Brief time in a hospital bed

After a night of limited sleep and some pain at work yesterday morning, I decided to call the beautiful Oncology Nurse to inform her on some of the changes to my situation. She immediately called the scan room to book a scan for me and to set me up a bed in the Lancaster Ward.

Since I was at work, I called Tulagi who took me to the hospital. When I got to the Ward I was sent straight away for my scan. I smiled sitting in the scan room waiting for my number to be called. All the other women were pregnant and healthy, perhaps waiting news on how their baby was faring. I on the other hand had no baby, just a stomach distended enough to look like I had a baby.

When it was my turn to be scanned, the technician was told that they needed to mark the position for tapping. After a few seconds on the bed, the technician asked in some frustration, "where can we mark? it will be dangerous at the moment the fluids are covering her vital organs and their is a strong chance the doctors may puncture one of those organs". She then recommended that I return with a doctor.

Tulagi and I returned to the ward and since Staff Nurse Marica was not around, I got into bed (in my working clothes)! We sat there for a while and I began to feel hungry. I hadn't had breakfast and asked Tulagi to go off and fetch me something to eat.

While he was away Staff Nurse Ma returned and I gave her the information from the scan room. This was when she advised me to wait a little longer and not to drain the fluids just yet as in her opinion, once it is done, the fluids would fill up fast and would need regular draining. I felt it was good advice and decided to return home after that.

Before leaving hospital I commented that the ambiance of the ward was different and that was when I was shown around the ward. There were new curtains, beautiful flower arrangements and pot plants in Chinese clay pots. I did not have my camera with me to share  the new look Lancaster Ward. I was informed that the PM's wife, Mrs Bainimara and the army wives had the Lancaster Ward as a project and would be providing these fresh arrangements for the ward right up to the end of the year. That is worth a big vinaka vakalevu for the generosity and is indeed a wonderful way to touch lives positively.