Carol's operation took place late on 13th June and seems to have gone OK, with the tumour removed. After 24 hours in ITU, she was transferred to the 4th Floor cardiothoracic ward in the Heart Hospital.
She has been in quite a lot of pain at times, at the site of the sternotomy incision, but also the "stab" wounds where the drain tubes for the left and right pleura and mediastinum enter the thoracic cavity. They may come out tomorrow so that should help .
She is utterly exhausted, with quite limited breathing at the moment. She said that just "being" was all she could manage. It was an "all-consuming" effort. She dozed off several times during the time I was there today (Thursday 14th June), but then a lot of people do that when I talk to them.
Godfrey.
P.S. Little "Ridley", as we call him, has been sent off to Histopathology to see if they can tell more about what kind of miracle of nature he is.
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She is utterly exhausted, with quite limited breathing at the moment. She said that just "being" was all she could manage. It was an "all-consuming" effort. She dozed off several times during the time I was there today (Thursday 14th June), but then a lot of people do that when I talk to them.
Godfrey.
P.S. Little "Ridley", as we call him, has been sent off to Histopathology to see if they can tell more about what kind of miracle of nature he is.
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