I have had a rotten time of health recently. I was taken to hospital on Fri 14 November with a blocked bowel which they drained with a gastric nasal tube. It is a tube that goes up the nose & down into the abdomen. I was there till Monday 17 November.
Only to be back in hospital on the 19th I was back in unconscious this time. 3rd time this year. They got drips in & put a reversal drug in to get the methodone (used for pain) as they thought it might be that.
I didn't wake up on the Wednesday 19 & district nurse came to change my catheter & fortunately we have keys available with a code so she let herself in. She was having trouble with me going straight back to sleep. Another friend came around as I hadn't answered her phone messages on home, mobile or text & we had planned to catch up. She had trouble raising me & ended up putting our puppy on the bed so my bed to wake me up. Sha managed to get me up & had some breakfast & stayed with me till hubby got home late afternoon. She said I was responding but not making much sense & was at the stage where she had to feed me & give me drinks.
When hubby got home I was getting less responsive & couldn't answer him properly so he pressed my personal alarm to get an ambulance to hospital.
The Dr's that worked on me were apparently really good & within 5 mins they were working on me. I finally started to wake briefly about 3am & David had stayed the whole night. The Dr's kept thinking I had taken extra drugs - od'd & I hadnt.
I was in icu for about 48 hours then on a ward. By this stage I had lost use of my right leg so was only allowed out of bed with a nurse or physio.
I was very slow healing, they gradually put me back on most of my med's. Then the rolling Wednesday night the same thing happened. I went unconscious, my breathing was shallow, my eyes were pin prick pupils & the eyes were unrest erupted to light. They gave me injection of morphine to see if I responded but I would go straight back to sleep & didn't open my eyes.
I was sent back to I.c.u. In the high dependency unit which meant I had a nurse at the end of the bed to monitor me. Apparently the Dr's from intensive care were keeping a close eye on & so were pain Dr's.
I came back to Thursday evening about 6pm so lost the day. The dr's gradually put me back on some of my drugs to see what I reacted to.
They took: methodone, Valium, decreased baclofen to 4x25mg a day, had been taking 5.

The Dr's worked out I had toxic septicaemia from some of the drugs I was taon.

I finally got up & walked to the loo by myself on the Monday (this week), & then gradually allow ego walk outside the room too.
The pain clinic put on a new drug (in Australia) parlexia, originally 150mg 2times a day of 250mg but it didn't last 12 hours so they chaged it to 100mg 3x a day so about 8 hours Apart
This is working but I stll have 50mg tramedol Up to 4,times a day for breakthrough pain.

They did eg, mri's spine head & lower spine & found I have deteriorated spine, protruding disk lower spine & also neck which explains the pain &
Restricted movement. I have seen orthopaedic dr & will see them as outpatient when I get an appt.

ThIs has been a horrible time.
I was glad to come home on Friday & resting more comfortably.

Thanks for reading & any responses will be appreciated, especially regard to the palexia & spin disks.