Barring a last minute cockup I will be out of here today. I cannot stand another night in this death chamber.
It is really hardwork being in hospital. They tell you uninterrupted sleep is important. In hospital you do not get that. The most you can hope for is 4 hours at night. You are woken up at 12 and 4am for various reasons. By morning you are exhausted.
I have been totally stuffed the last three days. Barely able to do anything. It felt like I was dying. Barely able to move. Could not think. I was in another world. Everything had a funny smell, complete and utter lethargy. Total confusion as to what was happening and what to do.
I felt like I was living in the 60’s too.
As it turns out my blood sugar was off the charts. No wonder I didn’t know if I was in the 60’s or now. I felt like I was in the 60’s.
They are now checking my blood sugar and monitoring it.
This has been the most bizarre experience of my life. I cannot describe how I felt at the time. It was totally surreal. Even now I find the experience totally and utterly surreal.
Finally, the endoscope laxative drug has my bowels working. One step closer to to getting out of here.
I am full of shit. You all knew that anyway but the X-Rays confirmed it. Time for some serious enema etc action. This shall be interesting…
Doctors just popped around. Looks like it just severe constipation causing the pain. They haven’t looked at the xrays yet so it may still be a blockage or something down in my bowels but we will see later today what they say.
They are dropping the IV steroid and switching me to a lower dose of oral steroid. That is a good sign as it means I am one step closer to leaving.
Bloating etc has gone. Man that was painful. Started at midnight, my tummy bloated up and the pain was bad. I was in so much pain I started sweating and shaking. Slowly though it subsided after 4 hours. It is nearly lunch and I feel OK. Helps that I am totally whacked on Fentanyl 
Man this stuff leaves you confused between reality and fantasy land!
Just had an xray of my abdomen to see if anything interesting is going on.
Damn well woke up at midnight with incredible pain in my stomach. Pain score is several million out of 10 
Man, that was some serious bowel pain. Hopefully the turds are a comin’ out!
Another day of IV steroid. Followed by a few days of oral and they will observe how it goes. So no definitive time out. Just depends on how the oral steroids go.
No poops for a few days. The coloxyl is only giving me painful cramps rather than the desired turds. Time for something stronger as I am starting to feel rather bloated.
Dad and Christopher visited today. Livened me up a bit.
Afternoon though was a bit rough in a vague way. Took a 10mg endone and now I am feeling much better. Not sure what was wrong though. Oh well, whatever works to perk me up. At least it gave me an appetite.
An old friend, Shorty, is popping in this evening.
2 litres per day now. Feels like I am drowning in fluid. What a relief.
Had some solid food for the first time in a few weeks. Have been having sustagen and up&go until now. Hard eating when you haven’t got any saliva.
Gotta do this so I can get out.
I have had this for a few months now. A little bit annoying. Checked by the ophthalmologist and all OK.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater
My long distance eye sight is really bad at the moment too. I can read really well close up but long distance as in 5m is shot. Further out it is shocking, people’s faces are a smudge a lot if the time.
First one for weeks.
A bit jittery this morning though. Skin feels a bit dry and sore from this damn air conditioning.
Time for mid morning snack, newspaper and a quick snooze.
Man, took too much endone. 15mg and I was off me trolley. Rather pleasant really. Wouldn’t do it again though.
I had a bad stomach pain. So first of all I had 5mg tablet. Didn’t do anything. So then took a 10mg an hour and a half later. Nothing much happened for about 1.5 hours but then I went all vague.
I was wacked for 3 or 4 hours.
My general ‘wellness’ is on the up. Energy levels improving and appetite getting back to normal.
Still a few gut problems but that too is going OK.
Still have another week in here though. I do NOT want to repeat this again! Better safe than sorry. Or in this case very ill.
I have lost 8kg and a lot of muscle tone, fitness, etc. Nothing which can’t be fixed with some patience and exercise.