Friday, 29 May 2009

Drew woke up early, being sick - not a good start to the day. Back to John Hunter today and we were on a different ward, as it was only a day procedure - Drew wasn't overly impressed to start with. He went to theatre to have his portocath removed and a central line inserted. (the difference is a port is totally enclosed under his skin and a central line has two lines dangling down his belly). The procedure took twice as long as they said, due to difficulties getting the line in the right spot, I must admit to being worried. Drew spent over an hour in recovery and had quite a funny taste in his mouth, he also had a cut where they had taken out the port, a cut in his neck where the new line was inserted plus the incision where the line comes out, his stomach was quite a sight. Once back on the ward he brightened up pretty quick and demolished some Jatz and was allowed to go home at 3.15pm. He was quite happy and hungry at home and hasn't been in any pain - so far.