Chest Infection

dachshund

Hello DD
we care about you try and rest when you can.
((((((((DD))))))))
joan xx

mig

Morning DD hope you're feeling a little better today and your toe is not too sore.thinking of you and yours .Mig (((())))

dreamdaisy

Morning all, I hope you're all doing better than me. I reduced the steroids to 30mg today (as I'm inhaling them too I reckon I don't need that many) and I've managed to do my breakfast, put out the wheelie bins, hoover the ground floor and clean the kitchen. I'm now back in bed but feeling I could do more. I won't. The toe is sore but OK inasmuch as it appears to be a clean wound and 'im indoors has gone down with my bug. My Ma is still in hospital, she seems to be doing OK but is struggling with remaining 'in touch' with the world. She's hallucinating occasionally too which is unsettling. It's not meds related as far as I can tell but who knows? Her medical team have told me that I am not to go to see her until I am completely better and she will be staying in for the time being as OT and Social Services are going to get together. She is not pestering to come home which indicates to me that perhaps she is beginning to realise that maybe her days of independant living are coming to their end. We understand how difficult that is, don't we? DD

villier

That's sort of good news DD if you have managed your breakfast and some chores but glad to see you are being sensible and gone back to bed, I don't think you could have managed that much a few days ago, so, steroids must be working which is really good news. Poor mum, at least she is in the best place and it looks as though they wont be letting her out until they have a plan of action put together, that must putting your mind at rest, take care DD and keep being a sensible girl, I'm sure you will.................Marie xx

bubbadog

Hi DD, I Haven't been about for a couple of days, sorry you have been very well and hope things are getting better for you. I think my OH would love for me to loose my voice and me visa versa! Fingers crossed things start getting better in your household you really have been tested and come out fighting. Big ((((HUGS)))).

frogmella

I'm glad that you managed to do a few jobs and that you were sensible enough to know when to call it a day too!

You are always there with a kind word when we need you.

I hope things continue to get better for you and that things with your mom settle down soon. xx

villier

Hope things are a bit better today............Marie xx

dreamdaisy

It's a day of contrast here. The weather is everything I am not so (it's bright and sunny) so I'm going back to bed to chomp on more cocos. See you later, maybe. DD

mig

Had to read it twice,thought it said you were chomping chocolate in bed :roll: (((()))) Mig

ritwren

Thank you for your sypmathy DD, it's an awful time at the moment.
DD never in a million years are you to be thinking you've wasted anyone's time going to the hospital. They are only too glad to treat you when they can and help you on the road to recovery. I agree with your quote, steroids are the devil to come off and can leave people feeling very very low. At least they're helping you which is important. I'm sure they're helping old arthur a bit too but don't go overdoing things, you know you'll pay for it.
Hopefully you'll get speaking to the consultant in charge of your Mum. He or She is the one to speak to if you can, or the nurse in charge. Often junior doctors don't know exactly what is planned for patients but hopefully everyone is well informed and can enlighten you soon.
At least your Mum is being cared for while you try to get yourself better.
Take good care, big hugs. R.

dreamdaisy

Thank you Ritwren, you have been in my thoughts as you are indeed going through a very tough time.

I've had my last dose of 40mgs and my voice is fading again. I appear to have grown a sword at the back of my throat which is pricking every time I swallow or try to talk. I stopped the anti-bios as told (I decided that as two out of three instructions regarding them were to stop the majority would win) but I'm now wondering if that was the right choice. I feel awful. No matter, onwards, sideways and downwards seems to be the order of the day so I shall launch myself into it by making another cuppa. DD

dibdab

Hi DD, hope the asthma side of things has settled now, sorry to hear that your throat has decided to come out in sympathy too- seems to me that life with Arthur is a long old battle of compromises in all sorts of ways. Maybe if your throat hasn't improved any over the next couple of days another gp trip is in order?

Hope they're sorting your mum out too, but for now you can't be the one to worry about that- your priority needs to be sorting DD out! As Ritwren was saying it needs to be more senior medics that make the big decisions, the junior doctors are mostly there to cope with day to day medical care-tests, medications etc, and haven't the experience for the big decisions. I know that when my son was a junior doctor(not so long ago) he was usually run off his feet and racing round the hospital trying to get the basics right-junior doctoring is still very much a learning phase in their lives (and often a scary time too I'm told!).

Take care of yourself,

Deb x

dachshund

Hello DD
I hope you will feel better soon. take care
((((((((DD))))))))
joan xx

villier

Hi DD

Saw on another thread that you have another docs appointment tomorrow, lets hope he can give you something to blitz that infection once and for all, keep warm do nothing cosy up in bed and take care..........Marie xx

Numptydumpty

Hi DD, I'm sorry you're still feeling so rotten.
I hope you get something to help, at tomorrow's appointment.
Thinking of you, (((())))
Numpty

dreamdaisy

Thank you everyone. I spoke to Mum today and she sounded awful. I'm feeling ropy and have lost my voice again. I doubt that tomorrow's GP visit will result in anything but we'll see. I think it's just a case of hurry up and wait (to get better).

I have to go and wash up. See you all tomorrow. DD

applerose

So sorry DD, I've only just found this. I didn't think anything else could happen to you but it has. Your mum is being very well cared for and there isn't really anything you can do there so make yourself a priority. Hopefully the doc will be able to give you some more help tomorrow. As for your husband, hmmmm that's men for you. They don't know how to handle these situations so they don't. (((hugs))) for you and your mum.

dreamdaisy

Dont' apologise, Applerose, methinks you've had much nicer things going on in your life to bother with a germy wreck like me.

Despite the steroids and inhalers the whole thing is kicking off again. This 'asthma' is nothing like I remember between the ages of seven and twelve (in fact I wouldn't class this as asthma at all) and my throat is horrid. I dunno what my voice is doing as I have spoken to anyone yet. Time for another cuppa. DD

kentishlady

Hi DD. Have just been reading your latest posts. Am glad to know that at least yr Mum is being looked after. All we need now is for you to feel better too. Do hope your dr appointment helps to sort things out for you. Let us know how you get on and take care. Sending some ((((())))) just in case they can be of help. Beryl.

dreamdaisy

Despite not being a particularly huggy I am grateful for any that are wung towards me at the moment. Thank you.

I rang the hospital, they told me that Ma had a rough night and that they had just taken her down for a chest Xray. Hopefully someone, at some point, will be able to tell me what is going on with her. The nurses are kind but uninformative, I've been told that a doctor will ring me if needed. DD

dachshund

Hello DD
i'm sorry you are so bad and your poor mum you need some good luck but it's a long time comming.
take care
joan xx

Numptydumpty

dreamdaisy wrote:

Despite not being a particularly huggy I am grateful for any that are wung towards me at the moment. Thank you.

In that case (((((())))))
Take care,
Numpty