Hospital Souvenirs

While in the hospital I received some lovely gifts.

I wanted to thank my mother, sister O, and my sister D, for the lovely flowers, chocolates and bear. The flowering plant ... sorry don't know the name ... has these very pretty yellow flowers. There are many new buds that will be gorgeous once they open up.

I also wanted to thank my sister A, for visiting me daily.

I wanted to thank Audrey for calling around the city to each hospital and tracking me down. She came to see me within half an hour of me being released which meant I never got a chance to use any of the items however ... this is a wonderful hospital care package. It included; an Oprah magazine, chocolates, hand cream, a pen and booklet to keep notes and some silly putty ... to keep a good sense of humor.

I wish I would have had a pen and paper when I first got there so that I could record some of the stuff that went on in the hospital ... because while I laid there ... I had all these ideas for the blog but now they are all gone.

When I went into the hospital on Sunday night, I really thought they would give me a prescription for some antibiotics and off I'd go ... never did I think I'd be in the hospital for 3 days 3 nights. That was a bit of a shocker.

I'd mentioned in an earlier post that the surgeons took out my catheter at 2:30 on Sunday morning but prior to that, they took blood samples via the catheter and my foot. Once they removed the catheter, they cut of the end piece that had been in my body and sent it to the lab. They also took a swab of the hole from which the catheter was removed. Again this was sent to the lab. Apparently, what they do is grow a culture of the infection and see what it is ... that way they can more accurately treat the infection. The doctors told me what it was but because I never wrote it down I just can't be sure. It was something quite common and they said there is nothing I did wrong in maintaining the catheter ... these things just happen. That made me feel better.

Anyways everything turned out O.K. in the end ... and that is a good thing.