#2329 Saturday 2nd November

Phewie! I'm still not well. Last night is was up with a session of nausea.  Today has been more of coping with no energy.   After the hospital stay, I'm realising that the "no energy" condition has been there for some time.  It's confirming my theory that the ribs injury is tied into the kidney problem. The impact was all in that area.

#2328 Friday 1st November

 I'm not out of the woods yet ..... I'm home but I'm still quite weak.  I spend the day mostly in bed.

My theory is that the problem (that caused the hospital visit) was fixed .... but the internal bleed that caused the problem has not been addressed .... and it would not have been found if the infection had not caused serious problems.

#2327 Wednesday 30th October

Time drags by when you're not having fun 😊 

There are no signs that I'll be going home.... and it's not clear why!

I spend time listening to ABC news radio ..... The broadcast this morning of the speech by Kamala was powerful.... and scary at the same.  I can only hope that Trump is not elected.

At the moment I'm measuring my urine output and I find that I need to use a continence pad.  This morning the nurse brought in some new pads.....  and they are of the pants type and they only stretch as far as my knees!  Try again.

2:10.   I'm going home! Yay!  Kaylia will be very happy.

#2326 Tuesday 29th October

My condition is bouncing like a yo yo.  My temperature goes down to normal and then it goes up again.  There's been no response from the doctors about what their proposed treatment is. The frustrating thing is that I feel the current issues are a consequence of the broken ribs in April.... and the decision makers don't take any notice of my ideas.

Kaylia is consistently just wanting me to go home

Later... the doctors just been and he has no clear answers.  The cultures of my blood don't show any infections in the blood but it doesn't explain why the temperature goes up and down. When temperature doesn't fluctuate I will probably be sent home...  But not today!

The plan is to control the infections..... and after everything has settled, we can look at fixing the bleeding lesion on the kidney.

4.30.  I've just been enduring a long session with an elderly woman in the room across the corridor..... She has been calling out "Can someone help me" in a pitiful voice.  This carried on for a lonnnnggg time.  I went over to see if I could help..... The hospital staff say "she's not in my ward". .... Sheesh. If I were able to help I would probably have been reprimanded.

She's quieter now..

.....and then a canula ( which had just been inserted) fell out when I was in the shower.  I pressed the wrong call button.... and people came running! 

#2325 Monday 28th October

We were supposed to be in Albany for a few days.... but instead I'm in Midland hospital! It seems that when i broke 3 ribs in April, the impact may have damaged my left kidney and the kidney is now enlarged and bleeding. The bleeding causes other issues  the doctors are still working out what to do.

Watch this space! 

One gratifying aspect is that Kaylia is really missing me.

Yesterday I was feeling as though I should be going home.... but the today I'm just asking if anyone got the details of the truck that ran over me!  I feel terrible.