Top Tips on Surviving a longer stay in hospital!

This is a blog that I hope you are never going to have to refer to but I have put together my top tips for surviving an extended hospital stay. I have not been perfect throughout my stay I add, but these are the things that really helped me out.  Get a Routine – this one was a major one for me but also one of the most difficult ones to sort out in reality. As a boarding school kid I think I have quickly worked out that I needed…

Medication Update – SIDE EFFECTS!

So if there is one thing that I wish I had more information about it was the side effects of the medications that I was on. The doctors at the hospital kept telling me about how nasty steroids were and how many side effects they would have, and don’t get me wrong, I believed what they were saying but they were certainly sketchy on some of the other details. They told me that steroids can give you a bit of acid reflux kind of thing which is why they were…

Why a Blog?

So as I have written more and more of this blog, I suddenly felt that it was really important to explain to all of my readers why I have decided to write the thing in the first place! I am no writer and am in fact severely dyslexic so it would seem completely against my nature to invest my time into something that I in fact would actively avoid doing at most points in my life. I really try and write in a very honest way and I don’t use…