Morning everyone, well what a day i had yesterday. It was like a part of a sci fi series. I rang the dr yesterday as the night before i had a terrible coughing fit and i was coughing my guts up. I said to her that since she said i had pneumonia i hadn't seen a dr and i felt i needed to be seen as i am real ill. So she sent me to a special surgery , but she didn't tell me it was a covid clinic (god was i scared) So off we trot to this clinic on the outskirts of Nuneaton and we was met by a dr in a hasmet suit plastic bootees and gloves, face masks the whole works. She took me in hubby couldn't come in and he was sent home. She checked my chest and said i was very wheezy and she thought i had a very bad infection. SHe sent me to the hospital in a ambulance when we went straight into a covid ward. My this time i was Bloody scared(excuse the swearing) i really was. I was then sent to the x-ray department for a chest x-ray and then sent to a covid ward. I was then had blood taken and a mouth and nose swabs taken for covid(here's that word again) Then it was a waiting game to see the dr. When she came i told her i would like to go home if at all possible. She said she needed to check my x-ray results. Well that showed that i had had a viral infection during the last 10mnths and it had aggravated my asthma and that was the cause of my symptoms. So she gave me a prescription for five days of steroids to calm things down and said i could go home. this was at about 8.30pm and we went to see the dr at about 2,30pm so it was a long time.
Everyone was very kind to me as like all the other patients on the ward we were alone. I was not only a lonely time, but it was a very scary time. Out of five people me and four men i was the only one sent home. No visitors are allowed at the hospital during this scary time which frightened me even more. I was begining to think i was going to die as i have felt that ill. I just hope these steroids do the trick as i am so fed up of being ill. The good to come out of all this is that i am covid free so isolating has been worth it.
I would like to thank you all for your good wishes over all this scary time.
Sorry for the long post.xxxxx
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Gosh Sylvi how nerve wracking for you but thank goodness you now know why you have been suffering so much. I hope you will now recover quickly on the steroids and feel brighter. X
Thank you all very much for your kind words, it is much appreciated. I love you all very much.xxxx
Jeez what a day !!! Very frightening for both you and your husband but on the plus side... you had a damn good check up probably better than your Gp and they have given you meds. A lot of medics won’t give steroids at this moment in time and these are probably the one things that will help🤞🏻🤞🏻. X
I refuse to take them long time for my RA as they pile the weight on me and alter my mood so i was very wary about taking them. That is when hubby has taken the script to the chemist.xxx
Well I do hope you find some improvement after the trauma of yesterday. It's amazing what we have to go through to have anything other than Covid19 dealt with. I can understand your fear. When I mentioned sore throat / mouth to the GP I got all the Covid questions even though common sense told me (and hence them, I would have thought) that it was a drug reaction. Won't it be wonderful when we can have our vaccinations. Rest, take the steriods and watch a loop of films that either send you to sleep or help to keep your mood even keeled. Here's to feeling more comfortable. x
They get taking my temp. and i get telling them i didn't have one and i knew it wasn't covid as i had seen my daughter with a mild dose of it and felt nothing like her i can tell you.xxx
All jumping through the obligatory hoops - sounds a bit like us trying to get on the correct meds for RA. Will be joining you in a restful day. Am rather sore today, hands, feet, ankles and upper neck all giving me trouble. Holding on with just 5mg steroids until my f2f assessment on Weds. x
Shows us all how scary it was for you and all those other folk in hospital. You had good treatment but delivered In a way that must be horrible for the staff as well - you don’t go into nursing or medicine to find yourself in a scifi scenario.
What a scary time sylvi, so glad you got home, I went to my doctors to get blood taken this morning. I had to put gloves on, then tie a mask on my face which I found extremely difficult with the gloves on as they were quite big then put hand sanitiser on. I was exhausted by the time the nurse got her computer on, she was in full ppe and was beginning to steam up her shield as she also walked to the surgery. A very new experience but yours was way scarier than my experienc. I hope the tablets help you. We can relax today now, take care x
Yes, those masks make life very difficult especially if you wear spectacles and hearing aids too. I had bloods taken this morning too and it was a weird experience. Does anyone else on metoject MTX have to provide a sample?
Oh Sylvi. What an awful day. I can imagine how you felt when you discovered you were in a covid ward. At least you know it’s not covid and you have had a thorough ‘going over’ and got steroids.
With a bit of luck they will kick in soon and you will feel a bit better very soon. It must have been absolutely horrifying when you met up with the first person in a hazmat suit.
Hope today is a much better day for you although compared to yesterday’s adventure that wouldn’t be difficult would it.
Love the sweet peas - my favourite flowers - I can almost smell them from here 💐
Poor old you Sylvi......but as usual you sailed through it with your usual aplomb!
But I think I might have done a runner if I suddenly found I had been put in a room full of people suspected of having COVID-19! In fact I’m sure I would!
