Tuesday 5 January 2010

Round two

Ellen is back in hospital for the second round of her immunotherapy which has already been somewhat eventful. She had a blood and platelet transfusion and a new Hickman line put in on Monday morning. Her immunotherapy was then started on the regular ward and everything was going impressively smoothly until she decided to almost stop breathing. A very scary experience as at that moment, there were no doctors or nurses in sight. Thankfully a passing Consultant was virtually rugby tackled to assist and Ellen was sorted out pretty quickly. It seems that this was caused by the combination of a swollen throat from her anaesthetic, an allergic reaction to the immunotherapy and excess fluid on her lungs. We were rapidly moved to ITU and are continuing the remainder of this course here. Ellen has been reasonably well with today's infusion and we hope the rest of the week will be a little less eventful.

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