We saw Dawn Wednesday afternoon. She looked like she'd gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson - her eyes ere so puffy and bruised she could barely open them, and her head was bandaged to protect the wound and keep her skull from falling apart. She was very tired and in a lot of pain and finding it difficult to find a comfortable position to rest because ( Read more... )

Spoke to Dawn on the phone this morning. She has a lot of pain and is very tired. Will post again after we've seen her.

Dawn was scheduled to go to the surgical unit at 8:30. I waited until after lunch would have been cleared on the ward before phoning. They had had an emergency admission and she hadn't been seen yet, but she would be operated on this afternoon. She was very drowsy (presumably from pre-op) and it was not advisable for us to come in to see her ( Read more... )

I'm indebted toblueartemis07 for reminding me that I had left details from my reports ( Read more... )

They ran out of time for 'emergency' surgeries today so Dawn wasn't done. She's first on the list for tomorrow, due to go to the anaesthetist at 8:30 in the morning. Once under she faces two and a half hours in surgery followed by recovery. She has been promised lots of facial bruising.

Hopefully we will get some news about lunchtime.

But it is brain surgery ( Read more... )

Dawn seemed quite happy when I saw her this afternoon. However, this evening she called to say that they were moving her to Southampton Hospital tonight. They have more specialised scanners there and hope to get another scan in the morning before the consultants from all the local hospitals have their weekly meeting. They will then decide if they ( Read more... )

Looks like we wont hear any more on the scan results until Tuesday.  Meanwhile Dawn had arranged with one of the doctors to come home for a few hours, so I picked her up just before lunchtime ( Read more... )

We were hoping that Dawn would be coming home yesterday.  She would have to have a scan, but they doubted that they could fit that in as A&E have priority and she would probably come back as an outpatient ( Read more... )

Dawn was much better and eating when we went in.  Still no sign of when she an come home ( Read more... )