Just as things started to look up and i was feeling a bit positive i ended up having a knock back like nothing i have ever had before. As if its not bad enough suffering from an incurable illness i have not got some kind of big infection that has so far dumfounded the doctors. On Thursday last week my bowels stopped working completely and i just couldn’t go to the toilet. Thinking it was just a bad case of constipation through all the medication i started to take laxatives and as mentioned in my previous blog i started to feel better as the bowels opened on the Sunday and started to empty. I had a feeling like i had been poisoned on Monday morning and by the afternoon this eased away and i was feeling a bot more healthy and started to get better.
Then on Tuesday morning i woke up and noticed my ankles were swollen. As i reached down and was massaging my leg i noticed that a thumb print from where i had pushed into my leg had stayed there and the skin didn’t level out as it would normally. I then tried it again and when i pushed in the indent would stay there so i ended up ringing the doctors and making an emergency appointment first thing Wednesday morning. After waiting to see the doctor and suffering in the waiting room as sweat was pouring off me and i was feeling very dehydrated i was called in to see one of the locum doctors. I had done a urine sample upon arriving at the clinic so they could check for any problems and believe me when i say it took a while just to fill half a vile let alone the whole thing.
When the doctor tested my urine his face dropped and i started to worry a little he then walked over and asked to listen to my heart, He told me my heart rate had increased and my urine was showing signs of an infection even though it wasn’t discoloured or painful when trying to pass it was just hard to push out. I explained to him what had happened and the pains i was getting in my back that i thought was from the lump i have. He then told me he needed to do some urgent blood tests and called the reception who in turn rushed me through to the nurses room and took my bloods to be whisked off for testing. I was told to go home and if i feel any worst come straight back and to start a course of antibiotics for 2 weeks.
I have rung the clinic and they have told me my bloods are ok but they need to discuss my blood count the next time i am in in 2 weeks what ever that means so i am no closer to getting cured or finding out what is wrong with me. Last night i was constantly waking up with chest pains and then when i got up i continued having chest pains up until lunch time when it eased off. I know i have some kind of infection but we don’t know what it is and why it has caused me to swell up like a balloon and why i feel so bad. infections can cause havoc with your body so it could all ease off when i finish the course i just have to wait and see so fingers crossed the antibiotics will do the trick. Lets hope i can get well over the next 2 weeks and then i can go fishing as i have missed out on so much this year i need to make up for it.
