Slow and sometimes not so sure ...

Dougie has had a really mixed couple of days.
Yesterday was really quite good and he was responsive and active although still a bit chesty.
However to-day he was very down. We eventually discovered that he had had a couple of ultrasonic scans (echo??) of the heart done, one of which (yesterday) didn't work because they had removed the venflon in his left foot and couldn't get sufficient resolution without the dye present.
A venflon had been placed in his left hand to-day and the echo scan repeated.
The reason for the two scans in rapid succession was due to the first one not having worked.
Regrettably the staff had not thought it worth while mentioning this to Douglas and he had spent the whole day worrying himself sick with the fear that he had a critical heart problem particularly since he'd had a pain in his chest on Monday.

We managed to re-assure him I think (hope) before we left this evening that if anything was wrong, he'd be told.
Poor Clare walked into all this on her visit .......... however she did manage to lighten his mood quite a bit by bringing in several DVDs for him to watch.
I hope he has a better night and we'll see what to-morrow brings.

Iain