With friends like Rod who needs enemas

It's been a long day today. Vic has spent most of the day asleep. The day started very early as Vic was in a great deal of discomfort. After mum had woken him up to change his syringe driver at 2.30 am it appeared his catheter had blocked. We tried to sort it out but at 6.00 am it seemed we had to call the on call Dr. Unfortunately the Dr decided replacing a catheter was not a job for her and we should take him to A & E! To cut a long story short a district nurse finally came out to see him at 10.00 am and helped him out. It's very distressing to watch someone unable to have a wee! They get more and more restless and full up. Unfortunately mum had to give him a lot of extra pain relief which is why he spent most of the day asleep.

Thank God Auntie Claire came back to help us today which fills the gap of Rod and Moe leaving us today. Poor Rod had to leave his poorly little brother not knowing if he was feeling more comfortable or not. Fortunately he was able to call from the airport and find out he was much more comfy.

The title of the blog was thought up by Rod and I. During his stay Rod has had moments of absent mindedness like putting his chair leg on Vic's oxygen tube, putting his knee against the electric control for Vic's bed making him sit up or lay down involuntarily or helping Vic with his dinner by loading the fork up with chokingly large amounts to which my mother said "with friends like you who needs enemies" which hastily got changed to the title above as obviously Vic has had a little help in that department lately at times with regular hilarity all round (including from Vic).

Sadly though the day has been exhausting for Vic. He's been very sad today for various reasons and as I write he is fidgeting to get comfortable and his bottom is numb. Once we find the right position he can usually go off to sleep but tonight he can't.......

.......The blog had to be left last night as Vic was so restless it took all three of us to get him finally comfortable. He had another dreadful night and woke us twice in pain. Mum zonked him out at 4.50 am and he got off to sleep until we got up at 8.00am. Therefore today his syringe drivers were increased with more pain relief. Which means he sleeps more with the increased sedation and because he is more comfortable feels more sleepy too. Pain is very tiring.

At present he is laying very still with his oxygen in place peacefully sleeping, full of a nice dinner and a piece of Heidi's treacle tart. Such a shame we have to move him in a few minutes to give his his last lot of pain killers and turn him over. Having said that he's just woken up on one of his la la land trips and asked about the large picture of a blonde actress called Barbara (or even Marilyn Monroe we later realise) that we had hung in front of him over his bed (no wonder they use one of the drugs Vic is on ((Midazolam)) to remove wisdom teeth under sedation). God bless him.

I hope this isn't too boring reading, the days aren't terribly exciting, very full, but not exciting. Thank goodness we have lots of visitors to interject a bit of distraction.

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