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• Firstly, the evening that my My 13 day stay in Hospital
draining tubes were taken As you all know the Consultant
out, I coughed and had an and/or his Registrar and team
excruciating pain in my left come round to see you every day.
side and screamed. Next On one of these occasions they
thing I knew there were realised that my wound/incision
about eight nursing staff was infected. I also had a chest
around my bed. I ended up infection and this Oral thrush. So
going down to have my not allowed home until I was fully
chest X-rayed about 1am on the mend and a District Nurse
only to be told I was okay, had been organised to visit me to
thankfully. change my dressings.
• Secondly, for some
unknown reason my lower This leads me on to my next point.
half was really swollen and
the Doctor on the ward Don’t fib about how you feel
brought about three different after your Op
people at various times to The guy in the next bed to me
check me out and see what always said to the team each day
was going on. I was given a that he felt great, no problems,
diuretic and eventually the always walked further than I could
swelling went down, and I but when he was back in bed, to
looked okay. me he looked bright red in the face
• Thirdly, I poked my tongue and panting with breath. He said he
out at Anne Phillips, was told he was a textbook patient
because my mouth felt dry and released from hospital after
and horrible, not because I seven days. I felt I was more
was being rude, and she interesting to the teams because of
immediately exclaimed, “Oh all my problems and side effects.
you have oral thrush. I will
have to get you some
medication and rushed off”.
OOSO Meeting
The Manor Hotel
The food Weston on the Green
I am sure we all have different 29 June 2019
feelings about the food and how it
is presented to us. Pureed, I
thought was disgusting. Even at
home it never tasted the same as
normal food, then soft and mashed
which was better, slowly getting
back to normal. Apart from the
Dietician coming to see me on a
regular basis the booklets and
information on the correct food was
extremely good. Oh, and the
Vampire, does anyone remember
her, she came around every
morning to take blood from you. I
suppose it was to check your
vitamin levels.

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