The Difference Sleep Makes

Yesterday was a really crap day on many counts, I had had a very fitful sleep and consequently was grumpy, not up to doing anything but I had a nurse who was on a mission to get me drinking, moving and it was all to much. I do not respond well to being harried. So a bit of a battle of wills. So by the end of all of this I was very tearful and depressed.

I am hooked up to lots of monitors – at night I am being fed by TPN to give me some optimal nutrition through my veins, hourly observations, I have an epidural in my back giving fentanyl and a concoction of pain relief in my mid thorax band covering where I had the surgery and it is very effective. On top of that I have voltarol and paracetamol for pain. I am also having a multi vitamin, antibiotics, stomach lining drugs, creon for absorption of food, Piriton for itching, amitriptyline for back pain and sleep. So rattling!

In order to go home I need a scan to see if the bile duct is working as it should, and I need to be disconnected to all the drains, pumps and feed, but Mr Worthington thinks it might be early next week or even Sunday.

The surgery was pretty major I now understand.

I am up for receiving visitors if anyone wants to come let me know.

18/7/19