A few days later my friend received a phone call with an appointment for an Endoscopy for 9.30am Monday 28th May. This unfortunately was to be carried out on a hospital in the next county. So transport was arranged through the NHS ambulance service.
My friend was very brave and refused any sedative for this procedure, because she didn't want to spend any longer in the hospital than she needed to. Having a sedative would have meant her having to wait a couple of hours. I know I certainly couldn't have swallowed a large black tube with a camera on the end, without some sort of help.
She arrived back home just before lunch time. All we had to do now was wait for the result. The following day we received a phone call from the hospital in the next county talking about operations and all sorts. Very frightening and not quite right.
A few hours later my friend received another phone call from the local hospital 26 miles away to say she had been slotted in on Thursday 31st May at 10.10 am with the consultant surgeon. Now she would really find out what was going to happen.
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