Hi everyone

What a busy week it's been.
I am so proud of Tom , he has been doing great getting used to having a catheter and we are off again to the hospital tomorrow morning to have it changed over.


We had a traumatic day about a couple of weeks ago. Tom rang me at John Lewis where I work
and told me he had been unable to go to the loo since the night before.
I phoned up Ann, our Macmillian nurse, who told me to take him straight to A&E at Kingston.

We got to A&E in no time and after telling them Tom's history , they were quick to act.
They did an ultrasound of his bladder and kidneys first and it was clear he was quite full.
Then a doctor tried putting a catheter in, no luck, then they tried for the second time , again no luck. They just could not get it passed the blockage between the prostate and bladder.
All of a sudden he started bleeding as if you had opened a tap, it was horrific , but apparently quite normal and often looks worse than what it is.
They had to call for a consultant urologist to come over especially who tried with a specific instrument and I remember that one of her junior doctors looked distinctly pale and left the cubicle at the sight of all the blood. That made us laugh a bit.

Tom eventually went into theatre for a general anasthetic to have the catheter inserted as it was too uncomfortable to carry on .
It was only a small procedure and he was a different person when he woke up.
One of our neighbours was the recovery nurse so he had a bit of a moan about the day to her
and the fact he was starving!!!

Tom stayed for a couple of nights and then came back home and has recovered well.

We spend the day in Richmond on Tuesday and had a great time , Tom is walking well and he full of energy.

Oh, and before I forget , we have decided to get married and are now busy planning the wedding on the 20 February, yes , only little over 2 weeks away.

We must be mad, I know.


Keep you posted how it goes with Tom tomorrow.


Martina