Day 28 – A month in Hospital

I had my original operation on the 10th February and 9 days in the Montefiore and the rest here in the County. It will be good and slightly scary to go home. I have been used to being looked after and this will change once I go home. The best laid plans were that my mother would come and look after me as I was going to be 10 days post operation, but now I am four weeks post operation I feel I need less looking after and she has the most awful cough and cold and would not really be up for the drive. It is a shame for us both as I was looking forward to spending the time with her, but it is totally the right decision. My surgeon is happy for me to drive if I feel I can do an emergency stop, which I think I could and so is the insurance company.

Rowena is at school until she breaks up for the holidays on Thursday, and Tessa has volunteered to work from Inholmes on Monday. Are any of my lovely supportive friends able to come and give me a hand on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday? I do not think I will need much – but perhaps to help get supper for Mark and Rowena in the afternoon? They have been coping, but I expect it will be hard for me to watch them, and it might be easier if I have help earlier, and a little company.

Once I am at home I will not be blogging on a daily basis, I will post things as I have something major to say, but will just be quietly convalescing. So no news will be good news, it will mean I have just had a boring day. What I am waiting for now is to move from being looked after by surgical teams to meeting medical teams, in possibly the Marsden, to learn about my tumour.

Today I am waiting for a discharge letter from the doctors. My nurse on Friday has got my medicines ready for going home, and so I just have to wait for the doctors rounds. I am aiming to leave at 1.30.