the angiography was done in thursday. the doctor considered it to be a successful one as they managed to find another bleeding spot and clipped it. to-date, no symptoms of renal failure (30% risk for angiography). though everythings seems to be running fine, the doctor said the angiography was the last thing they did on him. subsequently, they'll just focus on "keeping him comfortable". if he bleeds again, give him transfusion; if he bleeds massively, do nothing.
my dad continued to stay in the ICU for a few more days, the doctors wanted to monitor closely if the blood pressure or bloodcount falls again.
most of the time, he's "asleep". frankly speaking, it's quite difficult to tell whether he is unconscious, sleeping, or awake with eyes closed. sometimes when we called him loud enough, he'll open or tried to open his eye lids for 1 sec, before the eye ball turn to focus on you, his eye lids closed again. sometimes when we tried to hard to wake him up, his breathe will shorten and his heart rate will shoot up.
i was very happy when i was able to catch his attention. we gone through all these just to buy more time with him and we succeeded. other than our decisions, the biggest factor is of course our dad, our HERO who fought his way through.
the next 3 days were rather peaceful. blood count stable, blood pressure maintained. sunday afternoon, they transferred my dad to general ward because they felt that he has stablised, no point monitoring him real time.
despite the stable conditions and "improvement", i dun feel good. i suddenly recalled what the ICU doctor told us initially. ICU is not a good place to say goodbye, if possible, we will send him to the general ward. i can't help thinking that if something happened to my dad again, they r not going to save him. yes, he may seems alright now, but just another incident will take him away.
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