Hi everyone I hope you’re doing well! Things continued on a similar path for me for a few days, I discovered how I could put on and off the brace myself which gave me a lot more freedom to do whatever whenever, within limitations obviously.
I was getting into a routine and being able to get techniques for doing different things and making things simpler I was still eating more than I normally would but that was ok, I also got a way of being able to carry coffee from the kitchen to where I sit.
I was still getting early stages of fevers and just feeling off at times, Friday I had some visitors around which was nice but just before I got really tired and drained and thought that I would be a complete bore, I enjoyed it at least.
And Saturday my niece, nephew and sister came over to help look after me as my mum and dad were heading out and Mothers’ Day. It was a nice night I stuck on Larry and Marge Go Large which was a decent movie and then just some Saturday evening tele.
During that time though I started getting a fever and it just progressed worse than it had before and just felt pretty terrible, this continued through the night and in the morning I was rough.
And I took the decision to call the hospital as I thought it was now at the point they might try to do something.
I was glad I did at that occasion cause my head was completely gone on Sunday, there was no focus and I was just in complete autopilot. I got there and just all the initial usual checks before anything and then I was eventually moved to my own bay downstairs. I was taken for an x-ray of the chest that evening.
All the usual blood pressure stuff going on which seemed to be the bigger issue to everyone which to me was causing more problems making me feel much worse but you can’t tell them what to do.
Started on strong antibiotics and was just getting all the test done from swabs, bloods, x-rays, CT-scans. Even checking the hip to see if that was maybe infected, the scar did develop and rash around it though but they have marked it and it hasn’t made any changes getting better or worse and seems to be staying the same.
Continue on and on Wednesday I felt pretty rotten, nothing to put the finger on exactly but the heart was playing up, cough was worse, lack of sleep and grumpy and just so tired and sore. I just wanted to roll up in a ball but even that’s impossible to do.
Today though I have felt a lot better, there have been less fevers and I’ve felt like being up and about more than previous days. Downside is that I’ve now started reacting to one of the antibiotics and have broken out in a rash and is getting itchy and a bit drowsy too so they switched antibiotics to see if that’ll help.
I have started eating a bit more today as well but the food is hard to eat, it’s not pleasant and sometime I’m quite thankful that I don’t get hungry.
The icing on the cake with everything though is that my mum is now in hospital and I’m really pissed off if it’s me or this infection that caused it, I don’t know anything about it yet though so I can’t tell, but I hope she get out soon and before me.