Am feeling slightly better this lunchtime and I even managed some food: a pork casserole with a chunk of pineapple and a chunk of melon for dessert. I hope I continue to pick up as the day goes on.
The psychiatrist came to see me today,and it was good unloading on her a bit of how I an feeling (morose and gloomy as well as being ill). I want to go home just for half an hour or so to clear the kitchen of fruit and food stuffs that will go off and they’re not letting me which makes me really angry. That’s when living on your own really sucks. I’ve found someone who will do this for me but not until Saturday.
Ffosse, I can well understand this is getting you down but it doesn’t help you having negative thoughts, that just makes you feel worse. Try to be a little more positive and tell yourself you are going to get better from this virus and every day is a day nearer returning home.
We are thinking of you and want you to feel better.
I understand others’ wishes for me. It’s just hard when day by day I’m faced by some new complication or other.
Still, at least today I managed to pay my gas and electricity bills using my phone And I’ve ordered a couple of new t shirts after the socks and boxers near disaster.
I had another Temperature spike this evening which I could feel coming on.
Firstly I felt shivery and cold so put a jumper on. The staff gave me paracetamol which didn’t seen to make much difference.
Now I’m back to simply wearing a t-shirt and feel hot.
Still, at least I got a visit from my eldest sister, Anne, and she cheered me up. She’s named as my next of kin so we were talking about wills and practical stuff which isn’t as gloomy as it sounds.
Oh Dreamy I am sorry I am away, and not able to support you properly.
Wills and stuff goodness you are going nowhere. They will eventually find the right treatment. Stay positive my lovely friend. X
Well, I’ve to go for a CT scan this afternoon which will hopefully tell more about my infection. They just don’t know where it is.
And I’ve had paracetamol this morning to bring down a temperature spike, it seems that’s all they can do. The Consultant did say, though, that he didn’t think any of my issues are cancer related which I suppose is a blessing
I hope they find the problem today Ffosse. Try to stop worrying about fruit going bad in your kitchen. On a scale from 1 to 10 of what’s important right now, bad fruit is a minus. Hope you feel better today.
So I had my CT scan which was painless apart from having to drink a litre of water beforehand. Then they injected me with a tracer dye. Perhaps this will be the treatment that finally reveals the source of the infection.
I feel OK,really apart from the temperature spikes which they control with paracetamol.
The CT scan showed very little. The Consultant explained to me now that he believes the infection may lie in the bone of the back, below where I had my operations early this year. That is also an area of the back where I’ve had pain for around 4 years now, just putting it down to all the walking I had been doing. So I’ve to get an MRI of that area. ( He reassured me that I would be suitably sedated before hand.).
They’re also doing an echo ultrasound of the heart as people can have infections there without any other symptoms.
Ffosse mate, I read about your plight with concern and sadness. You have been through a hell of a lot mate and you’re resilient enough to get through this latest chapter, I know it. You don’t deserve any of this and I truly wish you all the best. Take care buddy
Eee Ffosse … I reckon it’s time we got close up and had a hug. :hug:
The MRI thing isn’t so bad. You’ll be fine and if it gets a diagnosis that’s all to the good. Some of these consultants are like ferrets mauling live prey aren’t they, bless 'em.
I’m due to go back for another Digital Subtraction Angiography thingymabob myself soon. Fabulous. I can’t wait. You sound a more patient patient than I am … after one of them you have to lie still and not move at all for 6 to 8 hours …
Cue a miserable Ms Morti lying flat on her back, grumpy and grumbling … nurse can I move yet me back is killing me … Nurse, I’m going to be sick … nurse, I want a tinkle … Nurse! I have to move! think the laxatives are starting to work.
Morti, Ffosse, Nom…big hugs to all and my thoughts are with you SO MUCH … it’s getting so you don’t know which thread to post on!
We need a forum Sick Bay where we can leave naughty treats and flowers and love and good wishes an’ 'at… :hug::grouphug:
Well today was the first day I didn’t wake up with a fever ; rather it was them putting a new 3 hour infusion into a canula. Perhaps they’ve found the right drug.?
I’m not putting to much stock in that though today may be the turning point for me., will know for sure come Monday if I haven’t had any more in infections.
Today my friend, Andy, is going to my house to cleanse it off perishables and put them out. He will also bring me my moleskine with the cash in the back and perhaps a green jersey I’ve never worn. I’m also expecting a delivery from John Lewis to the hospital today - a couple of pricey t-shirt, but if you can’t spoil yourself in hospital, when can you?
I can’t wait. You sound a more patient patient than I am … after one of them you have to lie still and not move at all for 6 to 8 hours …
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