Monday 1-03-2010

10 Days on and we are basically recovering from his surgery.

After days of listening to Simon asking every nurse when they go on their tea break.."oh, what are you going to eat?" He has advanced from a liquid diet to eating solids. We have quickly learned that the local makes a mean parmigana, which was top of the list of Simons requests after the cardboard meals they have at the hospital.

Simon was on Fentanyl (pain killer) immediately post op with a limit of every 5min intervals, and had been on it for 7 days before having it taken away. They replaced it with a Fentanyl patch, were he is still getting the pain killer, although it is slow release and he has no button to push. He is also taking a number of tablets which is a concoction of pregabalin, panadol, Tramadol, brown ones, and the little yellow ones that help his nerve pain relief.

He has his Physio in the mornings, and still having breathing tests, they are still forcing him to cough, which is them compressing on his stomach with force as he coughs.

He now has big elastic bands to start building up the strength in his arms which he is doing 3 times a day. They are getting things prepared for his move to Shenton Park, like the jacket which will be attached to the halo. We were told that he should be at Shenton Park by Thursday next week.

Brad was able to go to Shenton Park for us and take some photos and get some information. The time table looks like a boot camp, but we are looking forward to it all the same. It is the next part of the process as far as we are concerned, we get there and we get through it, as long as it takes.

He has been told things in the past couple of days that would scare the bravest of men.

Alexandra and Georgia are sad and wanting their Daddy to come home so they can look after him. So we are concerntrating on getting him home as soon as they give us the go ahead.

Thank you for the words of support and thank you to those who have been there already in so many different ways.