Nôl yn Aber / BACK IN ABER

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Adre’n ddiogel

Rydym ni’n dau yn ôl yn Aber. Wedi siwrne cyffroes i ddweud y lleiaf, a barodd 28 awr, cyrrhaeddom Ysbyty Bronglais mewn Ambiwlans ar nos Wener am ddeg y nos. Mi’r oedd y siwrne yn brofiad a rhaid oedd i Nia druan drafaelu yr holl ffordd yn fflat ar ei chefn. Collais cownt o sawl ‘stretcher’ yr oedd rhaid iddi drafaelu arno gan iddi orfod newid o un i’r llall ar bob cam o’r daith. Oherwydd tywydd gwael mewn rhannau o Preu, nid oedd yr awyren ambiwlans yn medru ein cyrraedd yn Arequipa a rhaid oedd i ni drafaelu mewn awyren fach 9 sedd gyda Nia mewn ‘body brace’ ar ‘stretcher’ ar ben rhes o seddi wedi eu plygu ymlaen. Nid oedd y siwrne dwy awr yma yn un gyfforddus. Wedyn cawsom siwrne o dros 12 awr o Lima i Amsterdam a ninnau’n hedfan o gwmpas y stormydd mwyaf dwi erioed wedi eu brofi mewn awyren. Roedd ein taith awyr olaf o Amsterdam i Heathrow yn dipyn yn dawelach ond roedd taith o 5 awr yn ein disgwyl i’n tywys o’r maes awyr i’r ysbyty ym Mronglais. Ni wnaeth Nia fwynhau dim o’r daith adref ond dwi’n falch i adrodd erbyn bore Sadwrn roedd ysbryd Nia nôl ar ei uchel.

Rydym nôl yn Aber oherwydd mae’r driniaeth mae doctoriaid y wlad yma yn ei rhoi i berson yng nghyflwr Nia yn dra wahanol i’r driniaeth sy’n cael ei ddarparu ym Mheru. Yma, dim ond 10% o achosion tebyg sy’n gorffen lan yn derbyn llawdriniaeth. Hefyd, cafodd y sefyllfa ei chymhlethu’n bellach gyda’r doctoriaid a wnaeth ein hebrwng adref yn mynnu cymryd gofal o’r ‘MRI scans’ ac yna yn eu gadael ar un o’r awyrennau adref. Felly, ni chyrrhaeddodd y ‘scans’ Bronglais tan bore ddoe. Gorffwys a ffisiotherapi yw gorchymyn y doctor a gobeithiwn bydd Neurosurgeon yn gweld Nia’n fuan.

Diolch yn fawr i bawb a wnaeth helpu dod a Nia adref yn ddiogel. I bawb arall, fe synnech chi faint o fobl roedd ei hangen i gwbwlhau’r dasg a hefyd y nifer o seddi mewn awyren mae’n gymryd. Rhybudd i chi gyd – pan yn trafaelu dramor, peidiwch da ddim ac anghofio’r polisi yswiriant!

Bydd rhagor o newydd yn dilyn.

Home Safely

We are both back in Aber. After a long and gruelling journey that lasted 28 hours, we arrived in Bronglais Hospital in the back of an ambulance at about 10pm on Friday evening. The journey was an experience and an eye opener with poor Nia flat on her back all the way. I lost count of how many times Nia had to change stretchers at different stages of the journey. Due to bad weather in parts of Peru the air ambulance that was meant to fly us from Arequipa to Lima could not reach us and we had to fly instead in a small nine seater plane with Nia in a body brace on a stretcher lying on top of the passenger seats that were resting forward. This two hour journey was not a pleasant one to say the least. The next stage of the journey, a 12 hour flight from Lima to Amsterdam was not much better. In my experience, I have never encountered so much turbulence as the pilot tried to steer us round numerous storms. The ride was so bumpy that I’m sure at one stage that Nia’s whole body actually left the stretcher she was meant to be strapped into. Thankfully, the flight from Amsterdam to Heathrow was far less eventful but we still had a 5 hour journey from the airport to Bronglais Hospital in an ambulance. Nia certainly did not enjoy the journey home but I’m pleased to report that her spirit was much better by Saturday morning.

We have made it back to Aberystwyth as the treatment offered by doctors in this country is totally different to what we were offered in Peru. Here, only about 10% of cases where an individual has suffered a slipped disc end up on the operating theatre. Nia’s situation hasn’t been helped by the fact that the doctors that accompanied us home from Lima left Nia’s MRI scans on the plane. The scans only arrived at Bronglais yesterday morning. Rest and physiotherapy are the doctor’s orders and hopefully she’ll get to see a Neurosurgeon soon.

Many, many thanks to all those involved in helping to get Nia home safely. For everyone else, you’d be amazed as to how many people were involved in completing this task and how many seats in an aeroplane was required. A warning to all of you – when travelling abroad, do not forget that insurance policy!

Up-dates will follow.