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Progress!

Hi guys! Sorry I haven't been updating as regularly as usual! I'm stuck with the iPad while I'm in hospital and it's not so easy to post on here! I'm almost ready to come home and my discharge is arranged for Thursday (12th). I had three training sessions for self administration of the TPN. One for connecting, one for disconnecting and one for dressing changes. It was all pretty straight forward because I have my nurse training to fall back on, so after showing him that I could do it safely we sat and chatted about festivals and camper vans lol. I have been setting everything up myself since week one so there are no really concerns about that! I had my NJ tube replaced on the Monday, following my last post but it did not go very well. I spoke to the clinician who was placing it prior to them starting and explained that I was more than used to the procedure after having several already. I also told him that 4mg of medazolam is what they usually use and that wor