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Hi everyone - weekend here at last. Had a bit of a set back with dad yesterday, early hours of the morning he was experiencing a lot of pain in his stomach when he breathed in.

We left it for about an hour and then decided it was best to ring the out of hours number at his doctor’s surgery. The telephonist advised us a doctor would ring us back shortly about half an hour later he rang, spoke to dad asked a few questions, assured him that he did not think it was an emergency and probably only gas. He told dad to take some painkillers and only drink clear fluids and ring his doctor later and ask him to come and check him out. Dad said he did not really want to wait that long and ask if the emergency doctor could visit him. He said OK but there were 3 other calls so he would be a while, if he thought things were getting worse call the emergency services.

Dad decided to wait and the doctor duly arrive about an hour later and confirmed that in his opinion it was only gas and all dad’s obs were good and normal. He suggested a light diet probably just water, cordial and yogurt. In the end dad did have a light meal of poached fish but stuck to water and cordial for drink.

Hopefully over the weekend the gas will go, this is a problem with people with a stoma and you have to watch that you do not consume too much food that creates gas.

I will get him some cranberry juice later today which is something recommended by the doctors for someone with a stoma.