What we call an 'echo' translates to ultrasonography (thanks to wikipedia). Kees had one done this morning in the hospital and nothing shows anything like DVT. So we can strike of that possibility from the list, with lots of thanks to the docs who tried to panick us yesterday and made us spend a lot of time in ER which we would love to have spend elsewhere.

Question remains: what is wrong? Monday back to the orthopedic clinic.

Kees had pain in his right thigh, originating from his knee (or so he thought) since mid-december. At first we thought it was his knee, but then the doc and the physio therapist decided it may be a ligament in his thigh and because it lasted and lasted he was sent to a orthopedic specialist. The first MRI-scan didn't catch the sore spot - it only got the knee and 3 inches above, where as the pain is mainly 5 inches above the knee. So this afternoon we had to go to an MRI-centre, where in a bigger machine they could scan his whole thigh.

It turns out to be thrombosis in a deep vein. So on our way back from Amsterdam we got a phone call from the specialist that we had to drive straight to the ER center in the hospital in Delft (in rush hour of course). Between long waits they managed to take his blood pressure (normal), his temp (normal) and they asked a lot of questions, where it seemed like they were the most surprised about the fact that this has been going on for about three months.

I had to give him an injection with blood thinners, and we have to give those for the coming few days, plus pills we will get from the pharmacy tomorrow, until it can be regulated by pills alone. And they want him back tomorrow morning for an echo, because an MRI is a very strange scan to show thrombosis :)

Every time something new, but seldom something good!

Coming home by plane yesterday. Urged the men to both be there this time, because the last time I flew in only Kees was there. HMM was still putting away the car, because I was early and they were late (yes I know who had said there was plenty of time, but I'm not telling on them).

This time only HMM was there, but there was a text message from Kees the moment I put my cell phone on, saying that he wouldn't be there because he was in bed with a fever. HMM had insisted on calling the night doctor on monday even, because he was running a temp up to 103 and for Kees that is very high. They couldn't decide whether it was erysipelas again. He has had problems with his knee and upper leg which seems to be a bursitis or a tendonitis. But yesterday his nose developed into something a longterm spirit drinker would be very proud of, with a huge red spot going on to his right cheek. So now we knew for certain that is was erysipelas again (the first time he had it, was on his forehead).

You simply can't leave them alone can you?