Insufficient output

Saturday 16th February

Tim is still unable to get online and short of hanging out of a window or sitting on the end of someone else's bed he has had to leave the blog to me again.

He called me first thing to say he had had  a reasonably good nights sleep, for hospital anyway. As he said the treatment didn't finish till gone midnight, then they woke him again at 3am to take his blood pressure, then the cleaner comes round to change the bin bag at 7 and so on. Not conducive to getting a full 8 hours. His appetite is waning but much better than this time last treatment and when I went in at lunch time with some rolls he ate them both, albeit slowly. The extra anti-sickness is definitely contributing to this which is good, anything that helps him to eat and keep his strength up has a thumbs up from me.

We even managed to go for a stroll outside for a few minutes this afternoon which was break from the ward for him. He had managed to break out this morning too so has had a double dose of fresh air today. Added excitement to the walk was the fact that an air ambulance was just about to take off. Have to admit we stood and watched and sadly took photos to show Ben, although the days when he was impressed by that sort of thing have sadly passed! All the times we have been to the hospital and that was actually the first time we have seen any activity on the helipad. As I left another had just landed so we got our quota of sightings all in one day.

And now to the reason for today's title. He rang me a little while ago to say they were having to give him extra saline and a water tablet as he wasn't weeing enough. They like you to pass out as much as has gone in and so far today he has managed feeble amounts. The chemo can damage the kidneys so they like them to be flushed through hence all the saline at the beginning and end of sessions. It's a pain this happening as it puts his treatment back further so means he will be even later finishing tonight, and also tomorrow. Hopefully output will soon increase and he can have a go at exceeding his record of 1 ltr in one go....even I was impressed with that!!

Still in private room at the moment, fingers crossed that he keeps it tonight too. If all emergencies can just hang on until we leave tomorrow night please!

Mandy