How are we all doing ?

Thank you Garviv.

At the hospital for scan.Had canula put in got to scanning dept and they can’t do it as it’s Iodine based contrast and I’m allergic.Back in the dept waiting to see Dr and find out what happens next.Love Jane xx

Ah the good ole canula..that brings back memories...bad ones..lol

They are keeping it in for now until they decide what to do.Apparently my white blood cell count is high and have just had the clot test repeated.

Poor you Jane, so GRRR they should have known about the iodine allergy. made you really ill before didn't it, if I remember rightly?

Denby

Hi Denby,I’ve had a bad reaction to the contrast in the past and am allergic to Iodine.Waiting for the blood test results and what happens next.It’s busy here.

What a palaver Jane. Such a nuisance they dont check back on records, I suppose it's because they are so busy. Hope you can get a coffee and a sarnie while you wait. x

Hi H,John treated me to a snack in M & S afterwards so that was welcome.The volunteer in the dept was making hot drinks so I had a mug of builders tea there.The clot test was ok so I don’t have to continue with the blood thinners.They think now it’s an infection so I have a course of Amoxycillin to take.They are arranging another non contrast scan to check abdomen and pelvis as I’ve lost weight recently.It’s nice to be back home,it was tiring.Love Jane xx

Thanks for the hugs.When I was in A & E on Friday I was sitting next to a lady with a nasty chest complaint.She phoned her children saying ‘dr says I’m not to lift a finger for at least a week and you will have to help mummy as I have to take it easy’.I could hear the children saying they would be very good and helpful.The call ended and her friend said ‘the dr said no such thing did he ? ‘No of course not she said but my kids are lazy blighters’ It did make me laugh.

Nice one.

But modern society does too readily neglect the power of rest at the times when it is needful. Once upon a time it was one of the strongest weapons in a doctor's armoury. My schoolfriend's Dad might not have had a fatal heart attack in the aftermath of a bad bout of flu in around 1968 if he had not dragged himself back to work, out of sincere motives, but far too soon. We were still at primary school.

Denby