Went into hospital on the 3d to have stents fitted to kidneys.. That went OK. Well, nearly.
Came home on the Friday 6th.
Friday night I woke up about midnight not feeling quite right..... Heart was beating at bewtween 110 - 120 per minute. Managed to get back to sleep tho.
Saturday morning the pulse was still high but I didnt feel sick. We went out for a few hours but I started to feel tired early afternoon. Came home and had a rest... had some food but was slowly failing.. Went to bed but early evening I started to shake as if I was cold..... Didnt get any better. Called ambulance....They spoke to an out of hours doctor who said I needed to be in hospital but was concerned that I needed to be looked at quickly and told the paramedics that they were to me to another dept and not admit me to A&E. The other dept didnt have any beds and I was taken straight to a ward....
My wife came up a bit later and nobody knew anything about me..
The ward staff were up in ams because I had been taken straight there and not thro A&E... as if it was my fault.. I told a nurse that I had pain in bladder and stomach and across my back...This pain had all started when I was catherterised ealier in the week. I told her I wanted to "open my bowells" but couldnt because it was causing too much pain in my bladder........and everywhere else.
She said....."If you cant go its because you dont need to" **********
Couple of hours later I did manage to and the pain started ease off a bit.
Wife went home later...... I still hadnt been seen by a doctor.
I was woken later by a nurse who must have lost her winning lottery ticket, crashing the trolley into everything in the room, opening and then slamming shut every draw on her trolley like a spoiled teenager who couldnt find their ipod. Three goes at getting a needle in for a drip.. Blood all over the place. needle fell out shortly after she left.. I got the blame for that because I moved.
Went to sleep... next thing I know is waking up with an oxygen tube up my nose. A double drip in my left arm and a new needle in my right.......
"Did I die or something?" The answer was "probably"
Seems my temperature went to over 40 and I was completly out of it for some time..
Seems it was a urinary infection which showed up all sorts of nasty things.
I must have had that when I was discharged but the blood test I had before discharge was some 7 hours before I actually got the letter of permission to leave...
And now from constipation to the other end of the scale........so from being full of it.........to....
