Not Going Home Yet - New Room and Phone Number

New Room - New Extension Phone Number

Kidd Wing, 6th floor, Room 641, Bed 2     K641-2 for short
613-549-6666 ext 6956 

View of lake instead of curtain - nice


Breaking News: I'm Not Going Home Until Friday at the Earliest

My surgeon came in before lunch just as Anne and Norah arrived and no I will not be going home today.

I expect to have a stent put in tomorrow so that digestive fluids can flow from my liver to my intestine and that should improve my digestion and get rid of the jaundice and the itch that goes with it.  Then I will likely go home Friday.

By then they will have results from yesterday's biopsy and I hope they will have a plan in place for therapy.

So most of what I wrote earlier today no longer applies.  The bit about the raccoon chewing up my Internet connection still does.


The young doctor group usually comes in earlier than the older ones.  They were here about 6:30 and announced that they would take me off the IV again and if I didn't dry out and if I kept food down they might send me home later today.


So if you are planning to come today don't until you have checked back here and found something more definite or phoned here (613 549 6666 ext 6940) or talked to Anne.  If you like sitting in an empty hospital room or visiting with my roommate (who will likely go home too) or with our replacements then feel free to come anyway.


Of course I might not go home if the older doctors have other ideas or if I throw up my breakfast.


Norah Watson was planning to bring Anne to visit today so they can be the ones to take me home.

Anne won't know this yet because our Internet is not working at home, thanks to a raccoon with a wire-chewing fetish.  That means I can't email or blog either once I leave here.  I don't know how long it will take to get things going again at home.  This happened last spring too so maybe it is time to change the way Internet is connected to the house.  I'll wait until after 8 am to phone her - she will need all the rest she can get if she has to start looking after me again.

Of course, even if I go home, I'll be coming back here soon for some combination of therapy and surgery.

I'll post more when I know more.