A Long Day

Today was a LONG day. I didn't have to meet up at gyn ward til 10am, so went up to have a quick visit with Hannah first. She was happy & had her eyes open, I think she even gave me a smile. Then I went up to the gyn ward where I had to wait until 1pm before going into theatre (I had been fasting since 11pm the previous night & hadn't had anything to drink since 8am). The procedure it's self didn't take that long & I was discharged by 1630. 

As we didn't know when I'd be out, nothing had been arranged for dinner, so we decided to have it up at the hospital canteen. While we were on way up to ward after dinner we got a phonecall that Hannah wasn't doing well. We didn't get too worried as she often went up & down, but that changed when we walked into the room & saw the faces of the drs. We were told her BP & HR had dropped suddenly & was not responding to treatment. They said she had been given the maximum amount of adrenaline that they could give & she only had minutes to live. We began to fervently pray to God that he would intervene. Suddenly without explaination her heart rate stopped falling & started picking up again & her BP started coming up again. The drs were speechless. 

Having had that scare though we were unwilling to leave her & so spent the night up at the hospital with her. Tom had rung his parents & they had driven up straight away. We had called my parents to also come up with Joshua when told she didn't have long. The nurses were wonderful. They organised for a couple of beds to be brought up & put in the empty room next door to Hannah's & we had a couple of recliner chairs in her room as well. They organised for jugs of coffee, tea & juice to have in the room. They did all they could to accomodate us & make us as comfortable as possible. Hannah stayed stabile, though on a HUGE dose of cardiac meds, the whole night.