Rash Decision

Bloggettes,

Its been a nightmare day.

It started well.I got THE CALL at 8am and was on the road to Newcastle by 8.50am. Staffordshire Ambulance blokes played a blinder and got us up in 3 hours!

When I got there I was x-rayed, they took swabs, blood and virtually ever kind of test was done on me....I shaved myself (I now have a shaved chest!)

I even had one of those antiseptic showers......ready for THE OP...I even signed the consent form...

But then disaster struck....They picked up on an area of dry skin on my chest, where the operation incision will be...and cancelled the operation...in case of infection.

I was gutted. Not the least because I have had this dry skin for a couple of years. Its a side-effect of all the antibiotics I am on...It gets worse with stress.

I even finally got seen by a specialist on Monday at Hammerwich Hospital who gave me some tablets which should clear it up...

I can't go back on the list until it does clear up...

I am angry that this wasn't considered a problem or a barrier to me having a transplant before....If it had gone ahead there was a high risk of death.

Presumably any of my other false alarms I had the risk too!

Any infection, however small, would be hard for me to fight off in those crucial hours post-transplant.....

This should have been sorted a long time ago....

We got home at about 6.30pm....Luckily the ambulance guys who took us up hadn't left back....so they brought us home and we didn't have to spend a night there.

Oh one good thing. I met 'my surgeon'. A very pleasant German man called Stefan.

I am so disappointed. I coukd even have been well for my birthday on 23rd if I had been done today...

If I deteriorate and become too ill to be transplanted I will ber so angry.

Just a thought....Ronnie Barker is dead and Lionel Blair is still alive...

*It is Jo+75 long-term Bloggites and day 557 for me on the transplant list....

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