In Again!

I was going to wait until Wednesday before I started chivvying the hospital, but it became clear by lunchtime Tuesday that Roger was in pain and very despondent. I made a snap decision to ring the surgeon's secretary and see if the referral letter had indeed been sent, and was it marked urgent?

His secretary didn't know what I was talking about. It seems that they'd told Roger what they were going to do, but had neglected to tell the secretary. Jolly good job I rang!! No letter had been sent.

I told her that Roger had been sent home to wait for an appointment at St. Mark's, but he could not sit down or walk far, and could only lie on the bed or sofa, and he couldn't go on like that. She said she would speak to the surgeon. She very quickly got back to me and said that the surgeon had said that if Roger is that bad he must come back in, because it would be weeks before we would hear from St. Mark's. Why did they send him home last Saturday then?? He went in again on Tuesday evening, but so far hasn't progressed from Clinical Decisions Unit. When I left him at 5.00 this evening, the surgeon had still not been down to see him. Hopefully he will be down later on this evening. More anon..............