Wednesday, September 15, 2010

A vast improvement

Joan has had the works at St John's hospital. All her meds and antibiotics went IV and she has avoided the nausea and most of the diarrhea. The potassium drip continues and she been transferred to the oncology ward.

The oncologist scheduled a CT scan aimed at diagnosing the cause of this major gastric attack. The report seemed, to this non-medic, inconclusive, however the onco said that it suggested that the tumours had progressed. We could see no reference to tumours or cancer in the report and assume that there must have been a second report describing the tumours. The onco told Joan not to worry because he couldn't see how they could make such an assessment as previous scans had been done at a government hospital, Royal Perth. He is to get back to her today after he looks at both this scan and the last one from Royal Perth. Hope he is right.

The nurses we have been dealing with at St John's are excellent. The doctor assigned to Joan's case seems a little lost and his English language skills are lacking.

She has been sitting up and reading, and that is a good sign, and there is a chance of being discharged before the weekend

Our son, Martin visited Joan with me and Helen also dropped in after work.
Helen, stayed over last night and we cooked a nice roast pork with baked vegetables. Lovely!

1 comment:

Bernie said...

Thank you for the update.....this is wonderful news, just knowing how everything has settled down, Joan must be so relieved. I am so happy for her.....sending many hugs from Canada.......:-)