Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Rebuilding the Man: Day Five.

Today brought some exciting news. Ben could be out of hospital as early as tomorrow morning if all goes to plan.

Today he successfully completed a number of tests designed to gauge his ability to cope at home without the help of the hospital staff. One of the tests required him to walk up a number of stairs using his crutches. The other was to simulate getting in/out of a car. Apparently he passed with flying colours, after all I hear he is pretty handy on the crutches but still has trouble getting back into bed!

With so much good news we were bound for a setback sooner or later. Yesterday the doctors noticed an abnormality in his kidney function. There is a possibility its nothing or it may be a sign that there is an infection, which could be quite serious. They've done some further tests and we were expecting to know either sometime this afternoon or tomorrow morning.

Fingers crossed it’s all clear!

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