ILLNESS

Once again taken seriously ill again, it seems that the paramedics got to me just in time, 3 very good medics arrived and everything seemed to happen at once, cannula fitted, ECG done plus blood pressure and bloods for testing taken, then into the ambulance blue lights on rushed me to A&E, things got worse in the ambulance so on arrival rushed into resuscitation where after some time I stabilised, it seems that my blood oxygen was at 65% so very ill, the hospital unfortunately was on Black alert so was on an A&E laughingly called a bed for 13.5 hours my bum was in agony by the time I was moved to the Cardiac Care Unit, put on the machines and a second cannula fitted and so two drips were in place, I was receiving oxygen and antibiotic drugs by infusion,  I was on these machines for 4 days, finally I got a lot better than I was, now the food, they say that food is a major part of recovery, not at my hospital, the food is steamed so there is a lot of water about, the attractativness leaves me sick, I have tried just about everything on the menu not one meal looked appetising, and the taste was awful, most of the time I had a cup of milk and 2 orange juice and an occasional sandwich, I just could not wait to go home, the relief that I felt when the consultant said you can go home was beyond belief, but even then the wait for the discharge letter and pharmacy to get their finger out means 4 to 5 sitting waiting to be allowed to go, not a happy experience.