The day started of with a journey to town on snow rutted roads and an expectation of a terrible journey to Aberdeen only to find that once we were on the Nairn road the snow had gone and the roads were clear.
With the expectation of bad roads we had set of early and arrived at the hospital 2 hours ahead of visiting. We duly arrived at the high dependency unit to find that Dad hadn't been shifted after all and was still in ITU. So we'd just spent 2 hours hanging around the corridors when we could have been visiting!
The decision not to move Dad was made because because his heart had gone out of rhythm and was racing at a good old lick. They were giving him medication to bring it back to normal. He was still heavily sedated and was still in bed. None of the post operative tubes had been removed. So the information I was getting on the 'phone from the hospital didn't quite match up to the reality.
Poor soul, with being kept flat for four days he'd developed a bed sore so he's been put on a a special air mattress to relieve that. As he's still on the morphine he wont be feeling that at the moment.
Kerri - having the humour of a 14 year old - thought the effects of the morphine particularly funny and intends to tell everybody that her Gramps was stoned!
We stayed until four taking short visits each - SK & Richard came over from Dundee again - and then left Dad to sleep. I told him about this blog and asked did he have a message and he said to thank you all for praying for him.
When I came home I 'phoned and spoke to the doctor and he said that the heart was now back in rhythm and that he was doing well. The intention was to transfer him straight from ITU to a ward today which given the progress so far seemed a bit odd. He expected Dad to be discharged in five to seven days. As Dad hadn't even gotten as far a chair that seemed very optimistic, I suspect that was generic advise rather than particular to Dad.
So more news as I get it.
Love Lala
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