Monday, April 14, 2008

..hospital...hospital and a bit more hospital

..wow
busy couple of days spent sitting on my bottom...and ..sitting on my bottom..and waiting around and ummm waiting around..etc...get the idea

ok so heres the long and the short of it(which we all know means long!sorry if its boring)
..went to emergency yesterday the guy was kinda happy with the cellulitis(on the proviso that it stops spreading soon) and offered to either hopsitalise me or let me do what s called 'hospital at home' ummmmm pretty hard call!but i went home..lol... anyway so the nurse will be coming out to me daily unless i have to go into hospital for something(like today)
..so when i woke up today (at my brothers house who insisted i come stay)i actually realised i was feeling quite a bit better..i hadnt realised how ill i felt the last few days...just put it down to being depressed....sometimes its not til i feel better i realise how crap i was if that makes sense
..so today i had to go into hospital ...ummmmmm it TOOK 6 hours mannnnnnnnn! if i had known it would take that long i would have told my sis in law to leave me
anyway had to register for HITH (hospital in hte home) and im considered an inpatient and if at any time it looks like its getting worse they will set me up at hospital...finally some good news today(yes wait for the slight disclaimer though)
...the most serious part has been the cellulitis...this looks like it is responding to the IV antibiotics as the spreading has slowed way down and it is NOT nearly s red
...so they were really quite happy with the cellulits(which was the scary part)..
..to the not so good news... the stitches are going balck and purple which is a sign that the skin may be dying(had to see the plastics people today) which means it cannot mend and will open up... so on fridy i have an appoitnment to see if i need to book in for a 'procedure' which entails cutting off all the NAUGHTY skin(not quite sure how deep the dead cells go... which would mean MORE rehab..more time in this stupid position... what i really want is it to SCAB....A SCAB IS GOOD GOOD GOOD... please be a scab on friday :(
so back to my brothers...trying not to overeat..but nadia just cooked the most delicious roast of all time..i did decline dessert(no biggie for me i dont really like sweets)
..the boy is going to come over and take me out to dinner tomorrow.. :) he is a very busy lad so it is quite good that we managed to find a night he could pop round..

so at hermies hospital..dying to go home... but todays news was good news with only a small bit of bad news here are the photos to show the improvement
this photo is on sunday-still red and spreading..the lines are where hte infection has spread over a day



this photo is taken today..and as you can see...much much less red..infectionabout the same size..but not as red... no fever 35.5 BP 125/83(which is high for me but they said thats normal when you have infection)

3 comments:

Stu Mac said...

I could say it looks good Jo, but....that would be a lie, BUT at least it is improving...

:-)

Anonymous said...

I am happy you are staying at your brothers and it sounds like a good arrangement with the hospital. Having said that, it still all sucks that this has happened to you!! I hope you are going to write a letter of complaint to whoever is responsible for that chain being on the two posts ?council.

Wishing you a very speedy recovery JoJo :)

JH said...

OH jeez Jojo.