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28th February

What could be better than to be woken up first thing in the morning by a charming little nurse called Cherry Yip, originally from HongKong. Cherry goes about her work with quiet efficiency and her ready smile makes both Sean and myself  feel better about what the day has in store for us.

Fortunately, we have both had a good night’s sleep and can possibly look forward to discharge from hospital if we receive the right results from tests due to be carried out during the day.

As Gail will testify I am something of a hoarder but she probably never thought that it would stretch to small plastic pill containers. When the nurse came to provide me with my pills she found 17 neatly stacked containers. I may be a hoarder but at least I’m tidy-minded! 

My surgeon Dr Sharma arrives to tell me that he can give me the green light to go home today.

Seemingly the Atrial Fibrillation apparent the previous day is settling down and in any event AF is often the post-op side effect of such operations. Dr Sharma  motioned with his hands to indicate it resulted from his having to manually touch my heart. When I interpreted his hand motions as ‘manhandling’ my heart he showed mock indignation that anyone would categorise his delicate surgical work as ‘manhandling’!

Sadly Sean did not receive the green light as his INR ( blood coagulation rating ) is stubbornly refusing to rise to the required level of 2.00 so he has to stay until tomorrow. We will keep our fingers crossed for him. Sean has been a great cell-mate and our sharing has i think been mutually beneficial. We certainly undertake to stay in touch further down the track.

Check out of hospital mid-afternoon and arrive back at Lyn and Bert’s house about 5 pm.

Finish off the day viewing the photos Craig had taken of me while I was still under and looking very much like someone on life support, which of course I was. Probably not conducive to a good night’s sleep but I am going to do my best.

Good night and cheers

The Obese Ferret.