A day I'd rather forget
Well, that was a weird old day! This morning, my care team leader (I'm a tetraplegic who requires 24/7 nursing care) who, along with my GP, was concerned that I was not shifting my second bout of Clostridium difficile so told me I should be hospitalised in order to be put on IV antibiotics.
When pushed for a timescale, she replied a week to 10 days and, as someone who has spent 19 solid months in hospital, the prospect of even more time in a hospital bed was not one I greeted with particular relish.
Several hours later and following blood and urine tests, a gastroenterologist informed me that IV antibiotics don't even work for Clostridium difficile as the antibiotics need to be taken orally so they can digest in the gut along with the harmful flora those causes the debilitating diarrhoea in the first place!
So, after less than 10 hours in hospital, I am now back home with a prescription for twice the antibiotics I was taking and with strict instructions to drink as many of the probiotic drinks of the Actimel/Yakult variety that I could stomach in order to replace the bacteria that the antibiotics are busy killing.
Anyway, I'm extremely glad to be back home to be confronted with only the 24 unread e-mails so I can get cracking on that pile of unwatched discs and get back to normal. I'm extremely grateful for doctors who don't want to keep you in hospital a minute longer than necessary and actually manage to talk sense rather than use all sorts of medical mumbo-jumbo and talk down to you as if you're an imbecile.
Now, which film to watch now?
When pushed for a timescale, she replied a week to 10 days and, as someone who has spent 19 solid months in hospital, the prospect of even more time in a hospital bed was not one I greeted with particular relish.
Several hours later and following blood and urine tests, a gastroenterologist informed me that IV antibiotics don't even work for Clostridium difficile as the antibiotics need to be taken orally so they can digest in the gut along with the harmful flora those causes the debilitating diarrhoea in the first place!
So, after less than 10 hours in hospital, I am now back home with a prescription for twice the antibiotics I was taking and with strict instructions to drink as many of the probiotic drinks of the Actimel/Yakult variety that I could stomach in order to replace the bacteria that the antibiotics are busy killing.
Anyway, I'm extremely glad to be back home to be confronted with only the 24 unread e-mails so I can get cracking on that pile of unwatched discs and get back to normal. I'm extremely grateful for doctors who don't want to keep you in hospital a minute longer than necessary and actually manage to talk sense rather than use all sorts of medical mumbo-jumbo and talk down to you as if you're an imbecile.
Now, which film to watch now?
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(Available for amazingly low price presently in box set and a complete joy to watch, from the Dirk Bogarde's through to the Leslie Phillips. They should at least raise a smile after your rubbish day!)
Oh - and glad to hear you're better, even if it has meant eating loads of those yukky yakults!!!!