Today has been full of little ups and downs!
Today I was taken off the saline so that I could go down for a chest X-ray, which as suspected was completely clear. I decided to walk this route as a little goal for myself and although it was the close X-ray unit in A&E, I am very proud to say that with a little help I managed it!
When Tizzy arrived for her daily visited she said my bald head made me look like Bruce Willis and was trying to get me to repeat some of his lines from Die Hard (I won't tell you which ones!!) and said that I might get whisked off to Hollywood, I said it'd be more likely that I'd be whisked off to the mental ward at which point she replied 'At least it'd be a change of sceneray' - I think she has her mothers sense of humour!
Although my mouth still hurts and my speech is a little slurred I started to feel a bit better and even stayed awake throughout all of visiting (another mini achievement!) but this journey of mine is far too exciting to run too smoothly for too long so by the time we were nearing the end of visiting I had developed a rash (which turned out to nothing) and my temperature had reached 38.6 and I had the nurses worried again.
Just when they thought I'd be able to come off the antibiotics I go and worry them with my spiking temperature so the Dr was called, more antibiotics given and plans were mad to get this tooth X-rayed ASAP to see if it should come out. By the time the Dr had arrived my temperature had fallen back into the safe zone (anything below 38C) and was 37.3C, at which point he shrugged and laughed a little! It's nice to know I'm keeping them all on their toes! They suspect it is probably the tooth which is causing all this fuss rather than a more serious infection elsewhere (which is good news) so depending on the X-ray tomorrow I might be one tooth down in a few days! Tizzy has suggested I get a gold one to match my bald head and complete the 'bad-boy look', I've told her to see what her mother says about that!!! (I'll be more Phil Mitchell then Bruce Willis!)
No fluids tonight so I'm hoping to sleep soundly, thank you all for continuing along this journey with me.
Still checking you out every day John...we are still travelling right along with you. You are an absolute star to be able to write your blog in such an amusing and witty way when you are feeling the opposite...
ReplyDeleteHope tonight you get some decent sleep...is Hattie Jacques still watching over you?!(Hope you liked the card!!)...
You're constantly in our thoughts and prayers...
God Bless,
Carolyn n Jonny Giles