Roger was instructed to be at the hospital at 7.30am. He was told he would be second on the list, therefore breakfast was a glass of water at 6.00am. By 9.00am he was back and knocking at the front door. Apparently the plastics surgeon(doing the hernias) could not get there (we'd previously been told by Mr. Farouk's secretary, that it had all been sorted and Mr Uppal would be there) until 1.30pm as he had been double booked and couldn't get out of the morning booking (obviously a private patient) everyone on the team knew this, but neglected to tell the patient. Roger had instructions to return to the Royal Berks at 12.30, and he was allowed to drink water until 11.30am. Undaunted (you know Rog) off he went at the appointed hour, 2nd time lucky! We had been informed that the op would be 4 hours minimum.
I rang the ward at 6.30pm to see how he was, and I was told he wasn't up from theatre yet. When I rang at 7.30pm he still wasn't up from theatre. I said to the nurse "I understand he went down at 1.30pm for his surgery, I wonder what's keeping him?" She said "No! he went to theatre at 4.30pm."
If this was the case, he wouldn't be back on the ward until half an hour after close of visiting at the earliest!! She also mentioned that it's possible he might spend the night in ICU she didn't know at this stage. Anyway! I think we can safely say that knocks visiting on the head tonight.
Let's see what tomorrow brings!
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