Update on my husbands DVT

[Chickadee]

Hubby was transferred to the London hospital on Wednesday and had surgery on Friday.

Clot was in his lower abdomen and was by all accounts massive and causing blockage in vein from groin to knee.

Not entirely sure what they did but they went in through the back of his knee and put a stent into his abdomen and some medicine into the vein.

When I saw him yesterday his leg was aleady a little less swollen and Doctor reckons it should be a lot better by tomorrow. So hopefully he can come home soon.

Thank you for all your kind wishes during the last week - even cyber wishes are comforting. Will let you all know when he is home.

[boxtops]

Thanks for the update, chickadee - what a blessing that he did in the end get to the hospital. The clot could have caused all sorts of future problems - no wonder his leg was swollen. You must be relieved that something's been done. How is he in himself, now?

[Sqad]

Good news eh! .....you mean the Royal London on the Whitechapel Road,

[Chickadee]

Thanks for replies.

Yes, Sqad I do mean the Royal London. The care he is receiving is excellent.

boxtops, he seems much better, more cheerful and less worried.

[Sqad]

Chick....I am biased, as that is where I qualified....it was just the London then, before it got it´s Royal Charter.

[woofgang]

Chickadee that is good news! I am glad he is safe.
Are they calling it the Royal London now? When I was a student there (Occupational Therapy clinical placement) nearly 40 years ago, it was just called The London. The OT bulk store was right at the top of the building actually behind the clock face on the facade. Lucky the student who drew the job of topping up the satellite stores, getting to spend the day wandering through the hidden places of the Hospital.

[Chickadee]

Hi

Yes it is now called The Royal London Hospital, although most londoners still call it "The London".

[Sqad]

woofgang....we are both "Old Londoners"..;-)

Did you ever go to the "At Homes" in the Medical College?

[woofgang]

No Sqad, I was only there for 6 weeks. We had 3 month placements and I did 6 weeks there and six week down the road at the Bethnal Green Hospital. That was an eye opener....many many homeless people with varying addictions. There was a daily report on which wards were closed to non ward staff (Ot's, physios, the almoner etcetera) for fumigation. The medical records department was overrun with rats and mice while I was there so some bright spark had the idea of luring in the feral cats which lived in the grounds....replacing the rats and mice with fleas and ticks!
It was an amazing experience. The nurses still wore starched caps with lace cuffs and cap tails on high days and holidays. Ward sisters were known by the name of their ward and were always addressed as "sister so and so" and students had to seek out the senior nurse on duty and ask permission to enter the ward and see patients at every ward visit.
...sorry, thread hijack

[Sqad]

woofgang.......LOL

Half way through my medical training, I was short of money and had to find some night work. I applied for and was appointed "Ward Orderly" on nights at Bethnal Green Hospital and it was fabulous. The nurses knew that I was a med student from the London, so after giving out the night drinks to the patients, they tucked me up in a chair in front of a roaring fire which was in the ward LOL. I was awakened at Night Sister`s round, went back to sleep again...gave out the breakfasts in the morning and then during the day back to the studies at the London.

Funny....wit all the squalor that you have mentioned, MRSA was never a problem...or even identified. Discipline was the order of the day and respect.

Oh! for a bit of that in the NHS now.

[woofgang]

There were fleas, lice and ticks, but I don't remember dirt as such...certainly toilets and bathrooms were spotless and patients, even the poor damaged souls at Bethnal Green, wouldn't have dreamed of doing what i saw recently in a hospital, where a patient ate a cake and a banana and dropped the cake paper and skin on the floor....24 hours later they were still there :-(

[Sqad]

woofgang...."tell me about it"

Luckily people over the decades have been "brainwashed" as how good the NHS is, but, although parts of it are good, it has never been and certainly isn´t now....the "envy of the world"

[bednobs]

hi chickadee, so pleased to hear it. I'm not surprised he is less scared now - when i had an abdominal DVT they treated me like i might die at any minute and i was so relieved when i woke up every morning, i used to text my husband and say "still alive!"

[Chickadee]

Hi bednobs

Thanks. The treatment he is getting is really good. He is in the high dependency unit at the moment but they are hoping to put him back onto the vascular surgery ward later today or tomorrow.

Much relieved, feel like large weight has been removed from my chest!

[Eastender]

I was born at the London Hospital. Lived near it, and remember those nurses uniforms that they wore, you've made me fill old lol.

[woofgang]

ha you wait till he's home and wingeing lol

[Sqad]

Eastender...LOL try these to make you feel old:

The Blind Beggar
The Good Samariton
The Grave Maurice.
The London Hospital Tavern
Wally for wireless.
Ben somebody´s welk stand......?Issac´s

They should make you feel young...LOL

[woofgang]

I didn't do the pubs round there but used to go out to the Prospect of Whitby with my BF (now DH) and join in the singing.

[Sqad]

woofgang...Prospect of Whitby was reserved for "specials"....you were obviously " special".......;-)

[Eastender]

Tubby Issacs, I want some jellied eels now. Still visit the Prospect of Whitby now and then, they do a lovely sunday lunch. Eastend so many memories. Hope all goes well chickadee with the other half.

[woofgang]

sqad.... was then, still am :-)