I am back after having had a particularly nasty time in hospital. I went in on Bank holiday Monday, supposedly for 3-4 days; I ended up staying 2 weeks and being very poorly. They had great difficulty getting into my kidney and punctured me three times; I was also on the table for 3 hours, twice as long as expected.
I was having my kidney stones removed, but they inadvertently perforated my peritoneum. I came round from the op okay, but within 24 hours I kept insisting something was wrong. I couldn't move, it hurt so much I couldn't even cry. I was on 4 hourly morphine, a drip and humidified oxygen for 10 days. After chest x-rays, bladder scans, kidney scans etc, they did a CT scan and found that I was completely filled up with leaking blood and fluid.
I was also spiking a temperature and they kept running tests to find out why, the doctor ending up spiking himself with a needle he'd used to get blood from me, with difficulty as all my veins had collapsed. I was only 2 hourly visits from the doc for 5 days.
I had 42 injections in my bum and 12 in each arm, I am black and blue, my soluble stitches didn't dissolve and I had them out on Friday, so now the wounds have at last started to heal.
I am exhausted, sore and very emotional, but minus 1000's of stones, one small good thing, I lost nearly a stone!!
It is touching to find I have been missed. I am having problems reading as the anaesthetic is still having an effect on my eyes, so not allowed to drive. I willl catch up with all the messages soon, having a problem getting them, so if I've missed a question, forgive me, I'll find it soon!
Thanks again!