I got into A&E and have to say I was left for quite a while without any sort of pain relief or anything. After a little bit of me drifting in and out of sleep (I was so exhausted by this point), I was seen by the doctors who took the history from me. I had been having bloody diarrhoea for 11 days by this point and I was exhausted. A&E at this point were brilliant. I was hooked up to a drip because my potassium levels were dangerously low,…
It was a fine Sunday morning, I had just got up and out of bed to walk the dog, when I suddenly felt an urgent need to go to the toilet. This was a little weird as I’d already been for a wee but I like needed to go. I rushed quickly to the downstairs bathroom and DEAR GOD what happened there was atrocious. It was like a scene out of a horror movie. As the dog scratched at the bathroom door trying to get in to see me, I…
When I arrived I was told that I would be put on IV steroids for 3 days in order to try and get on top of the inflammation in my bowel. This caused all sorts of problems because I apparently have very few veins which are any use and so in 7 days I went through 7 cannulas as they would either blow and be useless or it would get too sore or fall out. The steroids worked miracles for me and within 3 days they were confident that they…