Just checking in to see the news on Scorps. So sorry this wasn't the month for you mate. I really really really thought it was, not that that's any help.
Well, we've gone from expecting dad to be home today to expecting him to be in for another 2 weeks. In order for him to get the treatment he needs he is in hosp 250 miles away from home. Mum can't stay down there the whole time so she came home when he appeared to be on the mend. Then on Friday he had some sort of emergency scan and procedure - I don't really know what - and it became apparent he wasn't going anywhere.
NO-ONE has contacted us to let us know what is happening, the only info we have had has been from dad himself, and that is kind of garbled because he is befuddled by opiates and antibiotics. I've tried speaking to the nurses on the ward who don't seem to know either. Dad asked his surgeon to call me, who said, "oh I'll tell you and you can tell her" - cue another confused account from dad.
I was so upset and frustrated on Saturday morning that in the end Him Outdoors insisted we drive down there - which obviously we hadn't planned to do as we had thought dad was about to be discharged. So our weekend became an unexpected and expensive road trip. We came back last night, thoroughly exhausted.
Astonishingly, despite having been to the hospital Sat and Sun, I'm still no wiser as to what is going on. Because it was a weekend there were no medical staff around, and certainly none of the surgical team. In addition, visiting is restricted to 1 hour in the afternoon and 1 hour in the evening, which is intended NOT to coincide with ward rounds. Restricted visiting also mean that despite having driven 4 hours to see dad, we got kicked out for turning up outside those hours.
I'm calling the surgeon's secretary now to ask her to call me today, but I'm in a diffcult position because I don't want to have a go at her because she is amazing with dad. And of course I'm in a massive meeting all afternoon that I won't be able to get out of if she calls then. Welling up at my desk typing all of this.