You will
NOT steal my thunder!
Hey ho, I am home after nine days.
Right, woke at 3am on Thursday 2nd October with what I knew from past experience was renal colic. Unrelenting, not spasmodic pain. I had to go to the hospital that morning for my routine blood test as I take warfarin, that is bye the bye. Did my supermarket shopping on the way home, yes, still with renal colic. As Sara knows, I went to bed after lunch as I was so tired, and in pain. Then later in the afternoon I was 'unwell' and as I know that my GP has a session from 4pm until 7pm I phoned and requested that he call me.
He called me between seeing patients and I said "Alex, I really do not feel very well". He said that if
I was saying that I didn't feel well then he wasn't ttaking risks and gave me the telephone number for the out of hours service. I called and a GP arrived about half an hour later. She saw how sick I was and called the hospital to say that she was sending me, then called for the ambulance but when she asked how long it would take she wasn't happy so cancelled it and her driver took us all to the hospital and hand me over in A&E.
Once in A&E and being told of my endocarditis history and that I have two prosthetic heart valves I was pumped with antibiotics and given various tests before being sent to a ward.
Next morning, having been examined by numerous doctors I was first told that I was to go to HDU (High Dependency Unit), that was then upgraded to ITU (Intensive Therapy Unit, or to some Intensive Care) - Sorry Sara, didn't want you worried! I went via ultrasound, then a CT scan then a chest x-ray.
From there I went to theatre to have a stent to drain the massive infection which had been behind the stone. Back to ITU where the woman in the next bed was being woken from her coma after she had something very similar to me.
Sara is now having a kitten.
Later I was downgraded to HDU for a few days, then to a renal ward for the rest of my stay and was in the same room as a woman who also had much the same problem, except she remained in hospital for the last three months after being in a coma, yesterday they operated to remove her stones too. She is fine today.
I decided to come home although I could have stayed longer had I wanted but three sick women in the same bay gave me two hours sleep last night and I want a good night's rest.
I go back on 14th November (my choice) to have the stones removed and will take antibiotics until then.
The hospital know that I live alone and I was given a bag of essential foods, I will post a photo in the Photo a Day later. I am looking forward to eating some later.
The doctor to the house - yes a real house call - will cost me as all our GPs are private here but everything else is free, including the food parcel and the bag of drugs.
I think that is about it.
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