Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The continuing nightmare – update.

There have been some developments since my last nightmare post. Some of you might have already read some of this in the comments but for those who haven’t here is a little update.

Last Thursday my friend had to go into hospital for a lumbar puncture. Unfortunately they weren’t able to get any of the cerebrospinal fluids so we had to make another appointment.
He felt a bit better (his condition is improving but progress is slow) on Friday and decided to go home for a few days. Yesterday however he was back again, according to him because he missed my excellent cooking and nursing care ;) Nah, he had the new appointment today.

This morning we went to hospital for the second lumbar puncture. This time around they did it with x-ray assistance which turned out very helpful because now they were able to get the fluids they were after. Hooray!

Two hours (the procedure only took 15 minutes) later we were heading home again. You just got to love outpatient service! My friend will stay here tonight so that I can keep an eye on him and will be going back to his place tomorrow night. Hooray again!

The most significant results will be in shortly. NOT! It will take 10 days or so, but that’s okay in the meantime we can have some R&R and private “me” time :)

5 comments:

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Anonymous said...

At least he is still your friend, even after all this!

Phil said...

So, the story continues - Keep us posted!
No news is good news I guess :]

b o o said...

oh good to hear. a well-deserved rest to u {{Dakota}}

hope it goes well for your friend with the results :)

Dakota said...

Of course he is still my friend, Lord Hutton. We’ve been friends for a very long time now and I don’t see why an illness and all the circumstances connected with it would end our friendship. It’s not like he planned it or anything.

I will, DoGGa. Let’s hope there will be no more posts about this. I always love a happy ending :-)

Thank you, {{Boo}}. We have to wait and see now, fingers crossed hey!