He saw his GP on Tuesday, but by the afternoon the hospital had asked him to come back in to the Hammersmith, particularly because there was concern about the Hickman line which has now been in for many weeks. He spent Tuesday night in a 'doing tests and thinking about it' ward, but it did not become clear until Wednesday that it had become necessary to change one of the antibiotics, and, since it can only be administered intravenously, it would mean being in hospital for at least five days. He has had a number of investigations, including x-ray and ECG, and they woke him up last night to have the Hickman line surgically removed some time in the small hours! By teatime today they were ready for him to be moved to a ward, and - you couldn't write the script - he is back in EXACTLY the same bed with the view of the train tracks in John Humphrey ward, which is supervised by the infectious diseases team.
Again it is not entirely clear how the thinking is progressing, but it seems that the Hickman line was causing some infection so now better out than in. The anitbiotic requires a hospital stay so we expect him to be an in-patient until at least Monday. We await the view of the cardiac team, but there is obviously some concern about the heart repair and whether this is the cause of the hemolysis, which is leading to aneamia, hence the blood transfusions. We look forward to more news tomorrow.
On the good news front, at least the hospital menu has changed from spring/summer to autumn/winter. Sounds more like a catwalk collection.
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