Xmas 2010

Disapointment again! Xmas this year was to be at Kath's.
After all she sayd it is easier for everyone else to get
to their place rather them dragging around FIVE children
which includes a toddler (in nappies) and a new born baby.

It was to start about 4.30-5.00 p.m. but at 2 p.m. I ran
to the toilet for thr eight time in 18 hours and suddendly
started to burn up, the sweat just dripped off me and I
began to hyperventilate and to feel claustrophobic. By 2.30
p.m. I was vomiting into the sink.

I went and woke Cliff up and told him he needed to take me
to the hospital. He went and had a showet and we got there
by 3 p.m.

The triage nurse had to treat two people in front of me and
I got to see him about 3.20 p.m. he took my blood pressure
which was normal for me 125 over 85 but my temperature was
35 which is a little high, but from the time we had entered
the hospital and the air conditionong hit me I gegan to feel
better.

I was given a name tag and told to wait in the waiting room.
At 4 15 p.m. I send Cliff with a list of things he had to do
and to pick up Don's kids from Karen;'s to take to Yallourn
Nth.

After he left I realised i still had the camera and rang and
told him on the way to my place he'd have to come back to
the hospital to pick up the camera as Meg's had no pictures
left on it.

By the time he came back I was in an examinating room and on
a drip. The nurse took a blood sample, she tried the back of
my right hand and of course the vein collapsed almost
immediately, so she went for the crook of the left elbow and
this time was successful. The doctor said it could be
between 2-3 hours before the results were back. Which is
terrible slow! Cliff arrived just as the doctor siad that so
I told him to go and I would ring and let him know when the
test was back. It was 5 p.m. by then.

The test was back by 7.20 p.m. and my white cell count was
not very elavated but there was a small increase in one of
the enzymes from 60 to 100, which ment that something was
going on in my gut!DUH!!! The doctor said there was no need
for meto stay overnight, but I would be on the trip for
another hour.

I rang Cliff and told him that and I would ring when it had
finished for him to come and pick me up. About ten minutes
later Donald rang and made all the kids wish me a Merry Xmas
and thank me for their presents!

I rang Cliff about 7.50 p.m. to tell him to leave about 8.30
p.m. but he walked in just as his phone started to ring. As
the doctor said that she would give me a note for my doctor
and some medication to take home.

The nurse came in to take the drip out when it had finished
at 8.20 p.m. but checked with the doctor first to see if
she wanted to put in anything else first and was told not
it was fine to remove it.

The doctor came in about twenty minutes later with a packet
of antibotics for me but as soon as I saw it I asked was it
penicillin based and she said it was and I told her that I
was allergic and she THEN READ THE CHART AND SAW THAT IT
WAS WRITTEN ON THERE. It took another twenty minutes for
her to come back with another bottle. I reminded her about
the letter, and it was another twenty minutes before she
bought that back but she had said as she left that the
resident doctor would have to see me before I left. The
resident came in ten minutes later looked at the chart and
then said I would need another DRIP with antibodics to
kick start me as it would take awhile for the tablets to
start working.

So the nurse came back in and of course the left elbow vein
collapsed and we had to try the right so I ended up with
all these bruise which even today look awful.

By 10.15 p.m. we were back at Cliff's! Kath had send a
SMALL plate of food for me, but it barely touched the sides,
I had not ended since I had finished the bar be que at Sue
and Allen's on Xmas Eve.