You don’t get a day of rest on a Sunday when you are in hospital lol. The nurses still come in to do their observations regularly at change of shift. The doctor’s still do their rounds visiting all the patients in their care. The hospital still buzzes with day to day activity.

After being on a clear fluids diet since before Easter until today, it’s nice to be eating actual food again. (I do recommend the jelly though, just saying). My Low Residue diet that I am on now, after being released by the Colon/Rectal Team returned me to real food and the Low Residue diet, rather than the Ward Diet, so that will be friendlier to my easily upset stomach as there are foods that I still am not able to eat. Anything oily, greasy, fatty, too sweet, too acidic, fried, gives me issues with dry retching and sometimes vomiting as my stomach can no longer handle those foods. So my lunch of chicken, rice, gravy, carrots and cauliflower was absolutely delicious. There was a bread roll as well to go with it and for dessert, vanilla custard, which I only had some of the vanilla custard as that was too sweet for me.

The doctor who saw me this morning doing rounds, he asked me if I would help in participating with a program in talking with student doctors who would ask questions and then do an exam afterwards. I was thought of as I am a “complex patient” having multiple health issues and I said that I would be willing to help. These are student doctor’s doing their examinations for medical school and if I can help them to become better doctor’s and I can help them learn from a human perspective and not just from what they learn from a cadaver, then I’m game.

Had some “sister’s from other misters” visit this afternoon, that was a wonderful time chatting and catching up with them, as always.

The doctor’s are taking me off the antibiotics for the infection on my legs as I’ve been on intravenous antibiotics for a week now and they don’t want to affect the cells that have good gut health and create problems there, so they will now allow the body to do it’s thing with the infection.

Daily blood tests have been a norm as well. Being on blood thinners though, I’m bruising easily. My veins are offering a challenge as well to anyone taking blood because as soon as they sense a needle coming towards them, they move lol. The last cannula they put in my, which is my third, they had to call in their Cannula Team with the ultrasound machine and use that to get it in. 3 doctor’s tried and failed but not the experts last Thursday.

I still need to ask the big questions but since this is a new diagnosis, those questions will be answered later.

Welcome to the roller-coaster that is currently my life, if you are reading this.

Until next time

Kaye