But it’s a good job you didn’t & now let’s hope you have got the right medication at last.
Thank you all very much. It was the most scariest time of my life. You see these crime scene people all suited up and you think nothing of it until it comes to you and you think WOW i thought i was in the surgery to be experimented on thats how scary it was. Glad to say the shielding has paid off though no virus.xxxx
Glad you got a good going over, I hope you feel better today. Five days of steroids won’t pile the wait on and hopefully you’ll feel like Popeye! Which would be appropriate to go with your sweet pea 😂
When she said you have had a virus it could be you have had covid Virus and this bad cough you have had is the result of that Sylvi. I have had a very bad cough for two weeks and the only place I have been since lockdown is rheumatology for my bloods done. I had a covid test that came back negative but was then told by my Dr that they are only 70% accurate and the symptoms I had where probably it. I have never had a cough like this before. I’m on a two week course of antibiotics and 6 days 30mg steroids after already having one course of antibiotics. I am hoping to get an antibody test when they roll them out. I too was offered to go to a clinic for examination and X-ray but I refused because I already knew it was a covid clinic and if I haven’t had it don’t want to catch it now. They would only have done what GP has done given me steroids and more antibiotics. Sorry for the essay am sat here coughing away on my day 5 of the new antibiotics and steroids waiting for a weekly phone call from nurse to see how I am. Hope the steroids help Sylvi xxx
Well great news that you’re Covid free, that’s a relief, and steroids short term can work wonders so let’s hope you have a restful and progressively better weekend honey. You deserve it after yesterday’s hell! X
Wow sylvi you really are having a tough time of it, but am so relieved to hear you are home and as Ok as can be given the circumstances. Hope the steroids help and you can somehow get back on track. Take care x Love the sweet peas too
Bless you, Sylvi. What a terrifying experience for you and your hubby. I do hope the steroids calm things down for you and that you start your recovery very soon. I reckon you are both in need of a restful day today to recover
Wow! What weird, scary day! Can't imagine how strange and unsettling it must all have been. Glad you seem to have come out of it unscathed!
I know steroids can be one of those things we all dread, but at times they can really help too. Let's hope it's one of those times. Hopefully, if it's a reasonably short course you will manage to escape the dreaded weight gain.🤞
By the way, as an aside, I live in Nuneaton too! What a coincidence. I'm guessing you were at the George Eliot Hosp rather than Walsgave? I think since the 'shutdown' it's been the longest period I've ever had of not setting foot in either of them! I guess that's sort of a bonus .....?😳😉
What a strange way to enter! I'm on the Bull Ring (roundabout where Harmony House and Horseshoes pub are!) so that's probably the other side! When I look out of my window, I get the lovely view of the Maternity Unit in the near distance! (One of the only departments I've never frequented- haha)!!
Sounds like it's all very odd over there at the mo! xx
I know more or less where you are darling. You can't have any visitors with Bob had to go home until he was told either i was coming home or staying in. Thankfully i came home.xxxx
Makes it even more scary when you have to stay there alone too, I imagine. I expect your hubby was worried sick at home too! My friend's elderly mother had a similsr experience there a few weeks ago. No-one could stay with her either. She didn't have covid, but hadto stay in anyway (she's in and out very regularly). Again, she wasn't allowed any visitors. Obviously couldn't be risked.
I've been over to Harmony House on occasion. Into the care home for a couple of residen's meetings a few years ago, and to the flats to take mail that came to us by mistake! We often get waifs and strays turning up here who are trying to find Harmony House!! Though it seemed quite nice over there xx
Yes, it is. It was a good idea to put a little 'drive' upto it so it's set back from the main road a bit. I expect it makes it a fair bit quieter for the residents!
Thank goodness you are not infected by the dreaded virus; definitely alarming that you had all those hours of investigation, and put on a ward with infected folks. I hope you were isolated from them.
May those steroids finally bring you the relief longed for. xx
Wow Sylvi you’re certainly going through the mill pet at least your Covid free 1 bonus,my wife works in a care home and has been getting tested every week now since last week ,better late than never and she’s negative so far take care xxx
Heck Sylvi, you sure know how to live! So pleased you're ok though, well not Covidated anyhow, & hope that the steroids do the trick. Rest up now, I’m sure you'll be well looked after by your dear Bob. x
Well Sylvi, I think there are easier ways to scare the bejeebers out of yourself 😆 Hope the steroid does a quick job and you’re feeling better soon! No return rides! If you want lights and sirens, watch them from the sidelines or wait for a parade! 😘🍀🌷
Oh Sylvi sweetheart. What a time of it you continue to have. What a frightening experience for you too! I really hope the course of steroids help. So sorry for such a late reply. Just playing catch up with messages after a very mixed week. Lots of love as always. xx
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