#2393 Thursday 26th June

Wow! What a saga!  The main operation went fairly quickly..... probably about half an hour or so...... then I had a "acute pulmonary odema"..... APO..... which is when blood is sucked into the lungs. This took a long time to fix it..... about 5 hours in the theater! So I was then a further 24 hours in the  postoperative ward........  then I was moved to the intensive care unit.  It's now 1.30pm and it looks as though I'll be moved to a ward soon.  The whole affairs has been beautifully managed.  Top marks to RPH.  The pain levels have been much lower than I expected....

I now have just one kidney and the remaining kidney is functioning perfectly.

5pm...... Still in ICU 

Pain 1-2.    Sleepy

9pm....... Still ln ICU 

The nurse on duty tonight brought me another meal.... and I made the mistake of eating it.  I'm too full now.  I've been dosed with Movicol twice so my full tummy will self correct in due course. My nurse is from India and her English is so so...... she understands the language but not the colloquialism...... the meal was a mistake on context.  (.... bit of a worry in the medical system.)  For example the Aussie nurse next door had her coffee mug in her hand..... so I said "weak, white and one. Miss Oz understood perfectly.....  but my nurse was very puzzled and I had to give her a long explanation of the saying.