Cordelia is up and buttercup is out!

All day I have had that niggle in my mind that I have forgotten to check something. Maybe for you it has been the inability to focus, perhaps feeling like you need to take really deep breaths (all the time), or constantly check your phone for the update of all updates.

Cords is up and buttercup is pretty much all out!

Post-surgery update part 1

• Cordelia knows her name
• She can move her limbs
• She is complaining of a headache (no shit Sherlock)

And breathe. WHOOP! Shake that shaker!

Getting the whole surgical team to dance with her into theatre. I wish all my patients were like Cordelia. I’m more likely to get kicked or bitten!

Post surgery update part 2

• Surgery lasted almost 10 hours
• The team removed nearly all of buttercup (90% ++)
• Cords is heavily sedated and on the good stuff. She is asking for Bernard…. (my granddad is called Bernard but I am not sure that is who she is looking for)

The night before surgery Cordelia came around to mine to show me how to post an update and she asked if I needed anything from the shops to which I said a £1 surprise please. Then I found out she was in Waitrose, so I upped it to a fiver. Annoyingly, the first thing she pulled out from the bag was a gluten-free dog treat for Luna the whippet (that was at least a third of MY surprise budget gone) but then that is Cords- thinking about everyone, even the skinny 4 legged ones.

When she asked me to take over the airwaves whilst recovering from surgery, I was at first very touched but reminded her that my English was shit. To which she replied

“It would be good to have someone, you know with medical knowledge- you’re a vet!”

I love that she thinks that sorting donkeys hooves out in Senegal equates to me knowing anything about brain surgery. But hey, I suppose last time she was in hospital I made sure her drips were changed AND her nickname Coco has glossy labradoodle written all over it.

On the lines of medicalness I was half expecting to get an update from her in the form of a photo that would have to come with a warning sign- the inside of her head. Yep, you have guessed it Cords has asked her surgeon to take a photo of her tumour in situ. I’ll leave that for her to post!

So, what can we expect in the next 24 hours?

• She will remain in ICU tonight (intensive care unit) and hopefully onto the wards tomorrow
• A more detailed surgical update and post-op plan by the end of the week

Keeping calm with her crystal post surgery

Just in case anyone was wondering she wasn’t allowed to wear her gifted nipple tassels into surgery in case they fudged up the MRI scanners. Which made Danny and I laugh, and on top of this we cannot figure out why the top piece of advice given to her for having brain surgery was to get a Brazilian…

Anyway, now that niggle in our minds has gone and so has hers, the only way as you all know is up!

With love

Ebony and Danny (from a dirty burger joint near the hospital)

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