Back in Hospital..

[servewithmintsauce]

So I managed to avoid it since December but now I'm back.

I thought I was doing well (I had normal FeNO3 levels back in March) but hey I guess that is the joy of brittle asthma!!!

I managed to entirely avoid ICU care this time and I'm hoping it'll be a quick stay..but I missed my Spanish AS resit today so...

I actually got blue-lighted to RPH but Chorley A&E has closed so RPH were totally over capacity and excessively busy. They didn't have enough beds. They didn't do any peak flows, they didn't have monitors on me, and they tried to discharge me while I was so tight I couldn't speak. So my dad took me to RBH instead and that's where I am now after excellent care from the resus team yet again.

Currently on MAU but going to be moved to a ward soon. Just had customary first-night pizza with my dad and he's brought me plenty to keep me occupied.

I am currently in the middle of a cluster episode so I'm having daily cluster attacks. I had a particularly bad one yesterday which lasted until nearly midday today. I have my preventatives and my injections and the nurses have been super-resourceful, using sample tube bags with ice in as ice packs! My dad has just gone to Boots down the road to get me some proper ones which won't leak and are a little bigger (hopefully) so...

On the brighter side, one of the women I train with at ice hockey is going to visit me tomorrow I'm so happy, I wasn't expecting it and it's a lovely gesture

But yeah so I'm back..hopefully not for too long.

-- Matt

[Alliecat]

sorry you are back in hospital... and that you missed your exam...terrible that the first hospital treated you so badly.. can't believe they didn't give you a bed or look after you better..... but glad you are now in the right place :D....hope you feel better soon and get out of hospital....if you were nearer I would visit you... I rarely got any visitors when I used to go in (when I lived in London).... everyone was just too busy with their own lives and I never wanted to ask anyone so usually waited til I got home to let everyone know where I had been lol...now I get more visitors with my kids, parents and boyfriend (now that I moved back to Scotland)... so alls good!... take care of yourself x

[starveycat]

Hi Matt haven't heard from you for a while, just took it that you were OK, so very very sorry to hear you are having so tough again, sending lots if hugs

[Beth_19]

hope you are feeling better soon

[Asthma-girl]

Sorry that you're in hospital again.

I hope you feel better soon

[freefaller]

Sorry to hear that. Hope it is a short stay.

[Hidden]

Hi Matt,

Sorry to hear you're back in hospital. Like Starveycat I'd noticed that you hadn't been on the forum for a while; I'd wondered how much of it was down to study pressure.

My younger son (yes, the asthmatic one) missed his GCSE Spanish oral exam, but in his case it was not down to asthma. The day before the exam he managed to break his arm near the shoulder whilst (wait for it) playing cricket - not a match I hasten to add. Dangerous game cricket:-). He was fielding, and he and a chum were getting bored so they started mucking around which resulted in my son (one of the smallest boys in his year) falling to the ground with his chum (one of the tallest) landing on him. It was a displaced fracture so it required surgery to fix it. Fortunately it wasn't his writing arm, but the location (close to the shoulder) did cause issues - as did having to take painkillers. His elder brother thought it was genius. We weren't quite so impressed

Hope you feel better soon.

[servewithmintsauce]

Thanks everyone! I'm considerably better now Not out today but maybe tomorrow, or after the weekend if consultant wants to review me. Just had an exam this morning so I guess I don't get out of those (haha) but things are mostly good and I have my own sheets and pillow as usual, and I'm warming up to my room Having ready meals with my dad in the sandwich bar shortly