This afternoon has been tiring. It was lovely to see Mum and Sue, and of course Ruth, who gave me a bed bath and changed my gown. The HCAs also changed my sheet. All the moving around clearly took its toll though, and by the time Ruth left about 7.40 I was completely knackered. I asked for some pain relief but it happened to be just when they were doing shift handover and I didn’t get anything for over an hour.
The location of the dressing clearly explains why I’ve been getting so much pain from the base of my skull when I’ve tried to move support from my neck. The wound seems to go right up to the base of the skull.
I’m now losing some of the sensitivity around the device and have able to lie on my left side a bit more comfortably today, but only for short periods.
