Friday, November 30, 2007

 

30th Nov. Vampire Nurses.

Well today we finally had a nurse around to take Grandma's blood for testing. Trouble was that Grandma's veins are not good so the nurse could not get any blood from the arms. Now this nurse had not been trained to take blood from anywhere else so she had to ask a more senior nurse to come later to take the blood. Later on a male nurse arrived and was able to do it after failing the first time. He then carried out an assessment on Grandma for the doctors to see. We now await results from this in the next few days. Mr Swinn the consultant will see the test results and make any decisions necessary. Jenny came round for a while after her a few days in Derbyshire. This helped Grandma as she seems to brighten up when talking to visitors.
Jenny is going to do a little shopping for us tomorrow. Thank you Jenny.
In talking on SKYPE with Jamie I mentioned that we had changed the bag after 2 1/2 days and he replied " Crikey it must be a big bag ". No Jamie, it gets emptied several times a day. Well it's time for my nightcap and off up the wooden hill a little earlier tonight as I was up at about 4am as Grandma was suffering with heartburn and I couldn't sleep, so I went and made a cup of tea which settled us down, next thing it was 8am. Strange how we British resort to a cuppa in times of stress.
That's it for now folks. Once again thank you for you support. GRANDPA B.