Just a quick update this evening.
This morning Chris was pretty chirpy, his pain was much better and his blood pressure down. They had got him to sit up in a chair for about an hour as a way to start mobilising him which he handled really well. I left at around 12.30pm with him feeling not too bad all things considered.
After an interlude at home sorting out the handover of childcare duties (thanks Doug and Dad) I got back to the hospital at about 4.30pm. Poor Chris was in a huge amount of pain again, his blood pressure had gone back up and he was very subdued.
We had been warned that these ups and downs would be part of the recovery, and have been told that it is likely he will have a pretty down day tomorrow. We just have to keep taking things one step at a time.
I'm not wanting to end on too down a note, so today's good news, and something that did put a bit of a sparkle in Chris's eye this evening, he's been told that he might be allowed to drink a cup of tea tomorrow evening. Tea!
Hi Sarah, he did get plenty of practice drinking tea when he was a hard working fire fighter. Let him know I'm thinking of getting my nurses uniform out and paying a visit to administer some special Dave's treatment if he lays around in that hospital pit too long. Great to hear he's been out of the bed already. You lot take care of each other and get though it. Love from DW and the crazy gang.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the updates Sarah, hope he gets his cuppa! X
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