Well its a new day and OH is still asleep (I expect he is exhausted too), so I am have a while of peace, drinking tea, pottering around and looking at TP. I shall have to book an appointment at the GPs surgery for next week for the stitches to be removed - I expect the practice nurse will do that and it should be fairly easy to get an appointment.
Ive got to give the bathroom a good clean and soak his clothes in Biotex to get rid of all the blood (good job he was wearing a red polo shirt) - it went everywhere! He had a fall (not sure if it was a seizure or postural hypotension) in the bathroom and hit his head hard on the rim of the toilet and gashed his head. I phoned 111 as I couldnt get the bleeding to stop and he was obviously unwell and the person on the phone asked if the blood was still dripping - I replied that it was still running! There were actual pools of blood all over the bathroom floor, not just drips. I tried putting several sheets of kitchen roll all folded into quarters over the gash and getting OH to apply pressure, but it seeped through in literally a couple of minutes The paramedics took one look and decided that it would need stitching. They got a dressing - extra large, ultra absorbent - but the blood was coming through before he got into the ambulance!
The doctor in A&E was worried that he may have fractured his skull and after he had a seizure they were concerned that he may have had bleeding into the brain so they did a CT scan, but all was clear.