Well things had been slowly progressing since the second biliary drainage tube was put in for Shaun and a lot more ‘yellow’ has drained out and his urine is turning lighter also. However recently he has had some breathing issues and so further scans were booked for today to ascertain whether he is suffering from a blood clot or not. This will be determined hopefully in the next day or so.
It seems it never rains but it pours at times and every time the doctors come into the room I brace myself for more bad news. Admittedly some of the time they have good news – on the rare occasion – like the dropping bilirubin levels and so forth they told us of today (80 now….was up past 100 but levels need to drop below 50 to be considered ‘normal’)
The second drainage tube is working well and Shaun looks a lot less yellow currently however. Joan and Anne and Ella visited yesterday (finally) but stayed only for some hours and then went home again. They brought a cat up by mistake who had hidden in the workings of Anne’s car and travelled all the way up!
Also another good sign is Shaun is no longer on IV for any drugs but simply takes them by pill form now….this will be good for when he comes home and he can take his pills via drug form at the stipulated hours
I queried doctors as to why he hadn’t been offered a liver transplant but apparently if you have cancer of the type Shaun has, then a liver transplant isn’t possible….its due to the type of bile duct cancer he has and whether cancer may be anywhere else in the body or something like that and the body needing to accept the new liver and the body’s immune responses ….basically the ‘reasons’ they gave me are all over my head – but they are basically saying no – a liver transplant isn’t possible. I wanted to argue the fact but felt my knowledge wasn’t up the same standards theirs was.
There has been many and varied visitors ranging from Len and Pam and Lisa, Craig, Tim and Guy Mordaunt, Paul Roache, Gary Nesdale, Cheryl Scott, Toastmaster people, Michelle, Lynda, Avram, Rob Nankervis, Jenness Clarke to name a few. Scientology people like Matt Fraser come up on Friday…Len and Pam will return end of December etc
Shaun is selling his real estate business to Avram Deitch and is going to show me how to be ‘financially’ savvy when he is home again as my knowledge of everything financial is so bad that I need further instruction on this going forward.
Jesse will move out of the sleepout into the house, Shaun and I will get the pool table dismantled and turn the pool table room into a lounge, pop in a couch etc
I had a visit from Simon Halford who dropped off some cherries from his orchard for Shaun and also I’ve been supplying Shaun with a lot of berries (berries are v good for you and its summertime so there are plenty around)
Also Property Brokers dropped off some ready meals from Angel Food Co which was nice and Shaun has had back and forth communication with Iain Taylor and Tony Cochrane re accounts, updating his will, selling his business, getting his income protection insurance and so on and so forth. He has been a busy boy.
Tim Scott who has been a client of Shaun’s in the past dropped off a box of sparkling water which was nice today
Various properties have sold recently which has given him a boost in his bank account which will help when he is no longer doing real estate anymore. I worry about money consistently though Shaun tries to assure me it will be OK
I will continue to help out Avram with databasing stuff and Lynda and Michelle will be kept in with jobs too because they will work for Avram instead of Shaun going forward.
So that is the latest….will be back with another update and hopefully good news (of some kind at least)
Christmas is just around the corner and I am ill prepared so that will be my focus soon….not that Christmas will be much of a Christmas this year, it will be very small scale only.
