Post-op

Charlie had the same surgery as Henry but Charlie's was two weeks ago. I wrote then that I was surprised how quickly things change after surgery. Well, we do learn and both Aly and I were prepared for Henry to get a bit worse. His blood pressure started to fall and they gave him some support medicine. Fortunately for us, Dr K., who was the fellow on our team before was working in The Tower on call. She kept us informed about how he was doing and what the plan was and that was a great help. The combination of us being prepared and us having confidence that we would get called if they were worried about anything meant we managed to make it through the night. 

Once we arrived at the hospital, meeting the doctors at rounds was a bit tricky. There are new people for us to meet and get to know. We are getting the impression that they think we are high maintenance. I should tell them that I need all the information that I ask about so that my blog is accurate!

Henry spent the morning getting worse, then sat at an acceptable level for a while but on quite a lot of support. He was peeing and, because we had been so prepared, I would say that Aly and I coped reasonably well. He looked terrible all day but both of us knew that he was going to get worse before he got better. 

Charlie started to play up a bit on Tuesday too.  He has a big belly, there isn't stool coming out of his ostomy and his urine output is dropping. We've been told by surgery to wait (X-rays are not showing blockages). Surgery telling us to wait and see - one of Aly's favourite things.

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