A Second Night

Well - Loretta is just about to spend her second night back in the hospital. As I had mentioned in the previous post she was highly opposed to stay in at all and it took her a fair while to succumb to the idea once again. I stayed with her all the way through the day until the early evening when she finally relented and I drove home to fetch her a host of things that she required for staying as we were unprepared for this. An hour after getting home  I drove back to find her quietly dozing and seeing as it was getting late I did not stay long.

Some of her staples were removed on Friday and the remainder have been taken out today. Early swab indications found no infection in the wound but this was to change with later swab tests hence her pain and discomfort and why the medical team were insistent on her staying. Whilst she was still trying her hardest to come home, I pointed out to her what would I be able to do with her at home if the wound opened there - an hours drive back to the hospital and her in agony. I guess when you are the actual patient and do not want to stay in the hospital a moment longer then common sense does not prevail.

She has had a bit of a tough time in there because of the noise and dealing with certain sicknesses of other patients around her. At least she has her netbook computer with her and with plenty of films and TV to watch using it and a pair of headphones she can block out much of what is going on. The other reason why she was so opposed to staying in was because it was the weekend and that is when it seems to be that more monitoring is going on than actual fixing. In her case though (although she is still having trouble accepting it) it is really the monitoring that she needs the most and although of course I would love to have her at home and love her getting herself better in an environment that she would be 100% more comfortable in - right now unfortunately for her she really does need to stay there until they can finally let her come back here again and this time hopefully make a true recovery.