Tuesday 11 September 2012

Adam's medical updates from Andrew 3/3


Adam was taken to surgery at 3:00 pm UK time to have the cranioplasty done. The op takes about 90 minutes , plus about the same in recovery so he should be back in HDU at around 6:30 UK time.

We have been having difficulties with the hospital. Adam is too well to be on HDU. However, the chest infection means that for now he has to be kept in an isolation room. Isolation rooms do not have monitors, so under the normal running of the ward he can be left unattended for long periods of time. Normally patients would be in beds opposite the nurses station so that they can be observed. It was while he was in the isolation room that he had the fever and rigor where he started shaking, couldn’t breathe and started turning blue. As I mentioned earlier, luckily Adele was in the room at the time.

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