15th June: a draining time...

Felt very down today. I have had a lot of pain from the drain site in my rib and am feeling ‘abandoned’ by the hospital. They send me off for eight weeks without even a number to call when things go wrong. The nurses and the GP tell me that the drain is so specialised they don’t know what to do. I am expected to go to Southampton for a clinic appointment, and then the following week for a scan. No one thinks of coordinating it into one visit. The whole set up makes me angry.
When I was first told of the diagnosis of cancer I prepared myself for chemo, but I had no concept of how this liver operation would put me out of action for so many long and tedious weeks. It is so difficult to stay strong through it all.