Adrenalin rush
Things we learned yesterday:
1. The adrenal gland is really important. The 'nerve centre' of the body. Linked to the main aorta, the kidney, liver and diaphram - and welded to the main vein.
2. The body tucks away really important organs / glands behind ribs etc. So it's hard to get to.
3. It's makes cortisol (steroids - essential to life), adrenalin (essential to life, says Quent), mineralocorticoids (great word for Scrabble) and a little bit of testosterone (yes, another of life's essentials!)
4. They won't take out part of it - so Quent will be on replacement therapy for the rest of his life.
5. The operation will be done keyhole by a pretty, young, blond surgeon called Miss Warburton.
6. There's a really lovely parade of shops near Withington Hospital, but the operation will be done at Wythenshawe, which apparently has no nice shops nearbly.
7. If there are complications, the operation will be done as open surgery and the scar will be twice as big as the one made to remove Quent's left kidney (which is pretty huge!)
8. Quent will be in hospital around a week.
9. Many of our questions will be answered by the endocrinologist (another good Scrabble word), rather than the surgeon. So don't ask anything about what tablets Quent will be on, because we on't know yet.
As someone said recently, the idea of Quent without adrenalin is tricky to get your head around...
1. The adrenal gland is really important. The 'nerve centre' of the body. Linked to the main aorta, the kidney, liver and diaphram - and welded to the main vein.
2. The body tucks away really important organs / glands behind ribs etc. So it's hard to get to.
3. It's makes cortisol (steroids - essential to life), adrenalin (essential to life, says Quent), mineralocorticoids (great word for Scrabble) and a little bit of testosterone (yes, another of life's essentials!)
4. They won't take out part of it - so Quent will be on replacement therapy for the rest of his life.
5. The operation will be done keyhole by a pretty, young, blond surgeon called Miss Warburton.
6. There's a really lovely parade of shops near Withington Hospital, but the operation will be done at Wythenshawe, which apparently has no nice shops nearbly.
7. If there are complications, the operation will be done as open surgery and the scar will be twice as big as the one made to remove Quent's left kidney (which is pretty huge!)
8. Quent will be in hospital around a week.
9. Many of our questions will be answered by the endocrinologist (another good Scrabble word), rather than the surgeon. So don't ask anything about what tablets Quent will be on, because we on't know yet.
As someone said recently, the idea of Quent without adrenalin is tricky to get your head around...
posted by Helen at 4/23/2014 07:44:00 pm
1 Comments:
Who'd have thought the adrenal gland did all that. Sounds like whilst you're there you ought to look for the local scrabble club so you could trounce them with those long words.
Glad you know more now than on the 14th but sorry that it isn't simpler to deal with. Lots of love. Jen H x
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