10am...... There're getting ready to move me out of the ICU and up to the ward. I'm told that I have sit..... stay out of bed.
This whole rigmarole tells me that I will be well advised to do a serous exercise program. I'll use the benefits available from our health fund. There's a gym not far along Guilford Rd.... it should be convenient.
10.15 am..... Sure as eggs if I get involved in something, they will give the order to move.
1pm ..... The transfer is a right shemozzle! We got the ICU transfer all done correctly..... but the receiving ward is in a bit of a mess. So I'm sitting in the ICU room..... just parked there till the ward is ready.
2pm..... I have been successfully transplanted from ICU to a normal ward. .... and boy have I been spoiled in ICU! ICU is like a 5 star hotel..... personal attention 24/7. Now I have a nice room, shared.... stale biscuits..... Phew!
The biggest issue at present is that the doctors say that after the acute pulmonary odema, they insist on me using a CPAP machine at home..... and the machine that I have is old and dirty! The nurses spent hours trying to resurrect my CPAP but they can't get the mould out. They say that I have to buy a new CPAP..... and I have no $$. HBF can pay for one but I have to buy it first..... then claim a refund.
The doctor's say that I can't go home till I have a CPAP..... and I want to go home.
I might explain to HBF and see if there is another way..... Except that I can't find any way to send a message to hbf! Amazing.
4pm.... Showers and toilets are communal. I kid you not! The bathroom is 1950s style. Only 2 showers and 2 toilets for the whole ward.
This time of sickness was easy to manage in ICU.... but this is pretty amazingly bad. I feel sorry for the staff in these working conditions.
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