Quite an improvement
Well, things seem to be improving quite a bit even if it doesn't look like it at times and hopefully I'll soon be well enough to travel home. Certainly wasn't three months or so ago when I was taken by car to Leicester Royal Infirmary to see a consultant there. It was a nice journey but I started producing really large beads of sweat and my symptoms worsened for the next few days. It wasn't as if it was a difficult journey or anything .. infact I enjoyed it but coming back I started feeling very tired and ill and things started going wrong. I enjoyed the time out though it was quite clear that travelling still wasn't for me.
I was actually meant to go in as an in patient but there was a sickness and diarrhea bug problem on the ward I was meant to be going into so they said to just come up to the day clinic. Fortunately I didn't catch the bug. A nurse had gone with me and we just went to the clinic saw the specialist and went back to the hospital in Warwick. We were driven there and back by a volunteer.
I'd been told not to walk round too much in the hospital by my consultant at Warwick and finding out what a relatively short car journey could do made me more careful. Not that I could get very far anyway because of the breathing problem. I'd walk down to the hospital shop from my ward stopping to rest in the chapel and then walking on to the shop, the same on the way back.
I just had to find a balance between getting some exercise and exercising too much.
As I said .. things are improving. I can expand my lungs enough now to be able to cough properly and last week managed to walk down to the post office .. though not back again and I was ok for a couple of days. Then the muscles started moving again to an extent where I had breathing problems again as my lungs had to cope with the changes in breathing. It's all such a slow process. Still things've moved on from the time when things were so tight I could just about cough and it was so painful. Now there's much more movement and the pain when I cough is no where as near as bad as it was.
I was actually meant to go in as an in patient but there was a sickness and diarrhea bug problem on the ward I was meant to be going into so they said to just come up to the day clinic. Fortunately I didn't catch the bug. A nurse had gone with me and we just went to the clinic saw the specialist and went back to the hospital in Warwick. We were driven there and back by a volunteer.
I'd been told not to walk round too much in the hospital by my consultant at Warwick and finding out what a relatively short car journey could do made me more careful. Not that I could get very far anyway because of the breathing problem. I'd walk down to the hospital shop from my ward stopping to rest in the chapel and then walking on to the shop, the same on the way back.
I just had to find a balance between getting some exercise and exercising too much.
As I said .. things are improving. I can expand my lungs enough now to be able to cough properly and last week managed to walk down to the post office .. though not back again and I was ok for a couple of days. Then the muscles started moving again to an extent where I had breathing problems again as my lungs had to cope with the changes in breathing. It's all such a slow process. Still things've moved on from the time when things were so tight I could just about cough and it was so painful. Now there's much more movement and the pain when I cough is no where as near as bad as it was.
posted by Zeb at 3:16 AM
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