Frid 11th Mar

While driving to the hosp we get a phone call from one of the nurses from 407 the doctor has asked her to call and discuss arrangements for Lins to be discharged, I'm gobsmacked she is still immobile receiving oxygen potassium heparin infusions and still weeing into a catheter!!!!  We tell her we are on our way and can discuss all this with the Doctor when we arrive.  When we get to the ward we are told that the Docs are doing their morning rounds and will talk to us as soon as they are free.  We go see Lins she seems well and happy we spend  a while chatting with her the physio pops by and says she wants to get her up and in her chair before lunch. One of the nurses tells us she wants to wash Lindseys hair this is great news as it really needs it, we go to waiting room to wait for the Doc, after about 30 mins the nurse says we can go back to ward, Lins is sitting up in her chair with newly washed hair she looks amazing so nice to see her looking like her old self, by now its gone 12 still no Doc David has to go back to work . The nurse assures me the Doc will come and talk to me when he is free The student nurse comes to fill in some paperwork for Lins discharge she seems to think she is going home tomorrow. I would be over the moon to take Lins home tomorrow as it is now 3 weeks since she came into hospital, however there is the huge problem of her being immobile, I tell the nurse again that Lins is not her old self ,she is normally active and independent she looks surprised, she asks about what help we will need for Lins to come home I ask about her being placed on a rehab ward until she is strong enough to move on her own she says she will discuss this with the doctor. Lunch arrives well I use the term loosely it is supposed to be risotto which Lins and I both enjoy,it is dried up rice looks most un appetising and I feel cruel for trying to make her eat it, desert is sponge cake and custard and the cake is brick hard,it really is true what they say about hospital food!!! At around 150 still no Doctors have appeared and the nurses come to put Lins back in bed as they are moving her to her own side room, I go off and have a cup of tea.  Lins now has her own room and a tv at last so she can have something to do when we are not around.Lindsey has some more visitors this afternoon they are from Alternatives Maureen and Natalie, I take the opportunity to go home and have a break still no Doctor has attempted to speak to me!!!! Nicola visits at 4pm Lindsey is now exhausted and sleeping.  In the interim David has managed to speak to the elusive Dr Selby on the phone, I find it amazing that he is the consultant assigned to my daughter she has been in his care for 8 days I have spent all day everyday at the hospital and not once has he had the courtesy to come and make himself known or offer any kind of updates this has all been left to the nurses.  He says that the kidney has repaired itself and only needs potassium level topping up, her heparin and warfarin are being monitored and the clots should be under control, he has no idea why she has been referred to a neurologist, he says that Lins is having her cast on ankle replaced on Monday with one that should let her put some weight on it which will help with getting her mobile.