Finally going home … very briefly 😬

Everyday for 10 days the Doctor came round.

Everyday for 10 days they talked more and more information at me.

Everyday for 10 days they asked if I had any questions.

Everyday for 10 days I had one question.

Can I go home now?

And finally after 10 days I got the answer I had been hoping and praying and crying and desperately needing.

Finally! Doctor 1, the guy I have seen almost every day is happy infection markers are low enough that I no longer have sepsis or any fears of. They can remove my cannula’s and arrange for oral antibiotics and steroids to take over from the IV and send me home ready to come back for out patient appointments and take my steroids, eat a low res diet etc etc.

Doctor 2 also comes around and does a little wee on my cornflakes 🫤 He suggests not going home and instead considering doing the emergency procedure that was discussed a week previous with Doctor 1 of all else failed…

My mind is now spinning, I’ve been sat here for 10 days just waiting, he is working from advice and bloods from a week previous and this doctor has been ‘coming to see me’ for 7 days at this point and has only just got here … who is this guy, why is his advice to different? I request to speak to Doctor 1 again and hear nothing, then I request to speak to Doctor 2 again and hear nothing …

So I go for a cigarette instead to consider my options … lucky my magic thinking sticks always have an idea and the logic says to speak to the ward doctor about what both doctors have said so that’s what I do. He agrees with both, understandably, but then steers towards Doctor 1 aka Doctor go home being the Doctor who has actually been monitoring me this whole time. So there we are 😁.

After 10 days of watching the Discharge Officer in action when someone is escaping, I know that you should expect to see him multiple times during the day, discussing transport, prescriptions, follow ups etc … and I did see him but he was not there for me, he was there for lovely Jane and the transport etc arrangements that she requires to get home.

It is 15:45 so I think I will just mention in passing to him, see what is going on. Jane getting home is obviously still most important right now but am I on that list too?

Discharge Officer says not to be too disheartened and gets on the phone to my doctor … beds are like gold dust so if I am being discharged they will want it asap.

Turns out we were on target anyway … confusion as to being a possible surgical patient on a medical ward being discharged by surgery not medical … who cares! The ward sister tries to show mum and dad out at the end of visiting at 20:00 but then takes a look a pharmacy to see if meds will make it that night or if I will have to wait until the next day 😬

It’s a winner! 20:30 escape from Luton and Dunstable Hospital with a willing and eager get away driver and a accomplice! Straight home for a Cheese Toastie, an hour scratching heads about the sheer volume of medication 💊 before a decent cup of Tea and MY Bed!!!! ❤️❤️