{"id":2527,"date":"2019-08-02T09:38:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T08:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2019-08-02T09:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T08:38:48","slug":"friday-2nd-august-home-i-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/hospital-stay\/friday-2nd-august-home-i-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 2nd August&#8230;. Home? (I hope!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t quite believe I have been here for a week!  Definitely time to go home!<\/p>\n<p>I had my unit of blood last night<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/D0870F31-E790-404F-9A9C-6117D7F140E1-e1564734540337.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/D0870F31-E790-404F-9A9C-6117D7F140E1-e1564734540337-188x250.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much the same as the platelets, but a much darker colour!  However the transfusion was not without its moments and an hour in to the three hour transfusion I suffered \u2018Canula failure\u2019!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/4DC147ED-1AD0-4B41-B910-9FF9A6AC1A6B.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/images\/4DC147ED-1AD0-4B41-B910-9FF9A6AC1A6B-250x168.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2526\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blood is (as is said) thicker than water, and I supposevthe infusion pressure was a bit higher and as the Cannula had been in place for three days it had become a bit displaced (it was in the crook of my arm &#8211; not the best place) and started leaking.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long to replace it (in my forearm) and the rest continued uneventfully.<\/p>\n<p>And I had a drip free night last night!  I have had an early morning blood test, so I hope that will give a more meaningful cortisol level result, and pending thatvand the ward round, I hope I\u2019ll be going home.<\/p>\n<p>My lip is still a bit swollen and I keep dislodging the scab, but the other cuts are healing nicely and the bruises are slowly fading.<\/p>\n<p>So Onwards and Upwards (and homewards!) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t quite believe I have been here for a week! Definitely time to go home! I had my unit of blood last night Much the same as the platelets, but a much darker colour! However the transfusion was not without its moments and an hour in to the three hour transfusion I suffered \u2018Canula [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-stay","category-more-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}