Hospital Stay in the Middle of the Pandemic

continued….. I have only ever stayed one night in hospital before so I am certainly no expert however it seems that this is the main way in which the pandemic has changed. I don’t really know where to start so I will try and cover all of the changes that I realised and recognised.  Visitors – I was not allowed any visitors at all when I was in the ward. This soon became very lonely as I couldn’t have any to come and see me and when you spend a…

1 Month of Freedom!

So after realising that today marks one month out of hospital, I decided to do a quick shift around and a brief update on what’s going on, one month on from coming home from hospital.  It has also occurred to me that I haven’t actually posted about coming home…that’s all to come, my blog is just a little bit like my mind, bits and pieces here and there and published in a completely random order! Apologies but welcome to my life! So I came home a month ago and I have…

Setback or Side Effect?

It would seem that my body is inspired to write blogs at 4am and so it wakes me in various different ways for me to be able to do this. It is 4am on a Sunday morning and I am awake in the hospital because I have excruciating pain in my knees. It is coming to the point where everything seems to go wrong for me, 48 hours on oral medication seems to be the point that my body goes a bit haywire. The IBD team of consultants and people…