An unjust turn of events..

Bugger, I knew i should have written all the good stuff when it was all going so smoothly and Doug was progressing so well - now we've had an about turn this weekend so all last week is a hazy memory - thankfully, my secretary posted pictures of the wonderful hot day out we had 'dancing through the tulips' in Skagit valley after Doug had a busy week of learning to speed type in occupational therapy; tottering backwards on a beam whilst counting 7 backwards and waltzing his eyes in all directions during physio and back sorting those pesky shapes and colours in speech therapy.
All these amazing new skills have been put to rest for a while sadly as Doug was readmitted into hospital on friday evening with chest pain. We did manage to cause a bit of a rumpus in our sleepy neighbourhood with sirens and flashing lights alerting the neighbours to our drama but i hadn't quite calculated on a fire engine attempting to squeeze its huge body down our tight, dead end drive and 5 burly officers bursting out...so apparently (note to self), when one calls for medical assistance...you get the fire fighters...no complaints however...
Unfortunately, the worse scenerio occurred and he has developed 2 pulmonary embolisms. We knew this was always the danger coming off Warfarin but the suddenness and ferocity took us by surprise - so fucking unfair! Pain relief was slow coming but finally by saturday morning Doug was lost in cuckoo land and today Doug came through the whole bamboozle and barrage of tests looking good (the new tan helps) and handling his readmission pretty well..they started a heparin drip and no sign of it aggravating a bleed - thank goodness.
A setback...but hopefully not for long...

PS he's in room 6260 at U of W... but not for too much longer i hope...