ITU experience part 2.

The only sort of hesitation on that first night or early the next morning is that because of the epidural and the fact that I was pretty immobile, I started to lose the sensation in one of the legs and I was very clear in my own mind before anybody told me that this probably because of the position of the epidural. And so they switched off the feed for the drugs at the time, because that was the first kind of immediate action to follow following that condition. And then I started to get a bit anxious that the pain was going to come on and sure enough it did, but they had sorted it out before the pain became unbearable, but it took, I don't know whether this is true or not, but it felt like it took a little bit longer for the pain relief to be restored to the levels that I'd had before, and there was a bit of indecision around the amount of pain relief I was getting through the epidural should get through the epidural because of this. But anyway, the feeling returned to my legs and that, you know, was fine. I was never nervous about that, but so that was kind of the first night. I was then in ITU for another three nights, I think, which was slightly longer than I'd expected, but the next, the day after the surgery, the physios came in and the surgeon had always said, look I'd like you to, you in fact I remember him saying this to me on the first Zoom call back in June when I was in Nairobi and he was in London he said you know you'll be you'll be walking around the next day you'll be up and out of bed the next day and when the physios came to you know encouraging me to do that very very carefully when I sat up actually I my blood pressure kind of plummeted when I was sitting upright so they abandoned the attempt to get me walking that next day and I think the reason for that had been that you know the anti-clotting agents that I'd been given had probably thinned the blood too much so that my blood pressure was going to be low if I was if I was sitting upright. But as I say I mean overall the care that I was given was incredible. I was really impressed and the professionalism of the ITU teams as well was amazing.