Tag: hospital

One more night…

Because of my shortness of breath this morning, the doctors want to keep me in for another night just to make sure it’s nothing serious. They said there’s no clot or signs of infection but they want to be safe because of my heightened risk of infection. The joys of being on immunosuppressive meds.

Feeling better but…

I was short of breath this morning so they did an ECG, chest xray and took blood from both vein and wrist artery – one of the most painful medical things I have ever experienced. They still need to review the xray but my blood oxygen and everything is fine. I think I may have just overdone it this morning because I feel fine now. I just hope this doesn’t mean I’ve got to stay another night.

News!

I’ve just had the doctor come round and they’ve decided to put me onto humira, starting with four injections today. They’re also going to change the steroids I’m currently on – which I hope is only whilst I’m in here and won’t be yet another eight week course. Provided it all works, I should be home by Wednesday.

Feeling a bit down… sorry

Been in the hospital for almost a week now and, I’ve got to be honest, I don’t feel much better. I’m eating more, at least, but that’s down to the steroids boosting my appetite. Nothing else is working and I’m feeling so tired all the time. All I want right now is to feel better so I can go home and sleep in my own bed. Sorry for the early morning sad feels but I just needed an outlet for how I’m feeling at the moment.

Feeling pretty fragile this evening; they forgot to prescribe me my lunchtime meds so I ended up not taking them (even after I mentioned I needed to take them) and now I feel bloated and uncomfortable. I’ve told the nurse so hopefully they give me something to help, and with a bit of luck, I might get some more sleep tonight too.

So, every day this week the nurses have turned the lights out and pulled the curtains for an hour or so in the afternoon for a “quiet hour” so patients can rest. Usually during this time, I stay on my tablet. Maybe listen to a podcast or two (Welcome to Nightvale being the current favourite). Today, they didn’t do this. And I feel I could have done with an hour or so nap. Ah well, hopefully it means I’ll sleep better tonight.

I got a visit from my aunt early today too, which was nice. Looking forward to seeing my parents this evening, and my fiance said he’d be round tomorrow afternoon. Mostly though, I’m looking forward to going home but I don’t think that’ll be anytime soon.

Sunday morning

I think I slept a little better last – in that I didn’t wake up to the lady next to me trying to get out of bed and go home at three in the morning.

I’m still experiencing some discomfort from my flexi yesterday morning so the nurse recommended I go for a wonder to try and shift some of the gas still trapped in my gut. It’s a shame because it’s wet and cold out today where as yesterday (when I was too tired to leave the ward) was nice and sunny.

Speaking of the flexi, I spoke to the out-of-hours doctor last night and results are back saying nothing abnormal (for me) so the usual inflammation is present but nothing dangerous. They have to wait until tomorrow though to get any decisions made on my treatment so it’ll probably be a quiet day today.

My aunt might come to visit later, and my parents will too, which’ll be nice because I don’t get to see her often. Other than that, today will likely be filled with me playing mahjong on my tablet. It keeps me somewhat mentally active and gives me a great distraction from everything.