Category: Hospital
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The road to home … and a tour of my new but temporary stomach landscape.
4 out of 5 of the teams looking at after me gave me the green light to go home last week. Doctors – bloods and obs are good, have been consistently so for a little while, no temperature spikes, they would have kicked me out last week if it was not for the Tissue Viability…
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Emergency, Intensive Care and Beyond
I wake groggy and confused, in the weirdest room I have ever been in. There is only one bed that I can see and I feel like I am tied to it. I zone back out. I wake and Mum and Dad are there. They both look emotional, where am I? It’s bright but also…
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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…
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Death is everywhere …
Each night, alone in the dark surrounded by fear, pain and emptiness, my brain flitted off to two popular locations – 1) Is this it, is this the night that I die? Is this the HOW? My stomach will explode or whatever the hell it is doing? Will it be my Mum or Dad who…
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How it began – Is anybody listening to me???
So going back months, years even, I have had a sensitive stomach … lactose intolerant aka eat pizza at home or with friends and family only 😂 Having a close relationship with the bathroom each morning, lessening as the day goes on with the exception of meal times. It was always just the way I…
My unwilling journey with Crohn’s Disease 