A long, long night....Friday continued..

Docs do what they can, an we arrange a room in Chevallier ward. Sheila looking very worn out now, hopefully bloods will boost her. 1st bag down. Docs reckon kidney failing because her bladder is blocked, and decide to insert a catheter, to help, with partial success. Docs liaise with St Helier (local hospital with renal & kidney specialist). They will try and get her in tonight, but beds are at a premium. Very heavy conversation about kidney ops ensues, especially the dangers in Sheilas condition :(
After 20:00 we transfer to Chevallier ward, have our own private room, en suite, flat screen TV (Corrie & Eastenders on). I nip down to VW and bring back a bottle of Port, Sheila well happy. But towards end of night, she gets very very drowsy. Starts having waking dreams. Nurses try to flush catheter/bladder out, but without much success. At around 03:00 saturday, duty doctor gets summoned to check catheter . She is not too happy and decides to remove and insert new one. This is a success, and without going into too much gory detail, lots of stuff comes out. To my surprise, Sheila sleeps through whole episode!!! This aint normal. But doc says at least she didnt feel any discomfort. After short while nurse comes in for obs, sheila 'sleeps' through this aswell. By this time i voice my concerns to nurses. We try and wake her up, no luck. Shouting, rubbing, shaking, she doesnt come round. Night doctor gets called, lots of discussions, possible stroke, senior doc gets paged, on way in. We try all sorts to wake her, reflex is poor, pupils not dilating. We fear the worst. Senior docs fears worst too. Head scan discussed, possible DVT problem. Trial co-ordinator is informed. By this time I am bricking it. Its 05:00 ish, she is still not responding. I call her brother, leave messages. this is serious. Things looking very dire. Then docs decide to try one last thing, an injection to counter the morphine based pain killers that are in her system. Injection goes in, after 10 secs she awakens with 8 very worried people standing over her, and she says "whats up with you lot, what you staring at". panic over. AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH.....

Nurse offers to ring David (sheilas bro) to put him in the picture. (I go off to change my pants :/ I'll kill her if she does that to me again :)

Find out later that because her kidney/s arent on full flow, the drugs just circulate round body and she basically O/D'd. David calls in, on his way to visit, with mum & dad. Good.

St Helier hospital confirm bed. Transport to be arranged. Sheila nicely relaxed, but seems to be getting confused on whats happening around her. Nurse says side affect of kidney problems dont worry. Wait for transport