I went into Canterbury to leave Mal’s phone with him. I had borrowed his while mine was repaired, the lovely nurse let me sneak in and see him for 5 minutes, then it wasn’t worth driving home again so I hung around Canterbury. Mal asked me to get some Yorkshire tea bags, so spent a while in Asda! Free parking there! Mal said the tea was awful in the hospital!
Back to the hospital at 2pm. Tris said he would be there early ie before 2, as usual he was late, turned up at 2.30!! Two doctors came to talk to us plus the consultant. (And this is in a double doctor strike!! They are certainly dedicated)
Briefly, Mal’s creatine levels were 2,200 (should be 2 figures), his potassium levels and BP were through the roof and his kidney function was down to 1% and what I hadn’t known was that he was “blue lighted” from QEQM to Canterbury hospital. The consultant (a lovely lady) suggested Mal should have listened to me in the first place! MEN!!!! He really is so stubborn. The positive that the creatine has halved. He may need dialysis but thinking twice about that but will need an operation but he needs all his obs to be sorted before any decisions. Tris stayed a couple of hours. I stayed until 6pm.
I went home exhausted and then had to make more phone calls, including Mal’s brother, who himself is not brilliant following 3 strokes.