now. Still a bit breathless, but he's back driving again and they've been to their caravan in Wales a couple of times, so normal service is resumed. Hopefully next time he has something bad, he won't leave it as long before going to hospital.
And.. now he's back in Acute Medical Unit for an overnight stay again. Thankfully not the major breathlessness of before, but a rather more unusual problem of fluid all over the place. He's mainly leaking from the elbows, which is odd in itself, but unfortunately the bigger problem is down below, where his scrotum is a damn sight bigger than it should be. And as I'm there as translator, I have to stay put as the doctor looks at my dad's balls, while I try to stare solely at the doctor.
They think it's kidney-related, but they'll know more tomorrow. On the plus side, the nurse on the night shift that was helping him is frankly stunning.
Another oddity - it's only a small ward, 20-something beds, and three of the patients in there have the same first and last name, one being my dad. And as I've got the same name too, there were four of us there this evening.
A big part of me is feeling sorry for my Dad still being stuck in hospital - he's now on a regular ward, but with regular visiting hours rather than the 24/7 visiting that AMU allows. He also now has six stitches in his head after stumbling in the loo.
A small part of me is also annoyed at some of the stuff that he's either kept quiet about or left too long (I'll spare the details as they're not pretty). I know us men can be stubborn about getting medical stuff sorted, but he's taken things to an extreme.
Also annoying to see a heavily pregnant woman smoking away outside the maternity ward, but her choice I suppose.