What a lovely evening it was today! Though it was quite windy earlier, by evening it was calm and warm.

The outside cats were in their glory!

I went outside to get something and ended up just sitting in the evening sun, getting entertained by cats.

Doom Guy was all over me, when he wasn’t rolling around on the steps or the ground.

Bob wouldn’t let me pick him up, but he sure wanted pets!

And my feet.

Big Jim wouldn’t let me near him, but he sure loved rolling around in my vicinity!

Beep Beep went from rolling around to demanding attention – wanting up, but not wanting to be picked up (I bent over to pet her and Doom Guy once, and the next thing I knew, she was on my back – with me stuck bent over!).

We were rolling with things today, too.

I finally got information!

While visiting my husband at the hospital, and him still not knowing what was going on tomorrow, I went to the nurses station and asked if there was someone I could talk to. I ended up being directed to our favourite nurse – she was one of the people treating my husband in emergency, and was just awesome. She was the one who was right at home with our gallows humour!!

I asked her about the two procedures he was supposed to be getting; the one set for tomorrow (paracentesis is the proper name for it; we’re calling it a keg tap), and the angiogram. She was able to tell me more about the paracentesis, which as where it’s being done (we didn’t even know what city – the smaller, closer one, or the larger, further one – he was being sent to), and how he’s getting there, but she didn’t have the time, so she went to look it up and rejoined us in my husband’s room.

So we now know he’s being sent to the larger city for the procedure in the early afternoon. They’re sending an ambulance with higher weight bearing equipment from the city to transport him. I can’t accompany him, but a health care worker will be with him. I could follow in the van if I wanted to, though, and be at the hospital, of course.

As for the angiogram…

There isn’t one.

Who told us he was getting an angiogram? she asks.

It’s what we were being told from the beginning! Even just a few days ago, I talked to the on-call doctor, asking about the two procedures, and he said they were both happening this week – but when he finally talked directly to my husband about it, he only talked about the tap.

It turns out my husband doesn’t need an angiogram. They’re setting him up to go to the cardio clinic in the city, but it’s not for any procedure. It’s just to see the cardiologist.

Which is great news, but why didn’t anyone say anything before?

Here we were wondering why they were more concerned about keeping him until he gets the tap done, but not about the angiogram.

My husband’s regular doctor is still away – I thought he’d be back this week, but it sounds like he’s gone for another week. A different doctor is on call, but my husband hadn’t seen him at all.

Anyhow.

The nurse explained that while they are preparing to be able to discharge him after the procedure, they are playing it by ear for now. Whether or not he gets discharged with be decided based on how things go in the city.

After talking about it, it was decided it would not make sense for me to follow along for the procedure. The hospital he’s going to will be even more difficult to find parking for than the last one he was sent to (both hospitals are also research centres), and just as much of a maze.

Which turned out to be a good decision.

Not long after I got home, I got a phone call. The new, higher weight bearing hospital bed is going to be delivered, late tomorrow morning.

I had thought my husband would need a bariatric bed, simply because I thought there were only 2 options. It turns out that there is an in-between category. With all the fluids they’ve got out of him while in the hospital, technically he doesn’t qualify for this higher weight bearing bed anymore, but his current condition – plus the fact that the very old hospital bed he’s got now is breaking – was taken into account when he was assessed and approved for the new bed.

I’m just happy it’ll be here for when he comes home. :-)

So the next few days are going to be busy. Not only do we have all this going on, but we are preparing for Easter, too. The marinated goat cheese we made extra of has been very successful, and I hope to process the pictures and have the final recipe up, soon. We will also be starting some pink pickled eggs soon (those only need a few days to process), and buy the last few items. There is horseradish root to dig up (now that I know where it’s growing), with some to deliver to my mother, bread to bake, and more.

It will be so exciting if we can celebrate Easter at home with my husband!!!

The Re-Farmer