Monday 15th September

Our son has just phoned us. Having spent all day in the hospital in Torquay, he has just got back to the farm. He has a 3cm cyst in his left testicle which was observed under an ultrasound scan. We had a staff nurse ring at 5pm, to say that he was going to be staying in overnight, and could he be given an anticoagulant injection to prevent DVT, as he would be inactive for a long time. Half an hour later the carer that was with him rang to say he wouldn’t be staying, and they were waiting for the paperwork so that he could be discharged ~ three hours later, and he arrives at the farm, starving, tired, but sounding ok. He has had two lots of morphine, painkillers and paracetamol. He really must have been in pain.

He is now awaiting an appointment with a urologist later this week.

I think he was pretty scared.