I'm Home

Home again, home again, jiggity jog.

For the first time in 19 days I got to breathe outside air as Anne, Stephen and Cal brought me home.

I'm set up in the living room with a hospital bed that Stephen bought through Kijiji.  I can walk around and sit in chairs and on the couch, but this gives me a comfortable place to lie down without being banished to the remoteness of the upstairs bedroom.

I still have the bile bag and have to dump it and record how much was in it.  Fortunately I don't have to record any other excretions.  I'm still quite tired and am looking forward to a night without IV alarms beeping and without neighbours throwing up.

A home care nurse will come in every day to change my meds and record my vitals.  In two weeks I go back as an outpatient and if my infection is down they will turn the valve on the bile bag so it drains inside my body to the small intestine as it should.  If that works then sometime later they will remove the external plastic plumbing and everything will drain inside.  If that does not work then they will do surgery to open the blockage on the stent.  Somewhere in there they will start chemotherapy too.

Deb Burgess is here too and took this picture: