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I had another hospital appointment today where I had to endure 2 hours of laying on my back and an x-ray machine taking photos of my guts every 10 minutes while being pumped full of fluid.  At the end of all that I got to have a scabby sandwich from the WRVS shop.

In the afternoon I met the ‘big man’ consultant.  He and his troup of 3 other doctors came in and sat down and closed the door behind them.

So, we’ve run the tests and they haven’t got any better so its time to have surgery.

Matter of factly like that, no

Sorry but i’ve got some bad news

or anything like that.  Just a bombshell that I was to be slit open and have some guys hands messing around inside me.  Aparently its a biggie too.  I’m probably going to be in the hospital for 2 weeks and then a few more at home before I can move around on my own.

The day?  13th November has been penciled in for this fun event.  To say i’m a little upset is an understatement.

So what has happened to me over the last few weeks to keep me from writing in.  Where to start?  Well as you know I was back in hospital for a week.  During that time I had a tube placed through my back into my kidney.  This isn’t the nicest and most comfy thing in the world.  Almost 3 weeks later and it still hurts when I move around.  It turned out I spent a week in the Hallamshire and then was sent home for a week until the return journey to hospital.  This time I was on familiar ground at the Spinal injuries department.  I followed my instructions to go up to the ward  and as I got there, it turns out that no-one expected me.  A great way to start the day.  After a few minutes of panic, I was hustled down to the day ward and into the clutches of the consultant.  2 hours later and I’d had various liquids pushed into me while rigged up to a computer and still this didnt make anything clearer to the doctors.  Go home and come back in two weeks I was told.

So I go back on Monday for the repeat tests and do I think they will show anything different?  No chance.  This leaves two options that I can see.  Either they just send me home for another 2 weeks or they decide to keep me in again until I’m sorted.  Either option I’m not that thrilled about so i’ll just have to wait and see.

So today I went back to the hospital to see my consultant.  For anyone who is interested, the reason I have such a gap in posting in July is that I was very ill in hospital and didn’t have my laptop with me.  Although I was only in for a week, I was very ill and I was let home on the provision that I did as I was told to by the doctors.  Now this might sound like a stupid statement but i have a track record of forgetting to do what I’m told if I start to feel ok after a bout of illness.  But this time I’m going to give it a go and do what I’m told to.  This is slightly upsetting as today I was told that my blood count it too low and my kidney problem count is too high and I have to have more time off work until they settle down.  Hurrah! i hear you say, but its not.  As explained in my last post I don’t think of this as a holiday but as a time to recover.  Except while I feel fine in myself (and my test results clearly show this is not the case) I’m starting to get an itch to go back to work.

Therefore I’m starting to get cabin fever and I’m hoping that this is the last time that I will hear the words

Stay off work for a while longer.

Until next time…..

So, what a start to the new year I’ve had.  On boxing day I was a little ill; on the few days after I was a little more ill. on 7th of January I was in hospital…  Thats pretty much what happened in a nutshell.  I suffer from a condition which I’m not really going into here, but one of the important things is for me to look after my body well, and over christmas I perhaps didn’t do it as well as I might have.  This resulted in me being in agony at 4am on 7th January.  So off to A & E I went and then straight on a ward for tests for the rest of the week.  It became aparent that it wasn’t quite as serious as it might have been when they decided to send me home on the friday afternoon with strict instructions to take it easy for a week or two.

What am I doing now you ask?  Well of course I took it easy for the weekend and then promptly went back to work on the monday.  Ok, perhaps I’m being a bit stupid but I enjoy parts of my job.  So while my boss is occupied elsewhere I’m working in the office and at home for the ‘week or two’ that the doctors tell me about.

This is the reason that my blog has been a little empty over the last few weeks, but rest assured now I’m back up and on my feet so to speak I’ll be spending more time and thoughts over here once more.