Grandma P's Ramblings Through Life

Grandma P will be in the hospital until Monday or possibly beyond. On Monday she will have more blood tests for the Electrolytes and will also see the Dietitian regarding Low Potassium Diets, so no Bananas or Tomatoes and probably a list of other forbidden items. She has had an Arterial Blood test, this is taken from the artery and tests for Oxygen levels and other blood gases plus she has had Anti Blood clotting injections. This afternoon while Grandpa was with her a visit was made by Dr Foster from the General Medicine Dept who has doubled up her Bi-Carb dose and said she should be on a low Potassium diet, I think she may see him again on Monday. ( this is not the Dr Foster from Gloucester). I think things are progressing as she was feeling a lot better today. An out patients appointment to see Dr Foster has been made for three weeks time. Grandpa B was going to take a bus ride into town this morning but after several phone calls from family and friends he decided perhaps a nice cuppa would be better than tramping around in the damp. After visiting Grandma , Grandpa drove home to get his tea. This took longer than normal as it took about 1/2 hour to get out of the car park. Friday night and the entrance area gets very crowded. The access to the hospital is not very good as the road has to pass under a narrow railway arch with busy traffic lights at one end of it. So Grandpa has had his tea and is going to sister Jane's house for a little get together for nephew Barrie's birthday number 30. Only seems like yesterday when he was a wee lad.

We look forward to tomorrow to see how things are progressing. Grandma's brother Roger and wife Sue from Wiltshire are visiting tomorrow stopping off on their way to Uncle Billy who lives at Paddock Wood in Kent, so they will have a busy day. Thank you Roger and Sue.

Time now to publish this epic piece and pop over to Jane's for a while.....GRANDPA B.