Getting ready to go QEBH

Hey Everyone

So yesterday's appointment was positive, Lorraine was lovely & we had a very long discussion about my past & current symptoms. She gave me a thorougher examination.

Of my body, my breathing, pressed on my left kidney & I cried!

We're starting from scratch.

I met a lovely dermatologist who examined my lesions, & decided to take 3 skin punch biopsies from the same ulcer/lesion. Diagnostic tests for Vasculitis/SLE. Immunofluorescence

So I have 3 stitches, removal in 2 weeks. This lesion is different to the rest.

So it's VERY sore today.

I had lots of different blood panel tests.

I gotta say the nurses are amazing at QEBH, very welcoming, funny, I felt very comfortable & at ease.

Lorraine has ordered for these procedures,

Endoscopy

Nasal Endoscopy

Abdominal Ultrasound

E.N.T sinus scan

Awaiting for my Cardiology results from Cheltenham general hospital, if she's not happy then she will arrange for it to done in Birmingham.

I'm due to have all this done over the next few weeks. I'm due to see Lorraine again in 4 weeks time.

I've asked if I can be put to sleep or sedated for both Endoscopies as I'll panic too much. I can't swallow tablets due to my gag acid reflux can barely swallow food at the moment

I had one back in 2004 & it was horrific!

I was asked if I have been to any tropical places or if I have ever been stung or bitten by an insect and it clicked !

Back in 2008 I was on holiday in Spain & was stung on my left buttock cheek by a scorpion. We flew home the next day & I was very unwell, I couldn't sit down, I was sweating profusely, I had the shakes was being sick.

As we landed I noticed I kept loosing the sensation in my leg, & I had a black line from the bite moving down my leg I couldn't walk without holding on to something. I rang my dad & he was already waiting in the car park.

We drove home stopping every so often so I could get out and move about. Don't know how I lasted..

I know at the time I should of just gone to any hospital but I am so stubborn !

Arrived home I couldn't take it any longer. I went straight to the hospital, where I thought I would be given some pain relief.. naive.

They rushed me straight into surgery.

The sting was still imbedded in my skin. Which formed a large abscess, the large instrument reminds me of what they use during a punch biopsy. But on a big scale. Like a apple corer. I had a very large deep hole in my cheek that needed to be packed every day for 3 months. I have to say I would of rather of gave birth. It was the worst pain I've ever had !!

They said if I'd of left it another day i wouldn't of made it.

So I'm wondering.. could that of caused all these problems ?

I didn't think of it till yesterday it was such a bad experience.

So all in all it was good and I know that prof Lorraine Harper is gunna do whatever she can do get some answers & a diagnosis.

My partner was a bit disheartened when I told him the news that I was coming home & had to wait for appointments in the post to go back to QEBH, I guess he thought it wouldn't be months of waiting again.. but I said There is no such thing as a magic wand. It's gunna take time. Rome wasn't built in a day. I know that I've got a great specialist now & many more to meet over the next few weeks. I'm having tests I've never had before, so it's a new path & I know I'm gunna get the answers I need. X