I've copied and paste my updates from my Facebook profile below.
Thursday 20th August 2015
Had to bring Amanda back into hospital this morning 😢 Over the last few days, she's not been able to eat any food apart from 6 Jacobs Cream Crackers, which when I checked last, had the nutritional value of a wasp. She's also drinking very little, and what little she is eating /drinking isn't staying down for long. This has been going on for a few days and her anti sickness medication hasn't worked for a while and seeing Amanda suffer so much left me with little alternative, especially after repeated vomiting this morning. There's added complications as Amanda doesn't actually want to come to hospital for reasons I won't go into right now, so getting her in really was a struggle. She's picked up a slight infection and will be having a precautionary scan too. She's on a drip which will provide her with much needed hydration and an intravenous anti sickness which will hopefully be effective. Hope to be able to bring you some better news real soon. She's only 40 yards away from where my dad is receiving treatment so here's a big 'Cheers' to the medical gods to arranging this special treat.
Finally... Time for a poll of you guys reading this. If you are to see a junior doctor carrying out a Google search to check out a medical condition as I witnessed this morning , would you feel a mild sense of reassurance or huge waves of panic?
Friday 21st August 2015
stayed in hospital overnight. She had a CT scan on her head and torso at 2am which has come back clear... so far so good. However there have been complications. She had 2 seizures (9pm and 1am) and has become very confused and disoriented, she also bit her tongue and drew blood and other undesirable effects too. She can't speak the words that she is trying to say(initial thoughts are this maybe the side effects of the operation which we are told could happen) , and she was thrashing about with her arms and legs during a scan so much that she's already picked up Peter Andre as a dance partner in Strictly Come Dancing.
Thing is, this morning, she didn't have a Scooby Doo about what had happened during the night. Probably for the best. She's due to have an MRI scan today so that the neurological team can assess what exactly happened during the night with regard to the seizures, but I have been told that if this had happened at home without the specialist medical team close by, it could have been far more serious. The seizures are likely be a temporary side effect of her recent treatment but we'll see. She's had her first meal for a week today (spinach quiche and chips for you hospital foodie fans).
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