Me and my new best friend

Here we are again back on good old D9. I now have a new best friend (sod Oramorph) my catheter. I'm drinking and weeing to my hearts content. At least certain things are acceptable when you are ill. I just hope I can re-train my brain for when I return home and don't start weeing in bed there!!

I came back to D9 on Friday evening. Having had a pain under my shoulder blade feeling like I had been shot. I crawled to the GP on Friday afternoon and he referred me as an emergency to EMU at West Suffolk. Having dwelled on that decision for at least 30 seconds Susan drove me towards Addenbrookes calling them on the way to book my usual bed! They were happy to have me back and I settled in straight away.

Whilst sitting here with my feet up on Saturday, while 4 of my best friends and Susan worked like trojans to put up Ledley's new run in the garden, I developed a bit of a temperature. Actually a very large temperature caused by sepsis. ((Sepsis is a life-threatening illness. Your body's response to a bacterial infection usually causes it. Your immune system goes into overdrive, overwhelming normal processes in your blood. The result is that small blood clots form, blocking blood flow to vital organs. This can lead to organ failure. Babies, old people and those with weakened immune systems are most likely to get sepsis. But even healthy people can become deathly ill from it. A quick diagnosis can be crucial, because one third of people who get sepsis die from it) (quoted from a website obviously not my words))

It was touch a go for a while there but thankfully due to an amazing Doctor who stayed with me all night and all the wonderful nursing staff on D9 I am here to tell the tale. My kidneys have been a little compromised but they seem to be working again now, my liver is now having some attention due to the massive input then output of fluids given to me. The michelin man has nothing on me!

Anyway, I managed to have a shower today with Susan's help, changed my clothes, changed the bed and I feel like a new man again. That and 3 pints of blood! Still having the fluid but feel so much better.

My children came to see me last night which was just amazing. It was so lovely to see them and the best tonic out of all the drugs I could have. I miss them so much even more so now I am not well.

Unfortunately, yesterday saw the loss of a friend of ours to cancer. She was only 18 and was diagnosed last Summer. On the day of our wedding we heard she had been given the all clear but sadly it was not to last and after a terrific fight she lost the battle and passed away. It makes me so sad to hear she has gone she had a lot of life to live it saddens me very much. I only met her on a couple of occasions but she impressed me with her strong will. Lets hope she is in a better place she will be sadly missed.

I would like to thank all of you for your wishes and anyone who didn't know I was in here again sorry but thats why we write the blog. Susan doesn't get time to call you all and I am just too tired. I would like to say a huge thank you to Del, Andrew, Simon and John for their time and effort with the dog run which I think looks wonderful (from the photo) and will make our lives so much easier. Ledley apparently likes it as long as his football is in there!

So for now I am going to sign off til next time. We will be posting the updates as they come. Oh and by the way the Radiotherapy has been cancelled for today but hopefully may start tomorrow. To all of you who have offered lifts thanks, if we haven't cancelled you yet sorry you were overlooked but as you can see its been hectic lately! Susan will let you know if we need lifts for the remainder of the treatment.