Things are great. Logan is off TPN and his NG feed is at his ideal rate of 75mls an hour. The move down the other end went well, but he wasnt able to leave his room much because of the catheters. (he wasnt able to wear pants with them).
The first catheter was taken out on monday that was pretty straight forward. Yesterday the catheter that goes through his stomach was due to come out, so the nurse came along with her tools and bottle of laughing gas. What is supposed to happen is you deflate the balloon of its fluid and it should pull out, but this didnt happen, the tube only came out so far then stopped. She tried a couple of times but stopped because she wasnt sure why it wouldnt come out.
The surgeons were called to come and take a look. Five and a half hours later they came. They were told to come back in the morning as it was 9.30 at night. 7am she was back, had a look and decided that she was going to just pull it out. The reason she said it never came out yesterday was because the hole had closed up a bit but a good yank would get it out.
So Logan was given panadol, tramadol and laughing gas. The Doctor got hold of the tube and just pulled the balloon out through his stomach. I couldnt believe it. It hurt him so much that he reached down and grabbed hold of the surgeons hand to get her away from him. He was then given oxynorm, thats a painkiller also.
The transplant coordinator cant believe they did that to him, she said he should have gone into theatre to have it removed. She is going to speak to higher powers.
So now he has another bravery bead.
The best news is today we are moving to Ronald McDonald House. Yesterday we went down to have a look. Its a transplant unit and fully self contained, very nice, and yes it has sky sport.
Logan has had his room decorated with All Black posters and flags amongst other things. This drew the attention of Jo, she is the nurse educator up here, she is also English. She would tease him that one day he would wake up and find pictures of English players in his room. Logan told her that seeing that would make him sicker. One day Logan decided to make a poster for her office door, it said "Jo loves the All Blacks" and it had silver streamers hanging off it. It is really quite large. The next morning she got to work and was on the war path wanting to know who did it. She was told, then came to see Logan and told him it was great but just you wait. It is still on the door, she will keep it there untill the world cup ends.
A couple of days later Jo had made him a poster, on it she had put photos of English players and it said "Logan loves English players", she put this on his door facing inwards. Logan screwed his nose up but had a good laugh about it.
But Logan couldnt leave it at that, as today is our last day here he decided to make another poster. This one is a picture of Johnny Wilkinson he got out of a magazine, he also got a picture of an All Blacks jersey. He glued the All Blacks jersey onto Johnny Wilkinson so it looks like he's wearing it and wrote beside it "English players dream of becoming an All Black", and put this on her office door beside the other one. Jo loves it. I have taken photos so can show you at a later date.
At the moment Logan is having his intragram, and we're waiting to hear if he needs platelets, then we are OUT OF HERE!
Oh Logan, that catheter removal sounds awful!! Must be great to have them both out though now.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have been having some fun with of the staff. Great to hear that you are now in RMH and have sky tv so you won't miss any of the rugby.
Really good to hear the fantastic progress you are making
Darren, Deborah, Katie and Ayden
Whooo! looks like your on the road to recovery good that you can get to ronald mcdonald house looking forward to seeing you back at skool sometime soon!
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Yeah boi. watching the rugby world cup? Cant wait to see you! Miss u! Thats true english players wish they were all blacks. the even changed there colour of there Jesrsy to black so it looks like they are in the all blacks! Hopeing to see u by this year Get better soon.
ReplyDeleteFrom your buddy fergus! (: get better soon!
HI Jenni, Logan & whanau
ReplyDeleteso how is the inner city apartment aka RMH? I bet you are glad to have a change of scenery. Wishing you a speedy recovery Logan and look forward to seeing you both back here in the bay ASAP. (btw - is the Fergus who commented above, Fergus Grant?) If so his sister is Alyse's friend from Iona.
hi logan sounds like you r getting better like to see you still pulling pranks on people. hope to see you soon we all missing you
ReplyDeletesorry that last one was from gus
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