You Won't Believe This!

You won't believe this......I couldn't!

I went in to see Roger this afternoon (first time since his operation yesterday) and he was in alot of pain from his very swollen undercarriage. No morphine had been given since he came up last night, because it has to be written up by a doctor,, and when she arrived she was totally ineffectual couldn't make a decision & left without doing anything. Roger was generally underwhelmed with her.

He was v unhappy and then Mr F (his surgeon) appeared. He said "I'm not really working today, but just popped in to quickly check on my patients. How are you Mr. Singer?" Roger told him that he was in alot of pain, not from the wound, but from the swelling. Mr. F had a look & said "That will have to be lanced. I'll get on to theatre now and organise it for this afternoon. In the meantime I'll write you up for some morphine."

I said to the surgeon "Roger was in alot of pain yesterday from his undercarriage and he was on Oramorph when he went down to theatre yesterday, could you tell me why it wasn't lanced then?" He said "I'm sorry but we weren't aware of that!"

How could he not be aware of it!! He knows what was happening to Roger, so how could he just mend the leak, and do sod all about the faeces already in the system?? I find that incredible!

There's no question that he's a very caring and experienced surgeon and very approachable, so I just don't know the answer. What I do know is Roger had yet another 'general' at goodness knows how much extra expense to the health service, not to mention personal trauma to himself.

I had to leave soon after that, but hopefully it's all done and he's back on the ward now. I trust I will find him happier tomorrow when I visit.