Hey everyone, hope you’re all doing well. I’ve not done too much but a few things have happened, it’s been a busy few weeks with appointments and doing this, that and the other. Got the car fixed up which could have all been done in the one day but it all got a bit messy with lack of communication which ended up being 4 days over a two week period and a complaint made and a nice discount on the work that needed done so I’ll not grumble about it too much. Although I could have done without the hassle.
My leg has continued to get gradually worse and can be pretty unbearable at times especially when it’s getting close to when I take my painkillers as they’re wearing off, this morning was quite evident of that. I left early to get things done and out of the way but I left so early it was too soon to take my meds and because I didn’t, it took me longer to do what I needed to do and was at least an hour longer than I was expecting to be. I was struggling to walk by the time I got home to take them. I got everything I needed to sorted though and now I can relax and not do much for a few days now.
I haven’t been getting as light headed and dizzy, I’m getting used to the lower blood pressure but it is pretty crap that my arms and legs get cold, even though the house is warmer than what it would be in some summer days.
I do like how my head is at the moment though, most of the time anyway. I’m more chilled and laid back, and I don’t feel as if I’m in as much of a rush to do anything. Dodling along and just taking my time, not that I was ever really in much of a rush beforehand.
Things weren’t too bad until Monday, I was turning my chair round to be more straight on to the tv and I felt this massive clonk in my sternum and I just froze to find out if it was my heart or bone… after a few seconds I was ok and then I moved a little and there wasn’t any pain. I wasn’t going to do much of anything and stood there a bit longer just to be sure, then I got woozy, light headed, with a cool sweat starting and felt a bit nauseous. I sat down for a for it to settle, stood up and the same outcome. I felt around my chest and there wasn’t any obvious damage but the third rib down on the left was a little tender but not noticeably sore.
After a while I tried to get up again, it was a struggle I couldn’t move my arms certain ways without an incredibly sharp pain in my chest but if I didn’t move I was ok, it was all very similar to when I fractured my back. Any time with my back it didn’t start too bad and took a couple of days for it to peak. I was expecting something similar with this.
As the day went on it got gradually worse and with it being in the chest, I thought it might be best getting it checked out, plus everyone I told wanted me to get it checked out. I was very reluctant to go to hospital though, mostly because of all the problems I’m having I felt that I would be kept in. Despite not really doing much, I really didn’t want that to happen and I know it would slow down any recovery.
By the Monday evening I was feeling quite sorry for myself and my head started to get really sore, quite sure it was just a tension headache but it persisted after taking extra pain killers and through to the next day. Normally some paracetamol sorts it out pretty quickly. I tried some more on the Tuesday and it didn’t settle it at all and that made me make the choice to go to A&E. I phoned hospital to let them know and to potentially go there instead where I would feel more comfortable but they said to go to A&E, so I did.
I got there about 6 and just over an hour later I got in to triage to get my blood pressure taken and to explain what was wrong. About 45 mins after that I was sent for an ECG. It wasn’t overly busy and no one being an ass. A short while later I was given the printout of my ECG and told to go to another place, the ECG said about my low heart rate and weak left ventricle which I’d already told them about and already getting treatment for, but when I got to see a doctor who was able to see my medical history actually paid a bit of attention to what I was saying. With similar thinking to me; that it was possibly a fracture and nothing more he sent me for an x-ray, although he did send me to the wrong place and past where I was going to go, to have to walk back. As I hadn’t taken my tablets before going and sitting in the not-so-comfortable seats I was getting sore and struggling to walk.
They normally don’t check for fractures there and normally send people elsewhere, he embellished a little on the form and as I’ve had a couple of clots before the doctor put that on the form. When I got back he brought me in straight away and told me about the results. There was nothing visible, it could be hidden and if it is anything it’s probably a fracture or quite a fine one. He asked me about pain relief but as I’m already on loads there wasn’t much more he could do, I just needed the results of the bloods that were taken but he wasn’t expecting anything from them as I’d had them done the week before anyway, he told me to go on home and that they’d phone me with the results.
On the way home I got the call and they were all grand. Despite just sitting around most of the time I was shattered, I finished at hospital about 10ish, I went to my parents for a while and wasn’t home till after 12. The next day I had the dentist at 9 and getting stitches removed at 2 so another long day waiting around.
With only getting about 5 hours sleep a night it’s quite draining when I do have to do anything. At least now I can go into a bit of a hibernation mode after a few weeks of being quite busy. It would be nice to be able to do the odd thing, like even getting to the pub but I just don’t feel comfortable doing anything with the way things were never mind with the added factor of a sore chest on top of a sore back, sore leg, low blood pressure, lack of sleep, light headed and coughing, just enough going on and most of the time I just want to roll up in a ball but even that hurts. Don’t think there’s any way I can sit or lie down where there isn’t something sore even when loaded up on pain killers.
Hopefully by the next time I write something things will have settled a bit, until then... I have the prepatch for the new WoW expansion to disappear into.