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Nice chat with Bones this eve, good news and not so good...
Great to hear him a heck of a lot more cheerful than he was on tuesday, on the phone he's sounding like normal. Well, normal for him anyway! cheerful, making jokes, taking the mick and it's hard to get a word in. So moral is much improved, and Vicki is there to give him a hard time.
Not so good news is his physical condition;
The last chest drain turned out to have been put in wrong. In the wrong place and inserted too far thus causing a bit more damage to his lung. This has meant the wound hasn't been draining properly and has become infected. More of a concern though is he's had some germ swabs taken and it turns out he's carrying MRSA!!!
Now that alone is nothing unusual, statistically about 1 in 3 of us carry MRSA with us all the time, and a healthy person can fight off the bug with no problem. The trouble starts when it finds its way into a wound of someone who's not well and their system is lacking strength to defend itself. Obviously Paul has wounds and is not full of strength at the moment, so it's being monitored very close.
As well as all this he seems to have a touch of pneumonia!
He'll not be moving to Liverpool any time soon because of the mrsa thing, but wil be moving to another ward at Bangor in the next day or two.
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